In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. So how did the West come to dominate the Rest? In this vital, brilliant book, Niall Ferguson reveals the killer applications' that did it:
COMPETITION How Europe's small, piratical states built modern capitalism SCIENCE How innovation gave the West the military edge
PROPERTY RIGHTS How the laws of private property built the United States
MEDICINE How colonialism transformed the world's health
THE CONSUMER SOCIETY How shopping made the Industrial Revolution
THE WORK ETHIC How western religious ideas brought it all together
Do we still have these winning tools, he asks? Or is another power about to triumph?
In a very good condition. Some creasing to the spine. All pages are clean and …