Niall Ferguson: Civilization | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780141987934 | Civilization | The West and the Rest | Niall Ferguson | Taschenbuch

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Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013
In [...]ope was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. Yet, somehow, the West came to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium.

In this vital, brilliant book, Niall Ferguson reveals the six 'killer applications' that the Rest lacked: competition, science, property rights, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. And he asks: do we still have these winning tools? Or is this the end of Western ascendancy?

'Brilliantly written, full of wit and virtuosity, stuffed with memorable lines and gorgeous bits of information. A great read' The Times

'A dazzling history of Western ideas ... epic' Economist

'Vivid and fascinating' Daily Telegraph

'Superb ... brings history alive ... dazzling' Independent

'This is sharp. It feels urgent. Ferguson ... twists his knife with great literary brio' Andrew Marr, Financial Times

Über den Autor

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His many other prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013). He was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press Awards.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Zeitgeschichte & Politik
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	ab 1949
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	XXX 402 S. 16 farbige Bildtaf.
ISBN-13:	9780141987934
ISBN-10:	0141987936
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	455236
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ferguson, Niall
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Penguin Penguin Press Penguin Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Abbildungen:	2 x 8pp colour
Maße:	195 x 128 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Niall Ferguson
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.06.2018
Gewicht:	0,357 kg

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