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001 2010681251
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008 110328s2011 enkab b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a1846142733
020 $a9781846142734
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn704199921
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050 00 $aD208$b.F47 2011
082 04 $a909.08$222
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100 1 $aFerguson, Niall.
245 10 $aCivilization :$bthe west and the rest /$cNiall Ferguson.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bAllen Lane,$c2011.
300 $axxx, 402 p :$bill. (some col.), maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 348-378) and index.
520 $aWhat 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.
650 0 $aHistory, Modern.
650 0 $aComparative civilization.
650 0 $aEast and West.
650 17 $aCultuur$2gtt