SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Niall Ferguson, Jared Diamond, Killer Application

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

Document Summary

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. There have been some provocative reviews of civilization. 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 publisher of civilization chose to emphasize three aspects of the book with parallels to issues addressed in the trilogy by jared diamond with his (more) case study and anthropological analyses of the environmental implications of global geography. There are also parallels with issues addressed by. Edwin wilson from his (more) biological and genetic conceptions. The first aspect the publisher emphasized was an assertion: Western civilization"s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries.