Ian Morris
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society--for the better "War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing," says the famous song--but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer. In War! What Is It Good For? the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian Morris tells the gruesome, gripping story of fifteen thousand...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Morris once again advances an ambitious account of how certain 'brute material forces' limit and help determine the 'culture, values, and beliefs,' including the moral codes, that humans have adopted over the last 20,000 years."--Introduction.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Unabridged, library ed.
Physical Desc
21 sound discs (25.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist and historian Ian Morris explains that Western dominance is largely the result of the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, however, the world over the next hundred years will subsequently change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
14 sound discs (16 hr., 56 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ian Morris tells the gruesome, gripping story of fifteen thousand years of war, going beyond the battles and brutality to reveal what war has really done to and for the world.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
570 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the eight-thousand-year history of Britain's relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world."--