Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History  

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"So our position is “materialist” only in the sense that it assumes and claims that each of the three crucial productive bases — hunting/gathering, agriculture, scientific/industrial production—bestows on the societies which use it radically different ..." --Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History - Page 20

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Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History (1988) is a book by Ernest Gellner.



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