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• Publisher : Faber & Faber
• File Size : 51,8 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2024

'Why The West Has Won' provides a history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success.

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 24,6 Mb
• Release Date : 11 July 2023

Finally the Truth about the Rise of the West Modernity developed only in the West—in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was

• Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
• File Size : 24,5 Mb
• Release Date : 14 January 2011

Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science,

• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 43,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2011

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower “A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic

• Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
• File Size : 27,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 2011

Now everyone will know the truth. Without the Irish, the American frontiermay never have been tamed.

• Publisher : Anchor
• File Size : 41,7 Mb
• Release Date : 18 December 2007

Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 48,6 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 1991

Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.

• Publisher : PublicAffairs
• File Size : 49,8 Mb
• Release Date : 31 March 2020

The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable? China and America

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 51,8 Mb
• Release Date : 30 July 2009

The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view

• Publisher : Penguin UK
• File Size : 54,6 Mb
• Release Date : 05 April 2018

The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to