PublishedProfile Books, August 2011 |
ISBN9781846682087 |
FormatSoftcover, 768 pages |
Dimensions19.4cm × 12.8cm × 4.6cm |
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? Archaeologist and historian Ian Morris offers surprising new answers to both questions.