What is the most important human idea of all time? Is it the harnessing of fire, the invention of the wheel, or the concept of God? Peter Watson's dazzling history of human thought proposes an answer to this and many other questions. From the first stoneflint tools and the earliest languages to the great scientific discoveries of the 20th century, Ideas: A History is a fascinating insight into the development of human thought. Yet how much do we know of the ideas that were at the root of these events? In this acclaimed and unprecedented work, historian and archaeologist Peter Watson gives us a new history of the world, by explaining the ideas that have shaped civilisation. We are all familiar with history in terms of wars and revolutions, victories and defeats.
1,152 pages with 34 pages of colour and black & white plates.
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