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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future, by Ian Morris

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I described the historian Kenneth Pomeranz’s complaints about how comparative historians often skew analysis of why the West rules by sloppily comparing tiny England with enormous China and concluding that the West already led the East by 1750 CE.
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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
by Ian Morris
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