L’Évolution de l’humanité

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L'Évolution de l'humanité is a monumental series of 100 volumes, edited by Henri Berr, a French historian and philosopher. Published between 1920 and 1954, this collection aimed to synthesize historical and scientific scholarship by presenting a comprehensive survey of civilization from prehistory to the present day. Berr founded the Revue de synthèse historique and the Centre International de Synthèse to promote the integration of history with social sciences. The series itself is a cooperative endeavor, with individual monographs contributing to a broad understanding of human development.1

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Henri Berr
…editing a cooperative enterprise entitled L’Évolution de l’humanité, 100 vol. (65 published between 1920 and 1954), a series of historical monographs intended as a synthetic survey of civilization from prehistory to the present.
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…editing a cooperative enterprise entitled L’Évolution de l’humanité, 100 vol. (65 published between 1920 and 1954), a series of historical monographs intended as a synthetic survey of civilization from prehistory to the present.
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