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City of the end of things : lectures on civilization and empire / Northrop Frye, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Togo Salmon ; introduction by Jonathan Hart [editor].
- Title
- City of the end of things : lectures on civilization and empire / Northrop Frye, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Togo Salmon ; introduction by Jonathan Hart [editor].
- Publication
- Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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- Description
- 245 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Drawn from a series of high-profile lectures at McMaster University that started in 1956 (and are still ongoing), these three talks were selected for their understanding of the modern world, past, present, and future. Take a whirlwind tour of the Roman Empire, physics from Isaac Newton to the splitting of the atom, and Canada's outlook as it stood poised to enter its next century."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Note
- Lectures from a series given at McMaster University from 1956 to the present.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- The flying trapeze : three crises for physicists (1964) / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- The modern century (1967) / Northrop Frye -- The nemesis of empire (1974) / Edward Togo Salmon.
- ISBN
- 9780195430059
- 0195430050
- OCLC
- 242045257
- SCSB-11874480
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library