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- Calculated Chaos
Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 Discusses the role of institutions within society and how their interests have lead to conflict and war over the past century.
- The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects Resource Type: Book Published: 1961 Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
- Civilisation
A Personal View Resource Type: Book Published: 1969
- Culture Against Man
Resource Type: Book
- Dreamtime
Concerning the Boundary Between Wilderness and Civilization Resource Type: Book Published: 2985 Dreamtime celebrates the simultaneity of contraries at the crossroads of the logical and the mythic mind. "The 'dream place' is everywhere and nowhere, just like the 'dreamtime' is always and never." It was, after all, predictable from the time when scientific specialization began in earnest early in this century that the most fascinating insights into the human mind and the culture it has left behind would occur wherever people observe two pathways crossing.
- Five Billion Years of Global Change
A History of the Land Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 From the Big Bang theory to the Web, Five Billion Years of Global Change takes readers through the formation of the world, its oceans and continents, the evolution of the human species, development of agriculture and the growth of international trade. The book will be enjoyed by people interested in the history of the planet and concern for its future.
- Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
Resource Type: Article Published: 1930 Bertrand Russell's 1930 critique of religious morality and metaphysics.
- The Many Roots of Christian Europe
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 This is a transcript of a I talk I gave yesterday at the LSE Literary Festival. My thanks to Arthur Bradley who also took part and responded to many of the themes I raised here and to Danielle Sands of the Forum for European Philosophy for organising the discussion.
- Multiculturalism or World Culture?
On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown Resource Type: Article Published: 2000 Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored.
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974
- Royal BC Museum
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- A Short History of Progress
Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
- Strange Fruit
Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
- Technics and Civilization
Resource Type: Book Published: 1963 A history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization.
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