TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson,Niall
TI  - Civilization: the west and the rest 
SN  - 9781846144561
U1  - 909.08 FER 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Allen Lane
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - Comparative civilization
KW  - East and West
KW  - Cultuur
KW  - gtt
N1  - Gratis; Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-378) and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36122
ER  -