The Measure of Civilization : How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations
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- The Measure of Civilization : How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations
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- 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 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
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- Dewey number
- 909
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- In English
- LC call number
- HM706
- LC item number
- .M67 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
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