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AUTHOR
Ferguson, Niall.
TITLE
Civilization : the six killer apps of western power / Niall Ferguson.
IMPRINT
London : Penguin Books, 2012.
DESCRIPTION
402 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 20 cm.
NOTE
Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2011.
SUMMARY
Looks at the winning tools of Western power such as 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; and, Medicine - How colonialism transformed the world's health.
SUBJECT
Civilization, Modern.
SUBJECT
Civilization, Western.
SUBJECT
Comparative civilization.
SUBJECT
East and West.
SUBJECT
Globalization.
SUBJECT
Twenty-first century.
DISCIPLINE
World History.
ISBN
9780141044583.
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Status
English Book Collection
909.08 FER
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