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The Rise Of The West
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Author : William H. McNeill
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-07-30
The Rise Of The West written by William H. McNeill and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-30 with History categories.
The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim. In a retrospective essay titled "The Rise of the West after Twenty-five Years," McNeill shows how his book was shaped by the time and place in which it was written (1954-63). He discusses how historiography subsequently developed and suggests how his portrait of the world's past in The Rise of the West should be revised to reflect these changes. "This is not only the most learned and the most intelligent, it is also the most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind. . . . To read it is a great experience. It leaves echoes to reverberate, and seeds to germinate in the mind."—H. R. Trevor-Roper, New York Times Book Review
The Rise Of The West
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Author : William Hardy McNeill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
The Rise Of The West written by William Hardy McNeill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.
The Rise Of The West
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Author : William Hardy McNeill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The Rise Of The West written by William Hardy McNeill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Civilization categories.
Why Europe The Rise Of The West In World History 1500 1850
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Author : Jack A. Goldstone
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Release Date : 2009
Why Europe The Rise Of The West In World History 1500 1850 written by Jack A. Goldstone and has been published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Explores one of the biggest questions of historical debate: how among Eurasia's interconnected centers of power, it was Europe that came to dominate much of the world.
Historians Debate The Rise Of The West
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Author : Jonathan Daly
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-11
Historians Debate The Rise Of The West written by Jonathan Daly and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with History categories.
How and why did Europe rise to world pre-eminence? Providing an overview of this central historical conundrum of modern times, Historians Debate the Rise of the West enables students to grasp major scholars’ evaluations of the biggest picture of all: how Western civilization fits into modern world history. Most historians who write in this area subscribe to a combination of interpretations set forward by scholars of the field, like David Landes, Jared Diamond or Kenneth Pomeranz. But it is often difficult to understand the position they are coming from, and for readers to understand clearly how Europe made the transition from merely one of many developing civilizations to the world’s first industrial power. In this volume, Jonathan Daly introduces us to the main interpretations of Europe’s rise that have been proposed over the past half-century and presents the views of these historians and schools of scholarship, advocating for each point of view and letting each author speak for him or herself through the inclusion of brief textual selections. Also included are interesting biographical details for each scholar, as well as a list of further reading for each chapter and a collection of maps. An ideal introduction for students of world history.
The Rise Of The West
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Author : William Hardy McNeill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
The Rise Of The West written by William Hardy McNeill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Civilization categories.
Global Economic History A Very Short Introduction
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Author : Robert C. Allen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-09-15
Global Economic History A Very Short Introduction written by Robert C. Allen and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with Business & Economics categories.
Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer.
Civilization
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Author : Niall Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-03-03
Civilization written by Niall Ferguson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-03 with History categories.
DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR 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.
Historians Debate The Rise Of The West
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Author : Jonathan W. Daly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-11
Historians Debate The Rise Of The West written by Jonathan W. Daly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with History categories.
"Discusses major scholars' evaluations of how Western civilization fits into modern world history. An introduction for students of Western civilization and world history to the main interpretations of Europe's rise that have been proposed since the middle of the twentieth century"--Del editor.
The Rise Of The West
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Author : William H. McNeill
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1992-01-01
The Rise Of The West written by William H. McNeill and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with History categories.
The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim. In a retrospective essay titled "The Rise of the West after Twenty-five Years," McNeill shows how his book was shaped by the time and place in which it was written (1954-63). He discusses how historiography subsequently developed and suggests how his portrait of the world's past in The Rise of the West should be revised to reflect these changes. "This is not only the most learned and the most intelligent, it is also the most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind. . . . To read it is a great experience. It leaves echoes to reverberate, and seeds to germinate in the mind."—H. R. Trevor-Roper, New York Times Book Review