Why the West Rules - For Now
The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future
(Sprache: Englisch)
Why did British boats shoot their way up the Yangzi in 1842, rather than Chinese ones up the Thames? Why do Easterners use English more than Europeans speak in Mandarin or Japanese? To put it bluntly, why does the West rule? Ian Morris presents a new...
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Why did British boats shoot their way up the Yangzi in 1842, rather than Chinese ones up the Thames? Why do Easterners use English more than Europeans speak in Mandarin or Japanese? To put it bluntly, why does the West rule? Ian Morris presents a new theory, drawing on thousands of years of history and archaeology, ...
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Ian Morris
Ian Morris ist gebürtiger Brite und seit zwanzig Jahren Historiker und Archäologe an der University of Chicago und der Stanford University. Er ist Autor zahlreicher Veröffentlichungen und häufig Studiogast im amerikanischen Fernsehen. Seine Arbeiten sind preisgekrönt und werden gefördert u.a. von der Guggenheim Foundation und der National Geographic Society. Von 2000 bis 2006 leitete er Ausgrabungen auf dem Monte Polizzo, Sizilien, eines der größten archäologischen Projekte im westlichen Mittelmeerraum.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ian Morris
- 2010, 608 Seiten, Maße: 16,5 x 5,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 1846681472
- ISBN-13: 9781846681479
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
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'A writer of such breathtaking vision and scope as to make him fit to be ranked alongside the likes of Jared Diamond and David Landes' - Professor Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge University 'Here you have three books wrapped into one: an exciting novel that happens to be true; an entertaining but thorough historical account of everything important that happened to any important people in the last 10 millennia; and an educated guess about what will happen in the future. Read, learn, and enjoy!' Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography, UCLA, and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, and Natural Experiments of History
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