尼尔·弗格森,英国最著名的历史学家之一。哈佛大学历史系教授、牛津大学高级研究员,同时也是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的高级研究员。他是极少数能横跨学术界、金融界和媒体的专家之一。著有《货币崛起》等多部畅销书,同时还为多家报纸和杂志撰稿。此外,他还制作了四部非常成功的电视纪录片:《帝国》、《美国巨人》、《世界战争》,以及最近的《货币崛起》。2004年被《时代》周刊评为“影响世界的100人”之一。
If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe – Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland – would have seemed little better. As for fifteenth-century North America, it was an anarchic wilderness compared with the realms of the Aztecs and Incas. The idea that the West would come to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would have struck you as wildly fanciful. And yet it happened. What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six “killer applications” that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy. Civilization takes readers on their own extraordinary journey around the world – from the Grand Canal at Nanjing to the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul; from Machu Picchu in the Andes to Shark Island, Namibia; from the proud towers of Prague to the secret churches of Wenzhou. It is the story of sailboats, missiles, land deeds, vaccines, blue jeans and Chinese Bibles. It is the defining narrative of modern world history.
陈丹青口中美国人长着张“不被欺负的脸”,跟涵怡伉俪聊天时我亦做过类似表述。不过我说的是这的孩子眼神透亮坚定,带着一股“我肯定能行”,“谁也别想欺负我”的劲头。能不能行未必只取决于劲头。谦卑隐忍未必一定不行。我们的文化往往体现出的是反证。十年前在东亚四方课堂...
评分尼尔•弗格森对中国人民很有感情,有事没事就写文章表扬咱们两句,算是一滴不折不扣的中国蜜。早在2010年11月,这哥们就在《华尔街日报》写了一篇文章,标题叫In China's Orbit,霸气得很,可译成“世界围绕中国旋转”或者“世界沿着中国轨道前行”,如果直逼一点就是——咱...
评分六个杀手锏,六个主题,呈现出文明的决定因素,决定着未来文明所属。 1:竞争:集权的中国与竞争的欧洲 2:科学:欧洲科学如何超越阿拉伯世界 3:财产权:新世界与自由 4:医学:医学如何保障欧洲崛起与扩张 5:消费:消费社会的诞生 6:新教伦理:享受时光与中国的耶路撒冷 ...
评分关于西方社会的崛起,有3本书值得一看 第一本是《钢铁、细菌和枪炮》,必读的一本。 第二本《国富国穷》台湾译本,原名叫做the wealth of nations 第三本是本书。 Niall Ferguson认为当下全球2大问题是西方大国主宰世界和亚洲的崛起。 作者认为西方国家的崛起其原因有6点:Scie...
评分2011年很显然是Niall Ferguson的一年,抛下英国去了米国并且娶了索马里小三的历史学哥们,终于在力挺中国经济的7,8年后成为了最主流的经济史学家。Civilization是一本Ferguson回归西方的书,主要的观点在于六大杀手软件:医学,私有制,竞争,科学,消费力,以及道德水平。这...
尼尔弗格森不愧是西方的余秋雨易中天,书写的水银泻地旁证博弈,提纲掣领又大气辉煌。只是读完之后又有点找不到重点,很多分析稍显牵强粗浅。值得一读,但是似乎并不配得上多少学术价值。
评分如此浅薄之人,如此浅薄之书。基本上可以直接交给废纸回收站。可惜木材和纸张了。
评分如此浅薄之人,如此浅薄之书。基本上可以直接交给废纸回收站。可惜木材和纸张了。
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评分终于看完了,西方国家和世界上其他国家的文明的各种对比贯穿全书。假如西方文明崩塌了,世界会不会如同当年罗马帝国衰亡之时一般进入黑暗?有可能。
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