A Short History Of Progress - Hardcover

Wright, Ronald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841957119 ISBN 13: 9781841957111

Verlag: Canongate Books, 2005

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A compelling work of distilled wisdom. * * TLS * * Wright is both trained academic and an acclaimed novelist and he has used these skills to page-turning effect in this work of non-fiction. * * Morning Star * * The author sifts the findings of archaeology and anthropology with thoughtful grace to build a potent argument. * * Guardian * *

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Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the earth are monuments to progress traps, the headstones of civilisations which fell victim to their own succee. In the fate of such societies - once mighty, complex and brilliant - lie the most instructive lessons of our own. The twentieth century's runaway growth in human population, consumption and technology has placed a mysterious burden on the planet. In A Short History of Progress, prize-winning novelist and historian Ronald Wright aregues that this modern predicament is, in fact, as old as civilisation, a 10,000-year experiment we unleashed but have seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of progress and disaster that humanity has repeated since the Stone Age can we recognise the experiment's inherent dangers and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.

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• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1841957119
• ISBN 13: 9781841957111
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224