Why the West Rules--For Now 在线电子书 图书标签: 历史 中西文化 社会学 政治 英文原版 文化 比较政治 history
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穿越上万年的历史来总结人类的发展规律
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评分没中文版,想看看,现在还有人送书当礼物么
评分Morris基本上是将地理决定论和生物学/社会学串在一起,提供了Needham问题一个大历史跨度的解释。很难说有太大振聋发聩的新思路,但数据和史料运用扎实、行文流畅优雅,确实是学界backbone类型的中坚力量。
评分正文结束,附注稍微瞄了一下。
The Economists 2010年度推荐,FT中文网年度荐书,2011年奥威尔写作奖提名
伊恩·莫里斯是斯坦福大学的历史学和古典文学教授。目前,他已出版十部学术性著作,包括最近的《远古帝国的兴衰》。同时,他还指导了希腊和意大利的考古挖掘。他现在居住在加利福尼亚州的圣克鲁斯山。
Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West — and what this portends for the 21st century.
There are two broad schools of thought on why the West rules. Proponents of "Long-Term Lock-In" theories such as Jared Diamond suggest that from time immemorial, some critical factor— geography, climate, or culture perhaps — made East and West unalterably different, and determined that the industrial revolution would happen in the West and push it further ahead of the East. But the East led the West between 500 and 1600, so this development can't have been inevitable; and so proponents of "Short-Term Accident" theories argue that Western rule was a temporary aberration that is now coming to an end, with Japan, China, and India resuming their rightful places on the world stage. However, as the West led for 9,000 of the previous 10,000 years, it wasn't just a temporary aberration. So, if we want to know why the West rules, we need a whole new theory. Ian Morris, boldly entering the turf of Jared Diamond and Niall Ferguson, provides the broader approach that is necessary, combining the textual historian's focus on context, the anthropological archaeologist's awareness of the deep past, and the social scientist's comparative methods to make sense of the past, present, and future— in a way no one has ever done before.
解码东西文明的前世今生 文/王传言 【《西方将主宰多久》,伊恩·莫里斯著,钱峰译,中信出版社,2014年5月】 对于人类历史的发展,无数历史学家都进行自身解读。有的从编年体的角度,将人类历史的每个过程都涉及其中,比如斯塔夫里阿诺斯的《全球通史》;有的从世界各个民...
评分 评分地理,社会,和生物学法则的相互作用: 生物学告诉我们,人类为什么要推动社会发展;社会学告诉我们,人类是如何做到(或者做不到)推动社会发展的(莫里斯定理:导致变化的原因是懒惰,贪婪,恐惧的人们寻求更为简便易行,获利丰厚,安全可靠的做事方法。他们对自己正在做的事...
评分世界中心一直在转移。“历史发端于苏美尔”,当生活在两河流域的苏美尔人开始创造文字,缔造城市时,最初的世界中心便在两河流域。这一块土地上诞生了不少伟大文明,苏美尔、巴比伦、亚述、赫梯…… 下一个世界中心转移到了非洲,是埃及。美尼斯统一上下埃及,他的后人们营建金...
评分在《西方将主宰多久》一书中,斯坦福大学教授伊恩•莫里斯运用贾雷德•戴蒙德在《枪炮,病菌与钢铁》用的类似的生物学和社会学方法来解答斯宾格勒提出的问题,西方为什么会没落,东方为什么开始超越西方。他得出的结论和戴蒙德的结论类似,都是地理因素最重要。 伊恩•莫...
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