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'Why The West Has Won' provides a history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success.

A brilliant history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success. Instead of weighing up the West thro

Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest

Finally the Truth about the Rise of the West Modernity developed only in the West—in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; n

Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeol