Click here to order your copy of Civilization: Is the West History? on DVD.
The West once ruled more than half the world. The religion it exported is still followed by a third of mankind. Above all, the way people live - or aspire to live - is unmistakably an invention of the West.
All over the world, more and more human beings eat a Western diet, wear Western clothes and live in Western housing... But are we living through the beginning of the end of the West's ascendancy?
The DVD contains all six episodes of the series:
1. A Tale Of Two Rivers: Why Western Europe's economy outstripped Eastern China's.
2. The Siege: Why Central Europe turned the tide against the Ottoman Empire.
3. New Worlds: Why North America succeeded where South America failed.
4. Hearts Of Darkness: Why Europe's empires failed in their mission to 'civilise' Africa.
5. Cross-Dressing Civilisations: The resurrection of the West as the 'consumer society'.
6. Lost Faiths: The decline of Western beliefs: not only Christianity but also nationalism and even Communism.
