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Civilization : the west and the rest
Ferguson, Niall, 2011Verfügbar |
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Medienart | Buch | ||||
ISBN | 978-1-84614-456-1 | ||||
Verfasser | Ferguson, Niall
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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. | ||||
Annotation | Summary: 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. Table of Contents: Terms of Use 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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