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020			_a978-1846682087
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100			_aMorris, Ian.
245		0	_aWhy the West rules-- for now _bthe patterns of history, and what they reveal about the future
260			_aNew York _bStraus and Giroux _c2010
300			_axiii, 750 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [679]-723) and index.
520			_aIn 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.
650			_aCivilization, Western.
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