Civilization: Is the West History?
Niall Ferguson investigates how western civilization came to dominate the world.
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Seasons
1.Competition
06-03-201145mThe first episode begins in 1420 when Ming China had a credible claim to be the most advanced civilization in the world: 'All Under Heaven'. England on the eve of the Wars of the R...
2.Science
13-03-201145mIn 1683 the Ottoman army laid siege to Vienna, the capital of Europe's most powerful empire. Domination of West by East was an alarmingly plausible scenario. But the Ottoman army w...
3.Property
20-03-201145mFerguson asks why North America succeeded while Latin America for so many centuries lagged behind. The two had much in common (not least the subjugation of indigenous peoples and t...
4.Medicine
27-03-201145mThe French Empire consciously set out to civilize Africa by improving public health as well as building a modern infrastructure. Yet in other European empires – notably Germany's i...
5.Consumerism
03-04-201145mToday the world is becoming more homogenous and, with increasingly few exceptions, big-name brands dominate main streets, high streets and shopping malls all around the globe. We d...
6.Work
10-04-201145mThe sixth element that enabled the West to dominate the rest was the work ethic. Max Weber famously linked it to Protestantism, but the reality is that any culture, regardless of r...
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