Books by Ian Morris and Complete Book Reviews
Ian Morris. Princeton Univ., $29.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-691-15568-5
Stanford University classicist and historian Morris follows up Why the West Rules—for Now with a sophisticated volume designed to add quantitative muscle to his earlier arguments. A big-history theorist working in a vein similar to Niall Ferguson or
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Ian Morris. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (512p) ISBN 978-0-374-28600-2
Big thinker Morris (Why the West Rules—for Now) returns with an ambitious, epoch-spanning study of violence writ large across time and place. The author posits the counterintuitive and controversial view that war has made the world safer and richer...
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Ian Morris. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (544) ISBN 978-0-374-15727-2
England’s fateful geographical adjacency to Europe drives a millennia-long love-hate relationship in this sparkling history. Stanford historian Morris (Why the West Rules—For Now) surveys the many migrations of people across the Channel and into...
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