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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels

লেখক / Author: Ian Morris

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The best-selling author of Why the West Rules?for Now examines the evolution and future of human values Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven by the most basic force of all: energy. Humans have found three main ways to get the energy they need?from foraging, farming, and fossil fuels. Each energy source sets strict limits on what kinds of societies can succeed, and each kind of society rewards specific values. But if our fossil-fuel world favors…

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Pages: 400

Language: en

ISBN-13: 9781400865512

ISBN-10: 1400865514