Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human History by Ernest Gellner

Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human History

Ernest Gellner

288 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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"Philosophical anthropology on the grandest scale. . . .Gellner has produced a sharp challenge to his colleagues and a thrilling book for the non-specialist. Deductive history on this scale cannot be proved right or wrong, but this is Gellner writ...

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