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The Measure of Civilisation

Name: The Measure of Civilisation
Author: Ian Morris

How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations

Ian Morris

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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 inevitable) and 'short-term accident' theories. Instead, we need to measure social development - a group's ability to master its environment to get things done - and use the results to look at the patterns of history.

Why the West Rules - For Now briefly describes the methods used to calculate Eastern and Western social development scores since the ice age; in The Measure of Civilisation, Morris expands upon these methods, discussing possible objections to this approach, and providing fascinating accounts of his gathering of evidence for his calculations. It is a magnificent account of where our understanding of the development of East and West comes from, and an unusual insight into a master thinker at work.

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history can afford not to read this book. It clearly and consistently told me what I needed to know about the social resources that provide the indispensable context for the interpretation of culture. And, it is an enormous pleasure to read. I cannot think of another book from which I have learned so much.
Ian Morris has done it again. He has enriched the argument about 'why the West rules' with a treasure trove of information about social development over the last 16,000 years. No one seriously interested in world or 'big'

s quantitative index of social development and important for his observations about what we can learn from existing work, what features of societies matter most, and what future research is needed.
For all those interested in why the West, not the East, industrialized first, this succinct and intelligent book provides new data, a new conceptual tool, and a promising new approach to this major question. It is a valuable, critical guide to Morris'

A provocative and extraordinary contribution to wide-screen comparative history ... a true banquet of ideas

This is a superb book. Measuring how societies learned to harness energy better, improve their organizational and war-making capacities, and accumulate usable information, Ian Morris has developed a terrific index of social development. His fascinating conclusions and use of data will be controversial, but this book will become a classic source for anyone studying the nature of progress from sixteen thousand years ago to now.

Praise for Ian Morris: "Morris is a lucid thinker and a fine writer . . . possessed of a welcome sense of humor that helps him guide us through this grand game of history as if he were an erudite sportscaster."

teacher of life.
Ian Morris has returned history to the position it once held: no longer a series of dusty debates, nor simple stories--although he has many stories to tell and tells them brilliantly--but a true magister vitae, '

The Measure of Civilization is a terrific book-it will inform, stimulate, and challenge you. Beautifully summarizing and quantifying the major developments in energy capture, social organization, war technology, and categorization, storage, and communication of information over the last sixteen millennia, this book shows how far we have come and how this journey has been a cumulative process.

s work is part of a resurgence of materialist, scientific approaches in archaeology and history. As such, many will be interested in the data and methods made available by this important book. The Measure of Civilization contains valuable and useful ideas and insights.
Morris'

The ingenuity and style of his arguments will make economists and historians stand up and take notice.

The nearest thing to a unified field theory of history we are ever likely to get
Praise for Why The West Rules - For Now: '

An important book - one that challenges, stimulates and entertains. Anyone who does not believe there are lessons to be learned from history should start here

s most talented ancient historian, a man as much at home with state-of-the-art archaeology as with the classics as they used to be studied.
Morris is the world'

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