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  -