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Civilization

Civilization

by Niall Ferguson

World politicsInternational relationsWestern CivilizationHegemonyHistory
2.5
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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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World politicsInternational relationsWestern CivilizationHegemonyHistoryNew York Times bestseller

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Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson

18 April 1964

Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British historian from Scotland. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, University of Oxford, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities. His specialties are international history, economic and financial history, and British and American imperialism. He is known for his provocative, contrarian views. - Wikipedia

Author

Niall Ferguson

Pages

432

Read time

≈ 11h

Editions

12

Languages

English, German

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited

ISBN

9789588613536

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