Why the West Rules - For Now Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future

Author(s): Ian Morris

History

Secondhand.


Why does the West rule? Eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing uniquely on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science. In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the West's rise to power, and computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Today, however, many worry that the emergence of China and India spell the end of the West as a superpower. How long will the power of the West last? And in order to find out we need to know: why has the West been so dominant for the past two hundred years?


With flair and authority, historian and achaeologist Ian Morris draws uniquely on 15,000 years of history to offer fresh insights on what the future will bring. Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why The West Rules - For Now" is a gripping and truly original history of the world.


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Winner of PEN Center USA Awards: Research Nonfiction Category 2011.

Ian Morris is Willard professor of classics, professor of history and a fellow of the Archaeology Centre at Stanford University. He has written and edited a number of academic books and has appeared on a number of television networks. This is his first trade book.

General Fields

  • : 9781846682087
  • : Profile Books Limited
  • : Profile Books Ltd
  • : May 2011
  • : United Kingdom
  • : August 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ian Morris
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 909.09821
  • : 768
  • : Illustrations, maps