by Niall Ferguson · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781846144561
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«Civilization: The West and the Rest» is the historical essay by Niall Ferguson, published by Penguin Books, Limited, in paperback (400 pages, in English).
Ferguson starts from the superiority of Eastern civilisations in the fifteenth century to explain how Western Europe, then marginal, ended up dominating the world for five hundred years. He identifies six keys to that success —competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumption and the work ethic— and asks whether the West has lost its monopoly.
A work of history, politics and economics originally published in 2011. The cover promotes its adaptation as a Channel 4 series.
For readers of history, politics and economics, especially those who follow the debate on the rise and possible decline of the West in today's world.
Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics for the 2023/2024 academic year and at Tsinghua University in China from 2019 to 2020.
