"Published to accompany the exhibition Civilization: the way we live now, co-produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis/New York/Paris/Lausanne and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea"--Copyright page.
Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.
"Civilization" is the definitive history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance--and the "killer applications" that made this improbable ascent possible: competition, science, the rule of law, consumerism, modern medicine, and ...
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.
This classic volume is now available in paperback. No better teacher of general anthropology can be imagined than A. L. Kroeber.
Traces the history of the world's major civilizations discussing their special characteristics and contributions.
Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994).
A stunningly ambitious and entertaining novel that gives us a counter-factual history of the modern world, from the author of the international bestseller HHhH. Binet's best book yet- the work of a major writer just hitting his stride.
America was offering the world a new kind of politics, and new answers to the questions of who should rule and how. On April 30, I 789, George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States.
Petrarch, Sonnets, tr. Jos. Auslander, 126. 6. Epistolae variae, no. 25, in Whitcomb, Literary Source-book of the Italian Renaissance, 13. 7. Renan, Averroes, 328. 8. Robinson and Rolf, 107. 9. Hutton, E., Giovanni Boccaccio, 3-5. 10.
But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Thomas Cahill's Heretics and Heroes.