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The measure of civilization: How social development decides the fate of nations / Ian Morris

By: Morris, Ian [author]Material type: Text

TextPublication details: United States of America: Princeton University Press, c2013Description: xvi, 381 pages : illustration, maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780691160863Subject(s): SOCIAL HISTORY | SOCIAL STRUCTURES | ECONOMIC HISTORY | CIVILIZATION, MODERNLOC classification: HM 706 .M67 2013.

Contents:

Introduction : quantifying social development -- Methods and assumptions -- Energy capture -- Social organization -- War-making capacity -- Information technology -- Discussion : the limits and potential of measuring development.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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