Civilization : the west and the rest / Niall Ferguson.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : The Penguin Group / Penguin Books, 2012Description: xxx, 402 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780143122067
- 909.09821 FER 22
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Book - Borrowing | Central Library Second Floor | Baccah | 909.09821 FER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 22696 | Available | 000038901 |
Cover : " New York Times bestseller".
Cover : " "A dazzling history of Western ideas." ــــ The Economist".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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