Morris The Measure of Civilization

How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4476-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

Ian Morris is the Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and professor of history at Stanford University. His most recent book is the award-winning Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) which has been translated into eleven languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morris, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichte: Sachbuch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

List of Tables xiii

Preface xv

1 Introduction: Quantifying Social Development 1

2 Methods and Assumptions 25

3 Energy Capture 53

4 Social Organization 144

5 War-Making Capacity 173

6 Information Technology 218

7 Discussion: The Limits and Potential of Measuring Development 238

Notes 265

References 321

Index 375

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Morris is the Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and professor of history at Stanford University. His most recent book is the award-winning Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) which has been translated into eleven languages.