No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn AUTH-3425370 Emerging along the margins of

Emerging along the margins of a scholarly establishment that initially dismissed anything popular as unworthy of serious study-trivial

A charming tale of youth reminiscent of Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" that will not disappoint fans of Tarkington's wonderful work

who has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another

ISBN10: 0836136977

No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn AUTH-3425370 Emerging along the margins ofThe world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle East. Europe and the United States have dominated the world since. But today the West's preeminence is slipping away as China, India, Brazil and other emerging powers rise. Although most strategists recognize that the dominance of the West is on the wane, they are confident that its founding ideas democracy,