Uygarlık- Batılılık ve Ötekiler

The central question addressed by this book increasingly seems to me to be the most interesting question a modern historian can pose. Why exactly did a few small polities at the western edge of the Eurasian landmass come to dominate the rest of the world, including the more populous and in many respects more advanced societies of Eastern Eurasia, from around 1500 onwards? My second related question is this: If we can find a good explanation for the West's past superiority, can we predict its future? Does this really mean the end of the Western world and the transition to a new Eastern age? In other words, the greater part of humanity was converted to the civilization that emerged in Western Europe in the wake of the Renaissance and the Reformation - in the ages of revolution, industry and empire, set in motion by the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment, and spreading across the Atlantic and as far as Australasia. Are we witnessing the end of an age to which it was more or less dependent - civilization at its zenith?



Number of Pages: 392

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yapı Kredi Publications

Number of Pages: 392

First Print Year: 2012

Language Turkish