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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

by Ian Morris

Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West’s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, a

Publisher

Picador

Publication date

Oct 25, 2011

Format

Print edition

Pages

768

ISBN

9780312611699