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Civilization: The West and the Rest

By Ferguson , Niall

Book information

Publisher
ePenguin;Allen Lane
Year
2011
ISBN
9781846142826, 1846142822
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
3 MB (3194718 bytes)
Pages
xxx, 402 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : i
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Comparative civilization;Cultuur;East and West;EcoModern;HISTORY--World;International Economics;Über

Description

What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six "killer applications"?that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy.

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