Civilization: The West and the Rest
Format: library binding
ISBN:
9781400194995 (1400194997)
Publish date: November 1st 2011
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Edition language: English
This appears to me to be an attempt by Ferguson to provide a sort of sequel to Guns, Germs and Steel. I say that because both books begin the same way - the attempt to answer a question about Europe's predominance over the last few hundred years and because Ferguson makes multiple reference's to Dia...
Niall Ferguson is a sort of British Bright Young Thing and Stephen Colbert-type artist who is pretending to be an American Republican. like Ali-G , the joke is only apparent to the British; most Americans read Ferguson straight and believe he actually is a Heritage Scholar or whatever his title is a...
In some ways, I have very little to say about this book. The main ideas are in the chapter titles of the main 6 chapters of the book: Competition (small European nations in competition with everyone else, instead of larger nations - focused on China - having little to no competition), Science (the s...
13 years ago
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