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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作者的写作风格真是风趣幽默,即使是这样比较严肃的话题也能聊的妙趣横生。
评分宏大视野,从人类的角度思考问题。
评分历史学家想用数据说话,他自己的指数(energy, organization, information, war)的heuristic 本身就有问题,而且测量标准不一,也都瞎估计,自己还承认有10%不超过20%的误差。唯一赞同的一句话是"..societies' abilities to get things done.. is the point of life"
评分其实你的思考早已被人汇编成书/ 听西方人讲中国历史总是有趣
评分没中文版,想看看,现在还有人送书当礼物么
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.
《西方将主宰多久(Why the West rule-for now)》读后感 这是本很有趣的书,尽管其学术思想并不怎么专业,但在历史比较领域,也算是一枝奇葩。我从3月25日开始读这本书,到3月30日完成全书的3/4,中间因为陪大哥游玩及随之而来的清明假期而基本没有看,到今天一口气看完了,也...
评分书名真的是一个很大的噱头,几十页就可以说完的话愣是整了四百多页的废话。即使从史前几万年开始诉说那又怎样,从头到位影响人类社会进程的是:国家更迭、移民、疾病、饥荒和气候变化。这些因素让东西方核心文明从一个地方迁移至另一个地方,大致方向是从内陆到海洋。 ...
评分此文已刊于2011年9月19日《南方都市报》,有删节。 尽管美国的霸主地位日渐衰落,中印等东方古国重新崛起,西方依旧统治着这个世界。经济生产能力直接体现了西方在全球的统治优势。上世纪五十年代,鸟类学家戴蒙德(Jared Diamond)在巴布几内亚的丛林观察动物行为,与...
评分文/严杰夫 “为何中国在科技发展上长期领先西方,而现代科学竟出现于西方而不是中国?在最近的数百年里,中国的科技会停滞不前,以至于成了一个备受欺辱的衰老帝国的?”大约半个世纪之前,英国科学家李约瑟在对中国进行了11次考察后,提出了这几个问题。此后李约瑟的这几个提...
评分书名真的是一个很大的噱头,几十页就可以说完的话愣是整了四百多页的废话。即使从史前几万年开始诉说那又怎样,从头到位影响人类社会进程的是:国家更迭、移民、疾病、饥荒和气候变化。这些因素让东西方核心文明从一个地方迁移至另一个地方,大致方向是从内陆到海洋。 ...
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