Civilization: Is the West History?(2011)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2011-03-06
Average Runtime: 45m
Rating: 8.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
Niall Ferguson investigates how western civilization came to dominate the world.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 6E01
Competition
Air Date: 2011-03-06
The first episode begins in 1420 when Ming China had a credible claim to be the most advanced civilization in the wor...
E02
Science
Air Date: 2011-03-13
In 1683 the Ottoman army laid siege to Vienna, the capital of Europe's most powerful empire. Domination of West by Ea...
E03
Property
Air Date: 2011-03-20
Ferguson asks why North America succeeded while Latin America for so many centuries lagged behind. The two had much i...
E04
Medicine
Air Date: 2011-03-27
The French Empire consciously set out to civilize Africa by improving public health as well as building a modern infr...
E05
Consumerism
Air Date: 2011-04-03
Today the world is becoming more homogenous and, with increasingly few exceptions, big-name brands dominate main stre...
E06
Work
Air Date: 2011-04-10
The sixth element that enabled the West to dominate the rest was the work ethic. Max Weber famously linked it to Prot...
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