From the producers of the International Emmy® Award-winning "The Ascent of Money," "Civilization: The West And The Rest With Niall Ferguson," a two-part series, will rebroadcast on Tuesdays, July ...

His latest, Civilization: The West and the Rest, offers six factors which explain why the West became the greatest civilization in the history of the world: competition, science, property rights ...

But that, Ferguson argues, is the point. A civilization is identifiable because it is based on a common heritage and set of characteristics, yet it is richly diverse.

Around the year 1400, things were not looking up for the continent of Europe. The place, historian Niall Ferguson writes in Civilization: The West and the Rest , “… ...

In the first of a planned two-volume Henry Kissinger biography, Harvard historian Ferguson (Civilization: The West and the Rest) traces Kissinger’s life from his birth in Germany in 1923 ...

The same problem may await Niall Ferguson's new book, Civilization: The West and the Rest, which argues that the Western world surged ahead because it developed six "killer apps". These "apps", as ...

Source: Ferguson, Niall. Civilization: The West and the Rest. p. 6 So it’s very concerning that modern America is moving away from innovation and technological advancement in the military.

Civilization is often beguiling in its detail. Ferguson is good at arresting comparisons. His pairings of places, people and events keeps the argument racing along. The Thames of 15th-century ...

I thought then that it was a clear, convincing argument, and a jolly page-turner too. But I jest, of course. I did indeed read that book, The West and the Rest, but it was written by Roger Scruton.