Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization Paperback / softback
by John U. Nef
Part of the The Wiles Lectures series
Paperback / softback
Description
Four hundred years ago the pattern of human life and thought was strikingly different from our own.
What main features led to the change in that pattern?
Professor Nef, a distinguished historian, suggests that economic history cannot alone give the answer: it must be in terms of changing attitudes and interests as much as in terms of a developing economy and a growing technology.
The origins of industrialism have to be sought in history as a whole.
Man's concern for truth, goodness and beauty has done as much to produce the modern world as economic institutions and natural resources.
Professor Nef has it in mind that, for a historian, the importance of human nature cannot be made subservient to that of productivity statistics; in this book he portrays the birth and development of our industrial civilisation in a clearer light.
The book is developed from the second series of Wiles lectures given at Queen's University, Belfast and is a successor to Man on his Past by Herbert Butterfield.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:30/07/2009
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- ISBN:9780521135849
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:30/07/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521135849
