Civilization : the West and the rest

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Tác giả: Niall Ferguson

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-10: 1101547294

ISBN-10: 1101548029

ISBN-10: 1594203059

ISBN-13: 978-1101547298

ISBN-13: 978-1101548028

ISBN-13: 978-1594203053

Ký hiệu phân loại: 909 World history

Thông tin xuất bản: New York : Penguin Press, 2011

Mô tả vật lý: xxx, 402 p., [24] p. of plates : , ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. (some col.), charts ; , 24 cm.

Bộ sưu tập: Lịch sử, Địa lý

ID: 76578

"The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years. All over the world, an astonishing proportion of people now work for Western-style companies, study at Western-style universities, vote for Western-style governments, take Western medicines, wear Western clothes, and even work Western hours. Yet six hundred years ago the petty kingdoms of Western Europe seemed unlikely to achieve much more than perpetual internecine warfare. It was Ming China or Ottoman Turkey that had the look of world civilizations. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? In Civilization: The West and the Rest, bestselling author Niall Ferguson argues that, beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts that the Rest lacked: competition, science, the rule of law, consumerism, modern medicine, and the work ethic. These were the "killer applications" that allowed the West to leap ahead of the Rest, opening global trade routes, exploiting newly discovered scientific laws, evolving a system of representative government, more than doubling life expectancy, unleashing the Industrial Revolution, and embracing a dynamic work ethic. Civilization shows just how fewer than a dozen Western empires came to control more than half of humanity and four fifths of the world economy"--Provided by publisheA history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance offers insight into the development of such concepts as competition, modern medicine, and the work ethic, arguing that Western dominance is being lost to cultures who are more productively utilizing Western technique
Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-378) and index.
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