Civilization: The West and the Rest - Niall Ferguson Audiobook
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Civilisation
Competition
Consumerism
Democracy
History
Medicine
Politics
Science
Work-Ethic
World History
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If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe - Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland - would have seemed little better. As for fifteenth-century North America, it was an anarchic wilderness compared with the realms of the Aztecs and Incas. The idea that the West would come to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would have struck you as wildly fanciful. And yet it happened.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. Civilization takes readers on their own extraordinary journey around the world - from the Grand Canal at Nanjing to the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul; from Machu Picchu in the Andes to Shark Island, Namibia; from the proud towers of Prague to the secret churches of Wenzhou. It is the story of sailboats, missiles, land deeds, vaccines, blue jeans and Chinese Bibles. It is the defining narrative of modern world history.
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This post has 15 comments with rating of 2.5/5
October 25th, 2020
Ah racism. This book is full of crap.
October 25th, 2020
ariddles. Exactly. Odious man who can’t handle people disagreeing with him.
October 25th, 2020
Thanks!
It’s certainly not racist to speculate on why history unfolded the way it did.
October 25th, 2020
Excellent book, thank you.
October 26th, 2020
well, I guess and most important of all were weapons, thousands of battles and hundreds of wars among themselves did advance the weapons of Europe, which was the real reason they defeated anyone…
October 26th, 2020
True enough: Europeans have a long, storied tradition of killing each other as well. A grim phenomenon which Niall would no doubt also regard as “practice” - then they had the element of surprise when they used their technology (navigational instruments - very important) and vessels of travel to sneak up on the unsuspecting. Their opposition, as Blackadder sagaciously observed, tended to be armed with dried fruit.
Also helpful for the imperialists was the fact that, when they arrived, the native people were busily employed in killing each other and being viciously divided.
October 26th, 2020
@caesar963 … well, the real mystery is why the so called gun powder empires (Ottomans, Mughals, Safavids) or the Chinese didn’t end up taking over, and/or how they ended up crumbling so fast. The Ottomans did indeed almost take over Europe. The Chinese were poised to embark on voyages of exploration 50 years before Columbus, and that got stopped by an Emperor.
I don’t know… I’m sure there are many reasons. Guess I need to read the book.
October 26th, 2020
@ehead - Good points. Additional possible reasons: vigorous competition within Europe; technological & scientific innovation; p’haps something as nebulous as a motivating spirit of adventure? (Disclaimer: I detest imperialism, my people were victims of a particularly brutal, local, early variation. The experimental phase of the evil beast, which was then exported globally)
October 26th, 2020
Irish?
October 26th, 2020
Guilty as charged. You must be Belgian (Hercule Poirot)
October 30th, 2020
Ferguson is a Chauvinist.
November 7th, 2020
Europeans had a religion which was easily used to justify murder and slavery and they used that along with steel, sails and gunpowder to slaughter any opposition.
November 23rd, 2020
I would have said guns, more guns, ammunition, more ammunition, and diseases. That’s 5. Ok, even more ammunition.
July 7th, 2021
“History” written on the basis of the dumbest possible assumptions that the author deliberately leaves unexamined in order to push his agenda. Actual historians will laugh, ignorant retards will lap it up.
April 21st, 2024
Thank you
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