The A train
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Civilization
- The West and the Rest
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Niall Ferguson
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe - Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland - would have seemed little better.
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An illuminating wide-angled telescope
- De Lauren L en 02-03-17
- Civilization
- The West and the Rest
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Niall Ferguson
Well written, hard working.
Revisado: 01-27-17
The author works hard to show the critical thinking that has kept homo sapiens ahead of the herd and though he is ready for the baton handover from US to China, he hasn't missed a beat in catching the convolutions of the Turks the Ottomans and the west's rise to supremacy with technology largely because of the Economic Social and political institutions from the ubiquitous blue jeans to the British colonies' larger land grants to its migrant white populations.
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