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We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, woman’s rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognition.
Sweeping through the last thousand years of human development, Human Race is a treasure chest of the lunar leaps and lightbulb moments that, for better or worse, have sent humanity swerving down a path that no one could ever have predicted.
But which of the last ten centuries saw the greatest changes in human history?
History’s greatest tour guide, Ian Mortimer, knows what answer he would give. But what’s yours?
Sweeping through the last thousand years of human development, Human Race is a treasure chest of the lunar leaps and lightbulb moments that, for better or worse, have sent humanity swerving down a path that no one could ever have predicted.
But which of the last ten centuries saw the greatest changes in human history?
History’s greatest tour guide, Ian Mortimer, knows what answer he would give. But what’s yours?
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Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England and The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies, and numerous scholarly articles on subjects ranging in date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize (2004) and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.
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"I loved this book... It will enable you to understand your past, your place in it and that of your ancestors as never before. A modern classic" -- FIVE STARS, James Delingpole Mail on Sunday "Mortimer is an entertaining guide on this superb time-travel journey of human innovations" -- Julia Richardson Daily Mail "An ambitious study of the last millennium" Evening Standard "Provocative and enjoyable... Almost every page of this engaging book sets your mind racing" -- Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times "An excellent romp through the past millennium of British (and particularly English) history... Highly entertaining, well written and packed with lively characters and surprising facts." -- Ian Morris BBC History Magazine
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