{"id":2122,"date":"2010-10-15T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2024-02-24T10:58:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T09:58:56","slug":"why-the-west-rules-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/icci-blog\/why-the-west-rules-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the West Rules&#8211;For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Morris, a Stanford historian, has just published a new sweeping history of humanity. In <em>Why the West Rules&#8211;For Now<\/em>, he builds a theory of the evolution of human societies and tries to explain why the East and the West have been swapping seats for millennia in world domination. The beginning is very promising, and fans of <em>Diamond&#8217;s Guns, Germs and Steel <\/em>and Landes&#8217; <em>The Wealth and Poverty of Nations <\/em>are likely to appreciate Morris&#8217; verve and breadth of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/westbook.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18504\" src=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/westbook-300x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/westbook-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/westbook-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/westbook-400x400.webp 400w, https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/westbook.webp 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Morris, a Stanford historian, has just published a new sweeping history of humanity. In Why the West Rules&#8211;For Now, he builds a theory of the evolution of human societies and tries to explain why the East and the West have been swapping seats for millennia in world domination. The beginning is very promising, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why the West Rules-For Now - International Cognition and Culture Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scary-committee.localsite.io\/blogs\/icci-blog\/why-the-west-rules-for-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why the West Rules-For Now - International Cognition and Culture Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ian Morris, a Stanford historian, has just published a new sweeping history of humanity. 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