Humans - by Ted Farmer (Paperback)

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Book Synopsis Written by a Stanford- and Harvard-trained historian, Humans: The Story of Our Past, The Challenge to Our Future reveals that historical change has been accelerating from one period of human existence to the next, suggesting that we must move beyond organizing at the nation-state level to adopt a global, species-wide perspective. Ted Farmer, who taught history at the University of Minnesota, organized the Center for Early Modern History and a Center for Global Studies, and initiated a comparative world history course sequence and an interdisciplinary global studies major, has spent decades studying how what we were has had a direct impact on who we are. Rejecting a Western or …