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Civilization: the West and the Rest Is My Mom

It 's the title of the new book by Niall Ferguson , published by Allen Lane. William Skidelsky talks with noted historian on Guardian. "... It's a book That Belongs at the more populist end of the Ferguson oeuvre. In fact, he [Ferguson] says, he largely wrote it with His children in mind. (He has three, two sons and a daughter, ranging from 11 to 17.) 'The book is designed Partly know a 17-year-old boy or girl will get a lot of history in a very digestible way, and be able to relate to it,' ... Civilization sets out to answer a question that Ferguson identifies as the 'most interesting' facing historians of the modern era: ' Why, beginning around 1500, did a few small polities on the western end of the Eurasian landmass come to dominate the rest of the world? ' In other words, the book attempts to explain the roots of something – western power – that has long fascinated its author." guardian .