Why The West Rules- for Now: The Patterns of History, and What they Reveal about the Future

Morris, Ian

Verlag: Profile Books London 2010

Beschreibung

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo xiii + 750pp., b/w pls., maps, appendix, bibliog., index, 'In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the West's rise to power, and computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Today, however, many worry that the emergence of China and India spell the end of the West as a superpower'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 137445

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Titel: Why The West Rules- for Now: The Patterns of...

Verlag: Profile Books London 2010

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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