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WHY THE WEST RULES - FOR NOW

Ian Morris

The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future - Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, NY., 2010, 750 pgs., index, bibliography, end notes, paperback

 
 

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Introduction

 
 

Part I

 
 

 Chapter 1 - Before East and West

 
 

Chapter 2 - The West Takes the Lead

 
 

Chapter 3 - Taking the Measure of the Past

 
 

 Part II

 
 

Chapter 4 -The East Catches Up

 
 

Chapter 5 - Neck and Neck

 
 

Chapter 6 - Decline and Fall

 
 

Chapter 7 - The Eastern Age

 
 

Chapter 8 - Going Global

 
 

Chapter 9 -The West Catches Up

 
 

 Chapter 10 - The Western Age

 
 

Part III

 
 

Chapter 11 - Why the West Rules

 
 

Chapter 12 -... For Now

 
 

Appendix I

 

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