Why the West rules--for now : the patterns of history, and what they reveal about the future
(2010)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
909.09821/MORRIS,I
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2010]
©2010
©2010
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 750 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374290023 (hardcover : alk. paper), 0374290024 (hardcover : alk. paper), 0374290024 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Archaeologist and historian Ian Morris explains that Western dominance is largely the result of the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, however, the world over the next hundred years will subsequently change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process