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1883

Civilization : the west and the rest

Ferguson, Niall, 2011
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ISBN 978-1-84614-456-1
Verfasser Ferguson, Niall Wikipedia
Systematik PhÄ - Philosophie/Ästhetik
Schlagworte civilization, modern, civilization, western, east and west
Verlag Allen Lane
Ort London [u.a.]
Jahr 2011
Umfang XXX, 402 p.
Altersbeschränkung keine
Sprache englisch
Verfasserangabe Niall Ferguson
Illustrationsang III, graph. Darst.; Kt.
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If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe - Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland - would have seemed little better. The idea that the West would come to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would have struck you as wildly fanciful. And yet it happened. 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. Civilization takes readers on their own extraordinary journey around the world - from the Grand Canal at Nanjing to the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul; from Machu Picchu in the Andes to Shark Island, Namibia; from the proud towers of Prague to the secret churches of Wenzhou. It is the story of sailboats, missiles, land deeds, vaccines, blue jeans and Chinese Bibles. It is the defining narrative of modern world history.
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List of Illustrationsp. ix
List of Mapsp. xii
List of Figuresp. xiii
Preface to the UK Editionp. xv
Introduction: Rasselas's Questionp. 1
1Competitionp. 19
Two Riversp. 20
The Eunuch and the Unicornp. 26
The Spice Racep. 33
The Mediocre Kingdomp. 44
2Sciencep. 50
The Siegep. 50
Micrographiap. 60
Osman and Fritzp. 71
Tanzimat Toursp. 85
From Istanbul to Jerusalemp. 90
3Propertyp. 96
New Worldsp. 96
Land of the Freep. 103
American Revolutionsp. 115
The Fate of the Gullahsp. 125
4Medicinep. 141
Burke's Prophecyp. 142
The Juggernaut of Warp. 157
Médecins Sans Frontieresp. 168
The Skulls of Shark Islandp. 175
Black Shamep. 185
5Consumptionp. 196
The Birth of the Consumer Societyp. 196
Turning Westernp. 218
Ragtime to Richesp. 227
The Jeans Geniep. 240
Pyjamas and Scarvesp. 252
6Workp. 256
Work Ethic and Word Ethicp. 256
Get your Kicksp. 265
The Chinese Jerusalemp. 277
Lands of Unbeliefp. 288
The End of Days?p. 291
Conclusion: The Rivalsp. 295
Notesp. 326
Bibliographyp. 348
Indexp. 379
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