Civilizaciya. CHem Zapad otlichaetsya ot ostal'nogo mira

V nachale xv veka mir zametno otlichalsya ot nyneshnego. Nas porazil by kontrast mezhdu mogushchestvennoy Aziey i stradayushchey ot goloda, usobic i epidemiy Evropoy, mezhdu anarhicheskoy Severnoy Amerikoy i imperiyami Central'noy i YUzhnoy Ameriki. Mysl' o tom, budto Zapad sposoben dominirovat' v mire —v voennom, ekonomicheskom ili v kul'turnom otnoshenii, — togda pokazalas' by strannoy. Tem ne m...