Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization
Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization
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GBPFour 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.
Product details
July 2009Paperback
9780521135849
184 pages
229 × 152 × 11 mm
0.24kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Movements of the mind
- 2. The Genesis of industrialism
- 3. The origin of civilisation
- 4. The spiritual basis of civilisation
- 5. The aesthetic basis of civilisation
- 6. Civilisation and industrialism
- Index.
