TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morris, Ian.
TI  - Why the West rules-- for now: the patterns of history, and what they reveal about the future
SN  - 978-1846682087
U1  - 909/.09MOR 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Straus and Giroux
KW  - Civilization, Western
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [679]-723) and index
N2  - In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the West's rise to power, and computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Today, however, many worry that the emergence of China and India spell the end of the West as a superpower
ER  -