TY - BOOK AU - Ferguson,Niall TI - Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power SN - 1846142733 U1 - 909.08 PY - 2011/// CY - London, New York PB - Penguin Books KW - History, Modern KW - Comparative civilization KW - East and West KW - Cultuur N2 - 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 UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36122 ER -