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Why The West Rules ? For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future Book
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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.
- 9781846681479
- 9781846681479
- Ian Morris
- 4 November 2010
- Profile Books
- Hardcover (Book)
- 608
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