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Loading... Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (original 2010; edition 2010)by Ian Morris (Author)
Work InformationWhy the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris (Author) (2010)
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) johnclaydon | Jun 2, 2022 |  This gives a nice overview of the rise and expansion of various proto-states in China, then Empires, Dynasties and the ebb and flow of history there. I am sure a China specific book would be more detailed but this overview is the best I have read up until now. I also liked the references to writers like Heinlein, Asimov, Tom Friedman and others that I have read. They were both appropriate and familiar. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in History, Economy, Archaeology or the broad sweep of civilizations. (  ) mgplavin | Oct 3, 2021 | http://meganeasleywalshauthor.blogspot.ie/2015/02/writer-wednesday-why-west-rule... (  ) Megan.Easley-Walsh | Dec 9, 2016 |  ) zhoud2005 | Jul 8, 2016 | ) M_Clark | Apr 25, 2016 |
 A British-born archaeologist, classicist and historian now at Stanford University, Morris is the historians’ equivalent of those physicists who search for a still elusive unified field theory. In his new book, he sets out to discover broad patterns, “the overall ‘shape’ of history,” by sifting through the world’s long development process. Following the oscillating forces from prehistory to the present, he shows how both the East and West managed to catalyze themselves at different times and in different ways to progressively new heights of development. But his ultimate challenge is to make sense of all these cycles of rise and fall, the better to judge whether either side was in possession of any innate superiority. His answer to that question is an emphatic no. East and West, he tells us, are just “geographical labels, not value judgments.”  Morris’s attempt to tackle the history of the world, while refreshing, might be dismissed as the exercise of a 19th-century generalist fraught with 21st-century specialist perils.
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. No library descriptions found. |
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