Explorations: Animal Farm: Long Term History: America:The most significant developments over the last ten thousand years
Duration: 7 mins 45 secs
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
In answer to David Dugan, Joel Mokyr summarizes some of the most significant developmentS over the last ten thousand years, including the philosophical developments in the west which made nature into a tool for humans, the desire to disrupt rather than live in harmony with nature, the backward-looking nature of Jewish and Islamic civilizations. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-11 17:40 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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