The Measure of Civilization : How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations

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In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morris, Ian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social structure.
Social history.
Economic history.
Pays occidentaux.
Civilisations.
Histoire economique.
Histoire sociale.
Developpement social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
social history.
social structure.
Structure sociale.
Europe.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares societies in different times and places, award-winning author Ian Morris sets forth a sweeping examination of Eastern and Western development across 15,000 years since the end of the last ice age. He offers surprising conclusions ab.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781400844760

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