Description: Published in 2011, Civilization: The West and the Rest examines what Ferguson calls the most "interesting question" of our day: "Why, beginning around 1500, did a few small polities on the western end of the Eurasian landmass come to dominate the rest of the world?" The Economist in a review wrote:In 1500 Europe's future imperial powers controlled 10% of the world's territories and generated just over 40% of its wealth. By 1913, at the height of empire, the West controlled almost 60% of the territories, which together generated almost 80% of the wealth. This stunning fact is lost, he regrets, on a generation that has supplanted history's sweep with a feeble-minded relativism that holds "all civilisations as somehow equal".Ferguson attributes this divergence to the West's development of six "killer apps", which he finds were largely missing elsewhere in the world in 1500 – "competition, the scientific method, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism and the work ethic".
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Book Title: Civilization : the West and the Rest
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2012
Topic: Civilization, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Modern / General, Expeditions & Discoveries, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 14.6 Oz
Author: Niall Ferguson
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
