ISBN:
1846142733
,
9781846144561
,
9781846142734
Language:
English
Pages:
XXX, 402 S., [12] Bl.
,
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Penguin economics
Keywords:
History, Modern
;
Comparative civilization
;
East and West
;
Weltgeschichte
;
Weltgeschichte
;
Kulturgeschichte
;
Zivilisation
;
Weltpolitik
;
Herrschaft
;
Westen, der
;
Wettbewerb
;
Wissenschaft
;
Eigentum
;
Medizin
;
Konsum
;
Arbeitsmoral
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Civilization, Western
;
History, Modern
;
Westliche Welt
;
Zivilisation
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliograpy and index
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