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The culture of consumption: critical essays in American history, 1880-1980
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ISBN: 0394716116 9780394716114 Year: 1983 Publisher: New York Pantheon Books


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The expression of common value attitudes toward suffering in the symbolism of medieval art
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ISBN: 0824025199 Year: 1990 Volume: vol *10 Publisher: New York Garland

Victorian values : personalities and perspectives in nineteenth-century society.
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ISBN: 0582292891 9780582292895 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Longman


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Victorian values : personalities and perspectives in nineteenth-century society
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ISBN: 0582036852 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Longman


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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels : How Human Values Evolve
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ISBN: 9781400865512 9780691160399 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven by the most basic force of all: energy. Humans have found three main ways to get the energy they need--from foraging, farming, and fossil fuels. Each energy source sets strict limits on what kinds of societies can succeed, and each kind of society rewards specific values. But if our fossil-fuel world favors democratic, open societies, the ongoing revolution in energy capture means that our most cherished values are very likely to turn out not to be useful any more. Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels offers a compelling new argument about the evolution of human values, one that has far-reaching implications for how we understand the past--and for what might happen next. Originating as the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, the book includes challenging responses by classicist Richard Seaford, historian of China Jonathan Spence, philosopher Christine Korsgaard, and novelist Margaret Atwood.


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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve
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ISBN: 9781400865512 1400865514 9780691160399 0691160392 0691175896 1336028157 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven by the most basic force of all: energy. Humans have found three main ways to get the energy they need--from foraging, farming, and fossil fuels. Each energy source sets strict limits on what kinds of societies can succeed, and each kind of society rewards specific values. But if our fossil-fuel world favors democratic, open societies, the ongoing revolution in energy capture means that our most cherished values are very likely to turn out not to be useful any more. Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels offers a compelling new argument about the evolution of human values, one that has far-reaching implications for how we understand the past--and for what might happen next. Originating as the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, the book includes challenging responses by classicist Richard Seaford, historian of China Jonathan Spence, philosopher Christine Korsgaard, and novelist Margaret Atwood.

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