剧情简介："The Rise of the West," winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that fr...(展开全部)
作者：William H. McNeill
出版社：University Of Chicago Press
ISBN：9780226561417
