9780521135849 - Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization (Wiles Lectures) von Nef, John U. (3 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. In this book Nef portrays the birth and development of our industrial civilisation in a humanist, and not purely economic, light. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240. . 2009. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.