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Modernity developed only in the West - in Europe and THE UNITED STATES. Nowhere else did knowledge and democracy occur; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners created chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric equipment and lighting, aspirin, and soap. The question is, why? Unfortunately, that question has become so politically wrong that a lot of scholars avoid it. But acclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping new look at Western civilization. How the West Won demonstrates the primacy of uniquely European ideas - among them the perception in free will, the commitment to the quest for knowledge, the idea that the world functions regarding to rational guidelines that can be discovered, and the focus on human liberty and secure property rights. How the West Won displays Stark's items for exciting narrative history and making the latest scholarship accessible to all. This striking, insightful book will force someone to rethink your knowledge of the West and the birth of modernity - and also to recognize that Western civilization really has place itself apart from other cultures.
