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Peter Watson is an intellectual historian, who writes big, ambitious books. His previous work, The German Genius did an admirable job surveying the extraordinary flo- rescence of German intellectual thought from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It was an accessible, although lengthy, guide to not only the great names—Goethe, Gauss, Kant, Einstein—but also managed to include a host of relatively minor figures, while making sense of the whole.

In The Great Divide , Watson sets himself an even more daunting task: he tries, by tracing human history from origins to the early modern period, to account for why the New World North, Central and South America has diverged from the Old. Like the German Genius , then, The Great Divide is necessarily a work of synthesis, pulling together scholarship from a host of disciplines: anthropology, comparative theology, archaeology, climatology, biology, geology and history.

The causes of the Great Divide are as much natural as social. To this extent the book is an argument about global environmental history as it relates to grand, large-scale trends in human history. UCL Discovery. Enter your search terms. Downloads since deposit. Download activity - last month. Download activity - last 12 months.

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