Explorations: Animal Farm: Long Term History: Australia: The normal tendencies of human history towards stasis: a brief map of history
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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.
Standing on a beach in Australia, Alan Macfarlane illustrates with drawings on the sand the normal tendencies of types of civilization to reach an equilibrium and the extraordinary break-through in the very recent past of the industrial revolution. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-12 09:01 |
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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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