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Why The West Rules - For Now
The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future
Ian Morris
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Why did British boats shoot their way up the Yangzi in 1842, rather than Chinese ones up the Thames? Why do Easterners use English more than Europeans speak in Mandarin or Japanese? To put it bluntly, why does the West rule? There are two schools of thought: the 'Long-Term Lock In' theory, suggesting some sort of inevitability, and the 'Short-Term Accident' theory. But both approaches have misunderstood the shape of history.
Ian Morris presents a startling new theory. He explains with flair and authority why the paths of development differed in the East and West and - analysing a vicious twist in trajectories just ahead of us - predicts when the West's lead will come to an end.
'Here you have three books wrapped into one: an exciting novel that happens to be true; an entertaining but thorough historical account of everything important that happened to any important people in the last 10 millennia; and an educated guess about what will happen in the future. Read, learn, and enjoy!' Jared Diamond
'A great work of synthesis and argument, drawing together an awesome range of materials and authorities to bring us a fresh, sharp reading of East-West relationships.' Andrew Marr
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s] lively prose and impressive combination of scholarship . . . with economics and science. A superior contribution to the grand-theory-of-human-history genre
A formidable, richly engrossing effort to determine why Western institutions dominate the world . . . Readers will enjoy [Morris'
A formidable, richly engrossing effort to determine why Western institutions dominate the world . . . Readers will enjoy [Morris'
Morris handles huge ideas and transglobal theories with a breathtaking ease and humour
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<p>Ian Morris has returned history to the position it once held. No longer a series of dusty debates, nor simple stories - although he has many stories to tell and tells them brilliantly - but the true 'magister vitae' - the 'teacher of life'. He explains how the shadowy East-West divide came about, why it really does matter, and how one day it might end up. His vision is dazzling, and his prose irresistible. Everyone from Sheffield to Shanghai who wants to know, not only how they came to be who and where<br>they are, but where their children and their children's children might one day end up, must read this book.'
<p>Ian Morris has returned history to the position it once held. No longer a series of dusty debates, nor simple stories - although he has many stories to tell and tells them brilliantly - but the true 'magister vitae' - the 'teacher of life'. He explains how the shadowy East-West divide came about, why it really does matter, and how one day it might end up. His vision is dazzling, and his prose irresistible. Everyone from Sheffield to Shanghai who wants to know, not only how they came to be who and where<br>they are, but where their children and their children's children might one day end up, must read this book.'
Here you have three books wrapped into one: an exciting novel that happens to be true; an entertaining but thorough historical account of everything important that happened to any important people in the last 10 millennia; and an educated guess about what will happen in the future. Read, learn, and enjoy!
This is an astonishing work by Ian Morris: hundreds of pages of the latest information dealing with every aspect of change. Then, the questions of the future: What will a new distribution bring about? Will Europe undergo a major change? Will the millions of immigrants impose a new set of rules on the rest? There was a time when Europe could absorb any and all newcomers. Now the newcomers may dictate the terms. The West may continue to rule, but the rule may be very different.
