Ian Morris

Dlaczego Zachoacute;d rządzi? Jak długo trwać będzie jego władza w świetle wzrastającej roli Chin i Indii? W swoim chwalonym przez krytykoacute;w bestsellerze wybitny historyk i archeolog Ian Morris udziela prowokacyjnych odpowiedzi. Morris wyjaśnia, że tylko badając całą cywilizację ludzką, możemy zrozumieć, dlaczego Wschoacute;d rozwijał się...

In 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...

This title offers a unique insight into the index of social development that measures change in East and West - and that forms the core of the international bestseller. In "Why the West Rules - For Now" Ian Morris argues that to understand the development of East and West, we need to look beyond 'long-term lock-in' theories (that suggest it was...

In 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...

State Power from Assyria to ByzantiumThe Dynamics of Ancient Empires is designed to address the deficit in the comparative study of ancient empires in the western Old World, and to encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries by examining the fundamental features of the successive and partly overlapping imperial states that dominated much of...

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