They also looked at levels that were around in preindustrial times and those we are experiencing today. ❋ Robin Madel (2010)
In preliterate and in preindustrial urban societies, socially successful individuals commonly had larger than average families. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Asian living standards were low because of high standards of personal and public hygiene in preindustrial China and Japan. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Professor Stone cannot at the same time endorse the work of anthropologists and also argue that attitudes toward old age show "much the same ambivalence" in primitive and "preindustrial" society, and assert that attitudes are "not so very different" from preindustrial society to our own time. ❋ Fischer, David Hackett (1977)
They argue that attitudes were highly favorable to the aged in "preindustrial" society, before a spirit of "gerontophobia" appeared in the modern world. ❋ Fischer, David Hackett (1977)
It would be essential, in other words, to analyze not just the transition from "preindustrial" to industrial conditions, but the whole nexus, political, social, and cultural, in which industrialism grew up at different times and in different places. ❋ Bell, Daniel (1974)
Labels and inscriptions on things manufactured in preindustrial eras often give voice to the objects they adorn, as if bringing them to life, to speak directly or forthrightly to their admirers or potential owners. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)
These “intentional communities” were typically established in remote locations so as to re-create agrarian, preindustrial society. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Of course, hard work was necessary for a decent life in a preindustrial land, but in American culture it was celebrated as a good thing in itself. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
“Just as the minstrel stage held out the possibility that whites could be ‘black’ for a while but nonetheless white,” David Roediger, the leading historian of “whiteness,” has written, “it offered the possibilities that, via blackface, preindustrial joys could survive amidst industrial discipline.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
A little more than two years ago in Copenhagen President Obama committed the United States (in a non-binding pledge) to work with the international community to prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.5 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, which our best guess translates into keeping carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations below 450 parts per million. ❋ Bill Chameides (2012)
As a set of price controls, it was naturally a disaster, but what I find really valuable in it is getting a sense of relative prices in a preindustrial economy. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It's quiet and understated, even as it shows a man unraveling or receiving the sort of prophetic signs that used to be more commonplace in our preindustrial world. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)
In some ways the world economy at the start of the twentieth century was still remarkably preindustrial. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Small countries say drastic action is necessary sooner than 2020 to keep emissions low enough to prevent temperatures from rising more than an average of 2 degrees Celsius, or about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels. ❋ Patrick McGroarty (2011)
Gregory Clark makes the case in farewell to alms, that Malthus was right, and all preindustrial states lived under malthusian trap. ❋ Unknown (2009)
