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Why the West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future
Why the West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future
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Author Ian Morris
Manufacturer Viva Books
PublicationDate 2010-11-01

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There are two broad schools of thought on why the West rules. Proponents of 'Long-Term Lock-In' theories such as Jared Diamond suggest that from time immemorial, some critical factor - geography, climate, or culture perhaps - made East and West unalterably different, and determined that the industrial revolution would happen in the West and push it further ahead of the East. But the East led the West between 500 and 1600, so this development can't have been inevitable; and so proponents of 'Short-Term Accident' theories argue that Western rule was a temporary aberration that is now coming to an end, with Japan, China, and India resuming their rightful places on the world stage. However, as the West led for 9,000 of the previous 10,000 years, it wasn't just a temporary aberration. So, if we want to know why the West rules, we need a whole new theory. Ian Morris, boldly entering the turf of Jared Diamond and Niall Ferguson, provides the broader approach that is necessary, combining the textual historian's focus on context, the anthropological archaeologist's awareness of the deep past, and the social scientist's comparative methods to make sense of the past, present and future - in a way no one has ever done before.

Author Ian Morris
Binding Hardcover
EAN 9781846681479
ISBN 1846681472
Label Viva Books
Manufacturer Viva Books
NumberOfItems 1
NumberOfPages 608
ProductGroup Book
PublicationDate 2010-11-01
Publisher Viva Books
SKU G9781846681479
Studio Viva Books
Title Why the West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future
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