Is the West History?
Civilisation Is The West History? ep1 Civilisation Is the West History? ep2 Science Civilisation Is the West History? ep3 Property Civilisation - Is the West History? ep4 Medicine Civilisation - Is the West History? ep5 Consumer Civilisation - Is the West History? ep6 Work | Niall Ferguson asks why it was that Western civilization, from inauspicious roots in the 15th century, came to dominate the rest of the world; and if the West is about to be overtaken by the rest. Ferguson reveals the killer apps of the West’s success – competition, science, the property owning democracy, modern medicine, the consumer society and the Protestant work ethic – the real explanation of how, for five centuries, a clear minority of mankind managed to secure the lion’s share of the earth’s resources. |
