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A comparable civilization reaching aforementioned technological status will likely not produce a significant number of simulated realities (one that might push the probable existence of digital entities beyond the probable number of "real" entities in a Universe) for any of a number of reasons, such as diversion of computational processing ...
Civilization shows exactly how a dozen Western empires came to control three-fifths of mankind and four-fifths of the world economy. However, Ferguson argues that the days of Western predominance are numbered because the Rest have finally downloaded the six killer apps the West once monopolised – while the West has literally lost faith in ...
The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must be relevant to contemporary matters, and not only important in its historical context; it must be rewarding to re-read repeatedly with respect to liberal education; and it must be a part of "the great conversation about the ...
History of Western civilization – record of the development of human civilization beginning in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, and generally spreading westwards. Ancient Greek science, philosophy, democracy, architecture, literature, and art provided a foundation embraced and built upon by the Roman Empire as it swept up Europe, including ...
The Measure of Reality was praised, in the journal Historia Mathematica by mathematician Frank Swetz, as "a pleasant and informative book" surveying some of the trends of quantification in European society during the period; [2] and, by both Swetz and (in Magill's Book Reviews) by Barbara Hauser, for the breadth of the author's scholarship.' [2] [6] Swetz was in some measure critical ...
Hugh Trevor-Roper wrote a glowing review in The New York Times Book Review. [5] McNeill's Rise of the West won the U.S. National Book Award in History and Biography in 1964. [2] and was named one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th century by the Modern Library. [6] One critical response has been that the West did not rise, the East ...
Roots of the Western Tradition: A Short History of the Ancient World, 1966 (With John L. Stipp and Alan Dirrum) The Rise and Development of Western Civilization, 1967 (Editor) The Impact of the Norman Conquest, 1969 (With Judith Pike) The Moons of Meer (juvenile fantasy), 1969; Odysseus to Columbus: A Synopsis of Classical and Medieval History ...
Later critics observed that the assumption of firmly bounded societies was proposed precisely at the time when European powers were colonising non-Western societies, and was thus self-serving. Many anthropologists and social theorists now consider unilineal cultural and social evolution a Western myth seldom based on solid empirical grounds.