THE MEANING OF THE 20TH CENTURY by Kenneth Ewart Boulding ( 9780819171023 )

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Title:

THE MEANING OF THE 20TH CENTURY
THE GREAT TRANSITION

By:

Kenneth Ewart Boulding

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0819171026

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9780819171023

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA

Pub. date:

1 August, 1988

Pages:

220

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As relevant today as when it was first published in 1965 by Harper and Row, this book looks at the 20th century as a critical era in the great transition from a civilized to a post-civilized society. The 20th century itself is seen as an ongoing evolutionary process. The author focuses on three "traps" which would prevent this transition from taking place: the "war trap", the "population trap", and the "entropy trap". And he outlines strategies for the 21st century for overcoming these traps.

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