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Milestones of civilization / Linda Blandford and Peter Davidson.
- Title
- Milestones of civilization / Linda Blandford and Peter Davidson.
- Author
- Blandford, Linda.
- Publication
- London : New Holland, 2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Davidson, Peter, 1957-
- Description
- 192 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
- Summary
- What do we mean by civilisation? What are the accepted norms of a civilised society and how have they come about? From the domestication of animals to the concept of zero, the first public works programme to bacteriology, the development of ritual to the idea of the museum, this book surveys important milestones in the history of civilisation.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-186) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781847730657 (hbk.)
- 1847730655 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 271774541
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library