LEADER 03678nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910823289303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-299-14683-X 010 $a1-4008-4476-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400844760 035 $a(CKB)2670000000329077 035 $a(EBL)1053773 035 $a(OCoLC)845247046 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000783736 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11485684 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783736 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10760487 035 $a(PQKB)10274310 035 $a(DE-B1597)453836 035 $a(OCoLC)979578978 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400844760 035 $a(PPN)170602141 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88811623 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1053773 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000329077 100 $a20120705d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe measure of civilization $ehow social development decides the fate of nations /$fIan Morris 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (401 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-16086-4 311 $a0-691-15568-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : quantifying social development -- Methods and assumptions -- Energy capture -- Social organization -- War-making capacity -- Information technology -- Discussion : the limits and potential of measuring development. 330 $aIn the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares societies in different times and places, award-winning author Ian Morris sets forth a sweeping examination of Eastern and Western development across 15,000 years since the end of the last ice age. He offers surprising conclusions about when and why the West came to dominate the world and fresh perspectives for thinking about the twenty-first century. Adapting the United Nations' approach for measuring human development, Morris's index breaks social development into four traits--energy capture per capita, organization, information technology, and war-making capacity--and he uses archaeological, historical, and current government data to quantify patterns. Morris reveals that for 90 percent of the time since the last ice age, the world's most advanced region has been at the western end of Eurasia, but contrary to what many historians once believed, there were roughly 1,200 years--from about 550 to 1750 CE--when an East Asian region was more advanced. Only in the late eighteenth century CE, when northwest Europeans tapped into the energy trapped in fossil fuels, did the West leap ahead. Resolving some of the biggest debates in global history, The Measure of Civilization puts forth innovative tools for determining past, present, and future economic and social trends. 606 $aSocial structure 606 $aSocial history 606 $aEconomic history 615 0$aSocial structure. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aEconomic history. 676 $a306.09 700 $aMorris$b Ian$f1960-$038390 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823289303321 996 $aThe Measure of Civilization$93923463 997 $aUNINA