A Short History of Progress
by:
Ronald Wright (author)
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9781847676610
Publish date: August 31st 2010
Publisher: Canongate Books
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Cultural,
Science,
Environment,
Economics,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Anthropology,
Canada
This is a lucid essay on where we come from, what we are and where we are going as human. Ronald Wright gives us a grim account of 4 civilizations : Sumerian, Mayas, Easter Island, Rome that plundered their nests and destroyed themselves all in the name of progress and the pursuit of riches. Is man ...
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