A short history of progress / by Ronald Wright.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005Description: 211 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0786715472
- 9780786715473
- 303.4409 22
- CB151 .W75 2005
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 303.4409 WRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A264424B |
Originally published: Toronto : House of Anansi Press, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-199) and index.
I. Gauguin's questions -- II. The great experiment -- III. Fools' paradise -- IV. Pyramid schemes -- V. The rebellion of the tools.
"A Short History of Progress is nothing less than a concise history of the world since Neanderthal times, elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and stunningly clear in its warning to us now. Wright shows how human beings have a way of walking into "progress traps," beginning with the worldwide slaughter of big game in the Stone Age. The same pattern of overconsumption then took a new from, as many of the world's most creative civilizations - Mesopotamia, the Maya, the Roman Empire - fell victim to their own success."--BOOK JACKET.
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