Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Tantor Media, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2014
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 25 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781494522490 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11116093, 1494522497 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11116093
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Kevin Foley
Modernity developed only in the West-in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and soap. The question is, why? Unfortunately, that question has become so politically incorrect that most scholars avoid it. Butacclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping new look at Western civilization
Mode of access: World Wide Web