After Eden: A Short History of the World Chasteen John Charles
After Eden: A Short History of the World Chasteen John Charles In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores…
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After Eden: A Short History of the World Chasteen John Charles
In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence of the timeless phenomena of humanity's inhumanity to itself. Why has it been so prevalent throughout our history? Where did it come from?
Chasteen argues that to do so, we must understand our shared past. And, most importantly, can we overcome it? While much of that past is violent, we can look for inspiration from major periods when we strived to live more cooperatively, such as our early foraging periods, to the creation of universal religions and ethical systems, the birth of the ideas of individual liberty and freedom, the rise of socialism in response to the massive excesses of global capitalism, the civil rights and decolonization movements of the twentieth century, to the environmental and social justice