Civilization: The West and the Rest
NIALL FERGUSON
The West and the Rest
ALLEN LANE
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First published 2011
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ISBN: 978-1-84-614282-6
For Ayaan
List of Illustrations
1.
Scene from the Hundred Years’ War (
Corbis
)
2.
The Four Conditions of Society: Poverty
, Jean Bourdichon,
c.
1500 (
Bridgeman
)
3.
The Triumph of Death
, Peter Bruegel the Elder,
c.
1562 (
Getty
)
4.
The Yongle Emperor (
National Palace Museum, Taiwan
)
5.
Su Song’s water clock (
Adrian Pennink
)
6.
A game of Chinese golf (
Palace Museum, Forbidden City
)
7.
The
qilin
(
Jinghai Temple
)
8.
The Chinese civil service examination, from a 17th-century history of Chinese emperors (
Bridgeman
)
9.
Vasco da Gama’s tomb, monastery of St Jerome, Lisbon (
Dewald Aukema
)
10.
Earl Macartney’s embassy to the Xianlong Emperor, cartoon by James Gillray (
Getty
)
11.
Jan Sobieski’s men raise the siege of Vienna (
Vienna Museum
)
12.
Sultan Osman III (
Bridgeman
)
13.
Ahmed Resmî Effendi’s arrival in Berlin, 1763 (
Dewald Aukema
)
14.
Frederick the Great’s
Anti-Machiavel
, with annotations by Voltaire (
Dewald Aukema
)
15.
Pages from the German edition of Benjamin Robin’s
New Principles of Gunnery
(
Dewald Aukema
)
16.
Machu Picchu, Peru (
Dewald Aukema
)
17.
Boneyard Beach, South Carolina (
Dewald Aukema
)
18.
Millicent How’s indenture document (
National Archives at Kew
)
19.
Abraham Smith’s land grant (
National Archives at Kew
)
20.
Map of Charleston (
The South Carolina Historical Society
)
21.
Jerónimo de Aliaga (
Dewald Aukema
)
22.
Simón Bolívar mural in present-day Caracas (
Dewald Aukema
)
23.
Scarred slave (
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; copyright © Photo SCALA, Florence
)
24.
Saint-Louis, Senegal (
Dewald Aukema
)
25.
Blaise Diagne (
Getty
)
26.
Louis Faidherbe (
Corbis
)
27.
Senegalese tirailleurs (
Institut Pasteur
)
28.
French doctors in the tropics (
Institut Pasteur
)
29.
Three photographs of ‘Bastard’ women (
Adrian Pennink
)
30.
A Senegalese tirailleur on the Western Front (
French MoD; copyright © ECPAD
)
31.
Lüderitz, Namibia (
Magic Touch Films; © Manfred Anderson
)
32.
Young woman on horseback, Urga [Ulan Bator], Mongolia, 1913 (
Musée Kahn
)
33.
Hirohito and Edward (
Getty
)
34.
Observance of His Imperial Majesty of the Military Manoeuvres of Combined Army and Navy Forces
, Yōshū Chikanobu, 1890 (
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
)
35.
Ladies Sewing
, Adachi Ginkō, 1887 (
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
)
36.
Poster for
Giant
(
Alamy
)
37.
Levi’s
®
London flagship store, 174–176 Regent Street (
Levi Strauss & Co
)
38.
Egon Bondy’s Happy Hearts Club Banned
, The Plastic People of the Universe (
Jaroslav Riedel
)
39.
Headscarves on dummies in Istanbul (
Dewald Aukema
)
40.
Max Weber in America (
Getty
)
41.
The St Louis World’s Fair, 1904 (
Missouri History Museum, St Louis
)
42.
China Inland Mission Students,
c.
1900 (
Special Collections, Yale Divinity School Library
)