Plough sword and book the structure of human history plough sword and book ernest gellner university of chicago press 1989 history 288 pages 0 reviews british. Ernest gellner plough sword and book the structure of human history chicago university of chicago press 1988 emiko ohnuki tiemey culture through time anthropological approaches stanford sta. Plough sword and book the structure of human history by ernest gellner chicago university of chicago press 1988 pp 288 this book offers a very british late twentieth century vision of what the author calls philosophical history it may be a genuinely great book even though from. The book plough sword and book the structure of human history ernest gellner is published by university of chicago press