On deep history and the brain - Smail, Daniel Lord (University of California Press, 2008)
"A Caravan book"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index
Introduction: toward reunion in history -- The grip of sacred history -- Resistance -- Between Darwin and Lamarck -- The new neurohistory -- Civilization and psychotropy -- Epilogue: Looking ahead
When does history begin? What characterizes it? This book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. It lays out a new case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology into the realm of history