Everything you need to understand or teach Civilization by Niall Ferguson.
In "Civilization: The West and the Rest", popular and controversial historian Niall Ferguson sets out to explain why Western civilization, roughly understood as the set of peoples and nations that live in the earth's northern hemisphere, reaching from the U.S. through Europe, has so far exceeded the accomplishments of other civilizations in world history and in the world at present. Ferguson's thesis is that the West's dominance is due to...