Kelly Robert L. The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future 9780520303485

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Автор: Kelly Robert L.
Название: The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future
ISBN: 9780520303485
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

Всеобщая и мировая история

Археология

Социальная и культурная антропология, этнография

ISBN-10: 0520303482
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 168
Вес: 0.25 кг.
Дата издания: 12.02.2019
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 2 maps, 2 charts
Размер: 231 x 151 x 11
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Подзаголовок: What six million years of human history can tell us about our future
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow. This inscription in Tutankhamuns tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity.

In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year history of human development: the emergence of technology, culture, agriculture, and the state. In each example, the author examines the long-term processes that resulted in a definitive, no-turning-back change for the organization of society. Kelly then looks ahead, giving us evidence for what he calls a fifth beginning, one that started about AD 1500. Some might call it globalization, but the author places it in its larger context: a five-thousand-year arms race, capitalisms global reach, and the cultural effects of a worldwide communication network.

Kelly predicts that the emergent phenomena of this fifth beginning will include the end of war as a viable way to resolve disputes, the end of capitalism as we know it, the widespread shift toward world citizenship, and the rise of forms of cooperation that will end the near-sacred status of nation-states. Its the end of life as we have known it. However, the author is cautiously optimistic: he dwells not on the coming chaos, but on humanitys great potential.

The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future, Kelly Robert L.