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

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

Authors

Ian Morris

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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 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 about when and why the West came to dominate the world and fresh perspectives for thinking about the twenty-first century.

ISBN

978-0-691-16086-3

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Disciplines

History

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