A short history of progress / by Ronald Wright.

By:

Wright, Ronald, 1948- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005Description: 211 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0786715472
9780786715473

Subject(s):

Progress -- History

DDC classification:

303.4409 22

LOC classification:

CB151 .W75 2005

Contents:

I. Gauguin's questions -- II. The great experiment -- III. Fools' paradise -- IV. Pyramid schemes -- V. The rebellion of the tools.

Review: "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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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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