Ian Morris

Ian Morris (historian)

Ian Matthew Morris (born 27 January 1960) is an American historian. He is currently Willard Professor of Classics at Stanford University.

Ian Morris (historian)

Ian Matthew Morris (born 27 January 1960) grew up in the United Kingdom. Morris is currently a Willard Professor of Classics and Professor of History at...

War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots

A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society—for the better“War! . . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing,” says the famous song—but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made huma...

Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity (Key Themes in Ancient History)

The chief purpose of this book is to show how burials may be used as a uniquely informative source for Greek and Roman social history. Burials permit a far wider range of inference and insight than the literary texts produced by and for a narrow social elite, and by studying them in depth Dr. Morris...

By Ian Morris: Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots

A POWERFUL AND PROVOCATIVE EXPLORATION OF HOW WAR HAS CHANGED OUT SOCIETY FOR THE BETTER"War! / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says the famous song but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity saf...

When Bad Things Happen to Rich People

When Bad Things Happen to Rich People is a novel of social satire, a black comedy set in Chicago in the summer of 1995. The novel’s protagonist, Nix Walters, is an adjunct instructor of English at a communications college in the loop with few prospects for advancement. He had become a literary punch...

The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations

In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbre...

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve

Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Mor...

The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium (Oxford Studies in Early Empires)

Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparat...

Introduction to the Algae

I Am a Droid

Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity

Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity

Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City State

Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies

Classical Greece : Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies

The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World