The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations

by IanMorris (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2013

  $62.42

  Over the years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. Using a numerical index of social development that compares societies in different times and places, the author gives a sweeping examination of Eastern and Western development across 15,000 years since the end of the last ice age.