- a technological quantum leap beyond our traditional limitations as a species - or for a disastrous nightfall brought on by climate change, famine, state failure, mass migration, pandemic disease, and nuclear war? Readers will find nothing better on the subject than his final, mind-blowing chapter.</p>
<p>Morris' new book illustrates perfectly why one really scholarly book about the past is worth a hundred fanciful works of futurology. Morris is the world's most talented ancient historian, a man as much at home with state of- the-art archaeology as with the classics as they used to be studied. Here, he has brilliantly pulled off what few modern academics would dare to attempt: a single-volume history of the world that offers a bold and original answer to the question, Why did the societies that make up "the West" pull ahead of "the Rest" not once but twice, and most spectacularly in the modern era after around 1500? Wearing his impressive erudition lightly - indeed, writing with a wit and clarity that will delight the lay reader - Morris uses his own ingenious index of social development as the basis for his answer.<br><br>...<br><br>Precisely because he has such a profound understanding of the ways that culture, technology, and geography interact over the very long run, Morris is better qualified than almost anyone else to answer the final question he asks: Is the world heading for "the Singularity"
<p>Morris' new book illustrates perfectly why one really scholarly book about the past is worth a hundred fanciful works of futurology. Morris is the world's most talented ancient historian, a man as much at home with state of- the-art archaeology as with the classics as they used to be studied. Here, he has brilliantly pulled off what few modern academics would dare to attempt: a single-volume history of the world that offers a bold and original answer to the question, Why did the societies that make up "the West" pull ahead of "the Rest" not once but twice, and most spectacularly in the modern era after around 1500? Wearing his impressive erudition lightly - indeed, writing with a wit and clarity that will delight the lay reader - Morris uses his own ingenious index of social development as the basis for his answer.<br><br>...<br><br>Precisely because he has such a profound understanding of the ways that culture, technology, and geography interact over the very long run, Morris is better qualified than almost anyone else to answer the final question he asks: Is the world heading for "the Singularity"
A path-breaking work that lays out what modern history should look like.
is both a riveting drama and a major step towards an integrated theory of history.
Morris' history of world dominance sparkles as much with exotic ideas as with extraordinary tales. 'Why The West Rules - For Now'
Morris' history of world dominance sparkles as much with exotic ideas as with extraordinary tales. 'Why The West Rules - For Now'
, he asks himself and us? The answer can only be - a very great deal indeed.
Ian Morris is a classical archaeologist, an ancient historian and a writer of such breathtaking vision and scope as to make him fit to be ranked alongside the likes of Jared Diamond and David Landes. His magnum opus is a tour not just <i>d'horizon</i> but <i>de force</i>, taking us as it does on a spectacular journey to and from and many points between the two nodal cores of a euramerican West and a far east Asian East, alighting and reflecting as suggestively upon 10,800 BC as upon AD 2010. The shape of globalizing history may well never be quite the same again. 'So what'
Ian Morris is a classical archaeologist, an ancient historian and a writer of such breathtaking vision and scope as to make him fit to be ranked alongside the likes of Jared Diamond and David Landes. His magnum opus is a tour not just <i>d'horizon</i> but <i>de force</i>, taking us as it does on a spectacular journey to and from and many points between the two nodal cores of a euramerican West and a far east Asian East, alighting and reflecting as suggestively upon 10,800 BC as upon AD 2010. The shape of globalizing history may well never be quite the same again. 'So what'
At last - a brilliant historian with a light touch. We should all rejoice.
s 1987 work,
<i>The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers</i> ... this is an important book-one that challenges, stimulates and entertains. Anyone who does not believe there are lessons to be learned from history should start here.
A remarkable book that may come to be as widely read as Paul Kennedy'
A remarkable book that may come to be as widely read as Paul Kennedy'
s population spikes, Morris weaves lessons from thousands of years of world history towards a startling and scary conclusion.
This is a great work of synthesis and argument, drawing together an awesome range of materials and authorities to bring us a fresh, sharp reading of East-West relationships. As China rises and the world'
This is a great work of synthesis and argument, drawing together an awesome range of materials and authorities to bring us a fresh, sharp reading of East-West relationships. As China rises and the world'
A provocative and extraordinary contribution to wide-screen comparative history ... a true banquet of ideas
The nearest thing to a unified field theory of history we are ever likely to get. With wit and wisdom, Ian Morris deploys the techniques and insights of the new ancient history to address the biggest of all historical questions: Why on earth did the West beat the Rest? I loved it.
<i>Why the West Rules for Now</i> marshalls enormous historical evidence for how geography influences imbalanced between West and East
Perhaps the smartest and sanest guide to the 21st Century so far
Deeply thought-provoking and engagingly lively, broad in sweep and precise in detail.
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