Why the West Rules - For Now

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Publikuota 2010 m. lapkričio 1 d., Viva Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-84668-147-9

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In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the West's rise to power, and computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Today, however, many worry that the emergence of China and India spell the end of the West as a superpower.

How long will the power of the West last? In order to find out we need to know: why has the West been so dominant for the past two hundred years?

With flair and authority, historian and achaeologist Ian Morris draws uniquely on 15,000 years of history to offer fresh insights on what the future will bring. Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why The West Rules - For Now is a gripping and truly original history of the world.

5 leidimai

John Lusk apžvelgė autoriaus Ian Morris knygą Why the West Rules - For Now

Very readable "big" world history focusing on west vs. east

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This was a great, readable world history. The style is breezy and doesn't feel like a textbook full of dates and treaties to be memorized. (But maybe that's because I approached it voluntarily.)

Morris's idea of a single numeric metric to use to compare West and East might not seem right, but it's a great device to sort of "motivate" the narrative, and provides a pretty interesting lens through which to view the collapse of Rome and Industrial Revolution, and yields a pretty good explanation for Chinese pride and the resentment of the "century of humiliation".

petras

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