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2011
The West once ruled more than half the world. The religion it exported is still followed by a third of mankind. Above all, the way people live — or aspire to live — is unmistakably an invention of the West.
But are we living through the beginning of the end of the West’s ascendancy? Once so dominant, the economies of the United States and Europe are now facing the real prospect of being overtaken by China within a generation. There is mounting scepticism, too, about the West’s recipe of the free market plus democracy. The Protestant ethic of thrift that once seemed so central to the Western project has all but vanished. And, of course, Western societies are beset by almost millenarian fears of a coming environmental apocalypse.
Yet the study of other civilisations should not lead us to think that there was nothing special about the West. There was — and this remarkable new series sets out to explain what it was.
Niall Ferguson explains how by juxtaposing the West and ‘the Rest’, we can uncover the keys — the six killer applications — of Western ascendancy: the real explanation of how, for roughly five centuries, a clear minority of mankind managed to secure the lion’s share of the Earth’s resources.
Intelligent, entertaining, educational and visually stunning, Civilization will do more for the public understanding of world history than any series since the original BBC programme of the same name by Kenneth Clark.
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