EPOCHS AND FRACTURES. BRIEF SKETCHES
Keywords:
human history, epoch, societyAbstract
Human history is rarely a smooth, linear process. It unfolds as a series of ups and downs, as successive epochs separated by catastrophes – political, economic, environmental, cultural. It is these faults that give the historical narrative its dynamism.
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