SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Niall Ferguson, Jared Diamond, Killer Application

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Ecology
• Course: SOCECOL E8
• Professor: John M.Whiteley

Document Summary

Civilization: the west and the rest by niall ferguson. Niall ferguson is a renowned historian: laurence a. tisch professor of history at. Harvard university, senior research fellow of jesus college of oxford university, and senior research fellow of the hoover institution at stanford university. There have been some provocative reviews of civilization. Financial times of the united kingdom said ferguson ends by suggesting that the biggest threat is not china but ourselves our cowardice, drawn from ignorance, even stupidity, about our past. But, as he shows himself, that can be fixed. The herald scotland of the united kingdom chose to emphasizing other elements of. Ferguson"s analysis of the unstable equilibrium that is the global economic system is informed, enlightening, and frightening. And his account of the rise and fall of western civilization is a brilliant exercise in concise, intelligent narrative history.