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Why the West rules-for now : the patterns of history and what they reveal about the future
Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last? Describing the patterns of human history, the archaeologist and historian Ian Morris offers surprising new answers to both questions. It is not, he reveals, differences of race or culture, or even the strivings of great individuals, that explain Western dominance. It is the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, the world will change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process. Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why the West Rules - for Now spans fifty thousand years of history and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. The book brings together the latest findings across disciplines - from ancient history to neuroscience - not only to explain why the West came to rule the world but also to predict what the future will bring in the next hundred years.
Ancient Egypt and Early China
Although they existed more than a millennium apart, the great
civilizations of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1548-1086 BCE) and Han
dynasty China (206 BCE-220 CE) shared intriguing similarities. Both
were centered around major, flood-prone rivers-the Nile and the
Yellow River-and established complex hydraulic systems to manage
their power. Both spread their territories across vast empires that
were controlled through warfare and diplomacy and underwent periods
of radical reform led by charismatic rulers-the \"heretic king\"
Akhenaten and the vilified reformer Wang Mang. Universal justice
was dispensed through courts, and each empire was administered by
bureaucracies staffed by highly trained scribes who held special
status. Egypt and China each developed elaborate conceptions of an
afterlife world and created games of fate that facilitated access
to these realms.
This groundbreaking volume offers an innovative comparison of
these two civilizations. Through a combination of textual, art
historical, and archaeological analyses, Ancient Egypt and
Early China reveals shared structural traits of each
civilization as well as distinctive features.
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Varieties of Multiple Modernities
This volume collects new research about multiple modernities and globalization. It shows the new turn of sociological theory in the contemporary scene with respect to multiple modernities, multi-centrism, transglobality, hybridization and multiculturalism, comparative cultures, and explores it as a new area of societal communication.
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Ancient Egypt and Early China
The first comparative study of these two early empiresAlthough they existed more than a millennium apart, the great civilizations of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1548-1086 BCE) and Han dynasty China (206 BCE-220 CE) shared intriguing similarities. Both were centered around major, flood-prone rivers-the Nile and the Yellow River-and established complex hydraulic systems to manage their power. Both spread their territories across vast empires that were controlled through warfare and diplomacy and underwent periods of radical reform led by charismatic rulers-the \"heretic king\" Akhenaten and the vilified reformer Wang Mang. Universal justice was dispensed through courts, and each empire was administered by bureaucracies staffed by highly trained scribes who held special status. Egypt and China each developed elaborate conceptions of an afterlife world and created games of fate that facilitated access to these realms.This groundbreaking volume offers an innovative comparison of these two civilizations. Through a combination of textual, art historical, and archaeological analyses, Ancient Egypt and Early China reveals shared structural traits of each civilization as well as distinctive features.
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Transatlantic parallaxes
Anthropological inquiry developed around the study of the exotic. Now that we live in a world that seems increasingly familiar, putatively marked by a spreading sameness, anthropology must re-envision itself. The emergence of diverse national traditions in the discipline offers one intriguing path. This volume, the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States, explores the possibilities of that path through an experiment in the reciprocal production of knowledge. Simultaneously native subjects, foreign experts, and colleagues, these scholars offer novel insights into each other's societies, juxtaposing glimpses of ourselves and a familiar \"others\" to productively unsettle and enrich our understanding of both.
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