How The West Was Lost

Author : Dambisa Moyo
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781553659273

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How the West Was Lost by Dambisa Moyo Pdf

A bold account of the decline of the West's economic supremacy and radical solutions to reverse the drift. Bestselling author Dambisa Moyo gives a fresh insider's perspective on the erosion of Western power over the past 50 years. She examines how the West's flawed financial decisions and blinkered political and military choices have resulted in an economic and geopolitical seesaw that is now poised to favour the emerging world. Moyo is uniquely positioned to examine the West's errors and the techniques the emerging countries used to rise on the global economic stage: As a former economist and banker she gives a new perspective on the dramatic shifts in the global economy Her "Wall Street" vantage point captures the nuances of what role the financial sector had in the decline of Western power Her world view as someone neither from the West nor from any of the emerging countries produces an unbiased, non-Western analysis Moyo daringly claims that the West can no longer afford to regard the up-and-comers simply as menacing gatecrashers and proposes radical solutions it needs to adopt in order to reassert itself as a global economic power.

Author : Alexander Boot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857713360

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What made the West 'western'? And has Western civilisation found modernity but lost itself? This provocative and stimulating polemic argues that western culture and civilisation have been destroyed not only in, but indeed by, modernity. How the West Was Lost argues that all modern upheavals – the Reformation, the English, American, French and Russian Revolutions, the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, both World Wars – can only be understood if seen as resulting in an assault on the core values of the West. At its heart lies the belief that the central conflict of our time is cultural and that traditional culture and civilised society have been under attack ever since the Enlightenment. The author traces the development of Western civilisation from its origins – paradoxically in the East – and examines what he sees as its inexorable decline in all forms of art and all walks of life. He asks uncomfortable questions about politics, philosophy, psychology and religion and suggests answers which are provocative and unorthodox. This book is a bold and challenging attempt to present a new concept of modern history for our complacent times. The results are often unexpected but always original and invigorating.

Author : Stephen Aron
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0801861985

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'How the West Was Lost' tracks the overlapping conquest, colonization, and consolidation of the trans-Appalachian frontier. Not a story of paradise lost, this is a book about possibilities lost. It focuses on the common ground between Indians and backcountry settlers which was not found.

Author : Stephen Anthony Aron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UCAL:C3365994

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Author : Lars Brownworth
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307407962

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Lost to the West by Lars Brownworth Pdf

Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy. For more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat of Christian civilization. When Europe fell into the Dark Ages, Byzantium held fast against Muslim expansion, keeping Christianity alive. Streams of wealth flowed into Constantinople, making possible unprecedented wonders of art and architecture. And the emperors who ruled Byzantium enacted a saga of political intrigue and conquest as astonishing as anything in recorded history. Lost to the West is replete with stories of assassination, mass mutilation and execution, sexual scheming, ruthless grasping for power, and clashing armies that soaked battlefields with the blood of slain warriors numbering in the tens of thousands.

Author : Melvin Tinker
Publisher : EP BOOKS
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1783972408

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That Hideous Strength: How the West Was Lost by Melvin Tinker Pdf

C S Lewis readers will identify the main title of this new book: Melvin Tinker uses Lewis's prescient fiction work as a launchpad for a fascinating look at the rapidly changing worldview of Western civilization. Too often books dealing with these issues are academically inclined and not accessible by the ordinary reader: that is not the case here. Based on a lecture delivered at GAFCON in June 2018, this book will stimulate thinking and open the eyes of Christians to the dangers of the worldview relentlessly promoted by the media.

Author : Claire Boyles
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393531831

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Site Fidelity: Stories by Claire Boyles Pdf

Finalist for the 2022 Reading the West Debut Fiction Award Finalist for the 2022 Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Set in the western sagebrush steppe, Site Fidelity is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet. Firmly rooted in the modern American West, Site Fidelity follows women and families who feel the instinctual, inexplicable pull of a home they must work to protect from the effects of economic inequity and climate catastrophe. A seventy-four-year-old nun turns to eco-sabotage to stop a fracking project. A woman delivers her own baby in a Nevada ghost town. A young farmer hides her chicken flock from the government during a bird flu epidemic. An ornithologist returns home to care for her rancher father and gets caught up trying to protect a breeding group of endangered Gunnison sage grouse. In lean, lyrical prose, Claire Boyles evokes the bleakness and beauty of our threatened western landscapes. Spanning the decades from the 1970s to a plausible near future, this knockout debut introduces unforgettable characters who must confront the challenges of caregiving and loss alongside the very practical impacts of fracking, water rights law, and other agricultural policies. Site Fidelity is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet.

