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23 April 1943 (age 81) Birmingham, England. Academic background. Alma mater. University of London. Peter Frank Patrick Watson (born 23 April 1943) [1] is a British intellectual historian and former journalist, now perhaps best known for his work in the history of ideas.
Aug 14, 2014 · Watson uses both archaeological and genetic science secondary sources to tell his story, treating the latter with sensible care and balance. It is interesting the extent that these two specialties, one old, one new, have displaced comparative linguistics, the evidence from which Watson also addresses, as guides to ancient pasts.
- Jon Agar
- jonathan.agar@ucl.ac.uk
- 2014
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Sep 26, 2006 · “Ideas”, by Peter Watson, is a remarkable book, and not one to be approached lightly. At 800+ pages it is encyclopedic in content. Rather than being organized alphabetically, it is organized around 36 broad ideas, each with its own chapter. It is well indexed, with one index devoted to names and places, another to ideas.
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Jun 25, 2013 · The Great Divide compares the development of humankind in the Old World and the New between 15,000 BC and AD 1,500. Combining the most up-to-date knowledge in archaeology, anthropology, geology, meteorology, cosmology, and mythology, Peter Watson’s masterful study offers uniquely revealing insight into what it means to be human.
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Indiebound. Powell’s. Walmart. In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated.
Peter Watson was born in 1943 and educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome. He was deputy editor of New Society and spent four years as part of the 'Insight' team of The Sunday...
Peter Watson is an intellectual historian, who writes big, ambitious books. His previous work, The German Genius (2010) did an admirable job surveying the extraordinary flo- rescence of German intellectual thought from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
