How Should We Understand the Deep Human Past? Interview with Professor John Hawks

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he Atlantic World is one of the major concepts in academic history, a way of linking together all the various places around the fringes of the great ocean during a time of extraordinary change, the early modern period. Professor Keith Pluymers joins me once more to discuss the At ...  Show more

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