The most significant developments over the last ten thousand yeaars
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Authors
Dugan, David
Publication Date
2004-08-18Language
en_GB
Type
Video
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Dugan, D. (2004). The most significant developments over the last ten thousand yeaars [Video file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/699
Abstract
In answer to David Dugan, Joel Mokyr summarizes some of the most significant development over the last ten thousand years, including the philosophical developments in the west which made nature into a tool for humans, the desire to disrupt rather than live in harmony with nature, the backward-looking nature of Jewish and Islamic civilizations.
Keywords
civilization
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