Tantor Media
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A history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance offers insight into the development of such concepts as competition, modern medicine, and the work ethic, arguing that Western dominance is being lost to cultures who are more productively utilizing Western techniques.
"The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years. All over the world, an astonishing...
2) Civilization
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From one of our most renowned historians, Civilization: The West and the Rest is the definitive history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance--and the "killer applications" that made this improbable ascent possible.