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Civilization : the six killer apps of western power / Niall Ferguson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Allen Lane, 2011.Description: xxx, 402 p : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780141044583
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.08 22
Summary: What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six "killer applications"?that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy.
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Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Available at Centre for Social Science Research 909.08 F351c 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 023061
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-378) and index.

What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six "killer applications"?that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy.