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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。
- 历史
- 世界历史
- 文明史
- 尼尔·弗格森
- History
- 原文
- Niall
- Ferguson
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.
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1500年之后，基督教文明开始走向兴盛，印度的莫卧儿帝国，中华帝国，奥斯曼帝国开始衰落。最终基督教文明战胜地球上所有的文明，正如马云在一次演讲中说，美国的强大是基于基督教文明下的法律体系。近一百多年，所有的文明都在向基督教文明学习。 中华帝国为什么在明代迅速衰弱...
评分【http://blog.sina.com.cn/leiwon】面对拉塞勒斯之问——“欧洲人为何能如此强大？他们为什么能如此轻易地踏足于非洲和亚洲，进行贸易或征服？亚洲人和非洲人为什么不能入侵他们的海岸线，在他们的港口设立殖民地，将法令加诸他们的王室？”——作者提出了六个因素，并认为这...
评分 评分英国著名哲学家罗素曾通过其名著《西方的智慧》向世人展示了一幅哲学思想层面的西方史全景图，可是却遭人质疑：全书没有给东方的智慧留一席之地，意即该书无处不在充斥着对西方文化的夸耀和赞叹。在罗素看来，东西方两个世界是在互相隔绝的情况下各自发展的，因此，就西方思想...
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competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic.只想看看protestant work ethic.
评分competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic.只想看看protestant work ethic.
评分前面读着挺好，感觉作者思路有点跳但毕竟是我喜欢的比较witty的风格所以可以忍，直到倒数第二章关于宗教人设狂崩，把西方的衰落归结为基督教的式微简直就是知识分子之耻，边读边喊WTF，最后是把温州的经济腾飞归结为当地华人基督教的兴起将本书的荒诞推向了高潮。珍爱生命，远离神棍。
评分拿什么拯救你，我的文明。
评分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。
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