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Foragers, farmers, and fossil fuels : (Record no. 30093)

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fixed length control field	141125s2015 njua b 001 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN	9780691160399 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title	eng
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	303.4
Item number	MOR
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name	Morris, Ian,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Foragers, farmers, and fossil fuels :
Remainder of title	how human values evolve /
Statement of responsibility, etc	Ian Morris ; [with responses by] Richard Seaford, Jonathan D. Spence, Christine M. Korsgaard, Margaret Atwood ; edited and introduced by Stephen Macedo.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages	xxii, 369 pages :
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement	The University Center for Human Values series
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	Each Age Gets the Thought It Needs -- Foragers -- Farmers -- Fossil Fuels -- The Evolution of Values : Biology, Culture, and the Shape of Things to Come -- On the Ideology of Imagining That "Each Age Gets the Thought It Needs" / Richard Seaford -- But What Was It Really Like? : The Limitations of Measuring Historical Values / Jonathan D. Spence -- Eternal Values, Evolving Values, and the Value of the Self / Christine M. Korsgaard -- When the Lights Go Out : Human Values after the Collapse of Civilization / Margaret Atwood -- My Correct Views on Everything / Ian Morris.
520 2# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	"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, author of the best-selling Why the West Rules--for Now, explains why. The result is 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. 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. In tiny forager bands, people who value equality but are ready to settle problems violently do better than those who aren't; in large farming societies, people who value hierarchy and are less willing to use violence do best; and in huge fossil-fuel societies, the pendulum has swung back toward equality but even further away from violence. 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--at some point fairly soon--not to be useful any more. Originating as the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, the book includes challenging responses by novelist Margaret Atwood, philosopher Christine Korsgaard, classicist Richard Seaford, and historian of China Jonathan Spence"--
520 2# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	"This is a successor work to Why the West Rules for Now, in which 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. The present volume originated as Ian Morris's Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered at Princeton University in November of 2012"--Introduction.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Social values
General subdivision	History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Social evolution
General subdivision	History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Social change
General subdivision	History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Power resources
General subdivision	Social aspects
--	History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Hunting and gathering societies
General subdivision	History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Agriculture
General subdivision	Social aspects
--	History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Fossil fuels
General subdivision	Social aspects
--	History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Civilization
General subdivision	History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Civilization
General subdivision	Forecasting.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	HISTORY / World.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Seaford, Richard.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Spence, Jonathan D.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Korsgaard, Christine M.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Atwood, Margaret,
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Macedo, Stephen,
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Morris, Ian,
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Koha item type	Books

Holdings
Lost status	Damaged status	Home library	Current library	Shelving location	Date acquired	Source of acquisition	Cost, normal purchase price	Full call number	Accession Number	Koha item type
		Central Library	Central Library	General Section	11/03/2016	Segment Pub	2156.00	303.4 MOR	029763	Books