by Ronald Wright · Canongate Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841958309
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«A Short History of Progress» is Ronald Wright's historical essay, published by Canongate Books in paperback (224 pages, in English).
From the Stone Age to the present, Ronald Wright shows how unchecked growth exhausts resources and drives societies to collapse. That progress trap, visible in the ruins of civilizations ruined by their own success, is as old as civilization; recognizing it, he argues, is key to shaping the future.
Ronald Wright won the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award 2005 in the non-fiction category and was a finalist for the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.
It is aimed at readers of history, anthropology, and the environment, offering an accessible reflection on the course of civilization.
Ronald Wright is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction. His nonfiction includes the bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by The Independent and the Sunday Times. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the Sunday Times, and The New York Times.
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