ISBN: 9780208014061 - cultural foundations of industrial civilization, (7 Ergebnisse)

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. Four hundred years ago the pattern of human life and thought was strikingly different from our own. What main features led to the change in that pattern? Professor Nef, a distinguished historian, suggests that economic history cannot alone give the answer: it must be in terms of changing attitudes and interests as much as in terms of a developing economy and a growing technology. The origins of industrialism have to be sought in history as a whole. Man's concern for truth, goodness and beauty has done as much to produce the modern world as economic institutions and natural resources. Professor Nef has it in mind that, for a historian, the importance of human nature cannot be made subservient to that of productivity statistics; in this book he portrays the birth and development of our industrial civilisation in a clearer light. The book is developed from the second series of Wiles lectures given at Queen's University, Belfast and is a successor to Man on his Past by Herbert Butterfield.…

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. Four hundred years ago the pattern of human life and thought was strikingly different from our own. What main features led to the change in that pattern? Professor Nef, a distinguished historian, suggests that economic history cannot alone give the answer: it must be in terms of changing attitudes and interests as much as in terms of a developing economy and a growing technology. The origins of industrialism have to be sought in history as a whole. Man's concern for truth, goodness and beauty has done as much to produce the modern world as economic institutions and natural resources. Professor Nef has it in mind that, for a historian, the importance of human nature cannot be made subservient to that of productivity statistics; in this book he portrays the birth and development of our industrial civilisation in a clearer light. The book is developed from the second series of Wiles lectures given at Queen's University, Belfast and is a successor to Man on his Past by Herbert Butterfield.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good+ condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good condition (DJ). First thus edition. xvi, 164 pages of text including an index. Hardcover leatherette binding with minor shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket slightly sunned on spine with minor shelfwear and soiling; protected in archival mylar. From the library of Theodore W. Schultz (1902-1998), winner of the 1979 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with W. A. Lewis. Signed and inscribed in ink on the front endpaper "From JPE via G. Stigler Dec. 14, 1973 [signed] T. W. Schultz." Schultz has added numerous ink comments, notes and underlining throughout the text. "JPE" is a likely abbreviation for the "Journal of Political Economy" with which Stigler, Nef, and Schultz were associated as contributors. A few margins have tiny chips and/or tears in what appears to be originally uncut and then imperfectly opened pages. Signed by Author(s). …