The Singularity of Western Innovation: The Language Nexus

by Leonard Dudley

This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the main cultural centers of three Western states - Britain, France, and the United states. This book argues that Western Europe and its offshoots were the only Eurasian societies able to apply...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137403179
• ISBN13: 9781137403179
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"