Civilization

The West and the Rest

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Niall Ferguson: Civilization (2018, Penguin Books, Limited)

432 pages

English language

Published April 12, 2018 by Penguin Books, Limited.

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978-0-14-198793-4
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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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Subjects

  • Civilization, modern
  • Civilization, western
  • History, modern
  • East and west