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Short History of Progress (New edition)

Ronald Wright

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Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made progress. Those who learnt how to kill 200 - by driving a whole herd over a cliff - had made too much. Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the earth are monuments to progress traps, the headstones of civilisations which fell victim to their own success. The twentieth-century's runaway growth has placed a murderous burden on the planet. "A Short History of Progress" argues that this modern predicament is as old as civilisation. Only by understanding the patterns of progress and disaster that humanity has repeated since the Stone Age can we recognise the inherent dangers, and, with luck, and wisdom, shape its outcome.

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Title: Short History of Progress

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Publication Date: 28/09/2006

ISBN 10: 1841958301

Imprint: Canongate Books Ltd

Edition: New edition

Pages: 160

ISBN 13: 9781841958309
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Ronald Wright is a prize-winning novelist, historian, and essayist, published in ten languages. His non-fiction includes the number-one bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by the Independent and the Sunday Times. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by the Sunday Times.

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