Author : Colin G. Calloway
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0312133545

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Our Hearts Fell to the Ground by Colin G. Calloway Pdf

This anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources -- including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral histories -- gives students the rare opportunity to view the transformation of the West from Native American perspective. Calloway's introduction offers information on western expansion, territorial struggles among Indian tribes, the slaughter of the buffalo, and forced assimilation through the reservation system. More than 30 pieces of Plains Indian art are included, along with maps, headnotes, questions for consideration, a bibliography, a chronology, and an index.

Author : Mary Eberstadt
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781599474298

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How the West Really Lost God by Mary Eberstadt Pdf

In this magisterial work, leading cultural critic Mary Eberstadt delivers a powerful new theory about the decline of religion in the Western world. The conventional wisdom is that the West first experienced religious decline, followed by the decline of the family. Eberstadt turns this standard account on its head. Marshalling an impressive array of research, from fascinating historical data on family decline in pre-Revolutionary France to contemporary popular culture both in the United States and Europe, Eberstadt shows that the reverse has also been true: the undermining of the family has further undermined Christianity itself. Drawing on sociology, history, demography, theology, literature, and many other sources, Eberstadt shows that family decline and religious decline have gone hand in hand in the Western world in a way that has not been understood before—that they are, as she puts it in a striking new image summarizing the book’s thesis, “the double helix of society, each dependent on the strength of the other for successful reproduction.” In sobering final chapters, Eberstadt then lays out the enormous ramifications of the mutual demise of family and faith in the West. While it is fashionable in some circles to applaud the decline both of religion and the nuclear family, there are, as Eberstadt reveals, enormous social, economic, civic, and other costs attendant on both declines. Her conclusion considers this tantalizing question: whether the economic and demographic crisis now roiling Europe and spreading to America will have the inadvertent result of reviving the family as the most viable alternative to the failed welfare state—fallout that could also lay the groundwork for a religious revival as well. How the West Really Lost God is both a startlingly original account of how secularization happens and a sweeping brief about why everyone should care. A book written for agnostics as well as believers, atheists as well as “none of the above,” it will permanently change the way every reader understands the two institutions that have hitherto undergirded Western civilization as we know it—family and faith—and the real nature of the relationship between those two pillars of history.

Author : Oswald Spengler,Arthur Helps,Charles Francis Atkinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0195066340

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The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler,Arthur Helps,Charles Francis Atkinson Pdf

Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.

Author : Tim Bird,Alex Marshall
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300154580

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Afghanistan by Tim Bird,Alex Marshall Pdf

Examines why the West has failed to achieve its objectives in Afghanistan, discussing the country's drug trade, political corruption, troubled relations with Pakistan, and harsh terrain, and the lessons about nation building that can be learned from the experience.

Author : Stuart BANNER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674020535

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How the Indians Lost Their Land by Stuart BANNER Pdf

Between the early 17th century and the early 20th, nearly all U.S. land was transferred from American Indians to whites. Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers--time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.

Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Limited
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0747507473

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Wild West Movies, Or, How the West was Found, Won, Lost, Lied About, Filmed and Forgotten by Kim Newman Pdf

From his acclaimed study of horror films, Nightmare Movies, Kim Newman turns his attention to the western. Against the backdrop of American history, popular mythology and the development of the cinema, the book examines the main themes and tensions of the genre. With reference to thousands of films and hundreds of directors and actors Newman brings his entertaining, wide-ranging and authoritative approach to bear on one of the cinema's most popular genres - with illuminating results.

Author : Rodney Stark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684516223

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How the West Won by Rodney Stark Pdf

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; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and soap. The question is, Why? Unfortunately, that question has become so politically incorrect that most scholars avoid it. But acclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping new look at Western civilization. How the West Won demonstrates the primacy of uniquely Western ideas—among them the belief in free will, the commitment to the pursuit of knowledge, the notion that the universe functions according to rational rules that can be dis­covered, and the emphasis on human freedom and secure property rights. Taking readers on a thrilling journey from ancient Greece to the present, Stark challenges much of the received wisdom about Western history. Stark also debunks absurd fabrications that have flourished in the past few decades: that the Greeks stole their culture from Africa; that the West’s “discoveries” were copied from the Chinese and Muslims; that Europe became rich by plundering the non-Western world. At the same time, he reveals the woeful inadequacy of recent attempts to attribute the rise of the West to purely material causes—favorable climates, abundant natural resources, guns and steel. How the West Won displays Rodney Stark’s gifts for lively narrative history and making the latest scholarship accessible to all readers. This bold, insightful book will force you to rethink your understanding of the West and the birth of modernity—and to recognize that Western civilization really has set itself apart from other cultures.

Author : Richard Sakwa
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300255010

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The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa Pdf

The first account of the new Cold War--revealing how today's renewed era of global great power competition could threaten us all