{"id":5450,"date":"2014-07-18T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T22:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=5450"},"modified":"2014-07-18T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T22:54:07","slug":"how-the-west-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/how-the-west-won\/","title":{"rendered":"How The West Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subtitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-West-Won-Neglected-Modernity\/dp\/1610170857\/ref=sr_1_1\" target=\"_blank\">How the West Won &#8211; The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"subtitle\">by Rodney Stark<\/div>\n<div class=\"publisher\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"publisher\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Americans are in danger of being badly misled by a flood of absurd, politically correct fabrications, all of them popular on college campuses: That the Greeks copied their whole culture from black Egyptians. That European science originated in Islam. That Western affluence was stolen from non-Western societies. That Western modernity was really produced in China, and not so very long ago. The truth is that, although the West wisely adopted bits and pieces of technology from Asia, modernity is entirely the product of Western civilization.<\/div>\n<div class=\"publisher\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"publisher\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I use the term modernity to identify that fundamental store of scientific knowledge and procedures, powerful technologies, artistic achievements, political freedoms, economic arrangements, moral sensibilities, and improved standards of living that characterize Western nations and are now revolutionizing life in the rest of the world. For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain backward and impoverished.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"publisher\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodneystark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Stark_HowTheWestWon_FrontCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41 aligncenter\" title=\"Stark_HowTheWestWon_FrontCover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rodneystark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Stark_HowTheWestWon_FrontCover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td align=\"left\" width=\"250\">Introduction<br \/>\n<strong>I. Classical Beginnings (500 BCE-500)<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Stagnant Empires and the Greek \u2018Miracle\u2019<br \/>\n2.\u00a0 Jerusalem\u2019s Rational God<br \/>\n3.\u00a0 The Roman Interlude<strong><br \/>\nII. Early Medieval Progress (500-1200)<\/strong><br \/>\n4. Blessings of\u00a0 \u2018European\u2019\u00a0 Disunity<br \/>\n5. Northern Lights Over Christendom<br \/>\n6. Freedom and Capitalism<br \/>\n<strong>III. Medieval\u00a0 Transformations\u00a0 (1200-1500) <\/strong><br \/>\n7.\u00a0 Climate, Plague and Social Change<br \/>\n8.\u00a0 Universities and Natural Philosophy<br \/>\n9.\u00a0 Industry, Trade,\u00a0 and Technology<br \/>\n10.\u00a0 Discovering the World<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" width=\"250\"><strong>IV. The Dawn of Modernity (1500-1750)<\/strong><br \/>\n11.\u00a0 New World Conquests and Colonies<br \/>\n12. The Rise and Fall of the Golden Empire<br \/>\n13. Luther\u2019s Reformation: Myths and Realities<br \/>\n14. Exposing Muslim Illusions<br \/>\n15.\u00a0 Science Comes of\u00a0 Age<strong><br \/>\nV. Modernity (1750- )<\/strong><br \/>\n16.\u00a0 The Industrial \u2018Revolution\u2019<br \/>\n17.\u00a0 Why Britain? Liberty, Merit and the \u2018Bourgeois\u2019<br \/>\n18.\u00a0 Globalization and Colonialism<br \/>\nBibliography<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the West Won &#8211; The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity by Rodney Stark &#8220;Americans are in danger of being badly misled by a flood of absurd, politically correct fabrications, all of them popular on college campuses: That the Greeks copied their whole culture from black Egyptians. That European science originated in Islam. 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