The revised, re-edited version of Jack Goldstone's paper "The Rise of the West -- or Not? - A Revision to Socio-economic History" is posted with permission, at the CrashList as part of a celebration of the California School and a re-examination of the origins and destination of world capitalism. The paper is archived at: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base/ The CrashList site is at: http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList The message archives are open to non-Listers. Mark Jones