Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future

by Ian Morris

Book Overview

A "New York Times" Notable Book for 2011 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, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374290024
• ISBN13: 9780374290023
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 750 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"