Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future by Ian Morris

Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future

Ian Morris

750 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the West's rise to power, and computers and nuclear w...

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