The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ. (Niall Ferguson)

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

Niall Ferguson

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