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最适合早餐桌上,马桶坐上阅读。奇闻异事很多,真知灼见就马马虎虎了。
评分Christianity那段还挺神奇的。。。
评分历史分析方法值得借鉴,但是对于中国的分析和西方文明的崛起总结过于程式化。
评分书中总结的六点还是很到位的:竞争、科学、法制(产权)、现代医药、消费主义(以消费为中心的商品社会)、敬业和专业(新教伦理)。每一点的论证都具象化为与另一个非西欧国家的对比,同时将这六点穿插在整个近现代史的叙述中。每次看历史都能感受到自己的渺小,对人世间的苦难更加感同身受。不足在于有偏向性的表述方式,大概社会科学的分析都很难完全摆脱主观的意识形态吧。
评分书中总结的六点还是很到位的:竞争、科学、法制(产权)、现代医药、消费主义(以消费为中心的商品社会)、敬业和专业(新教伦理)。每一点的论证都具象化为与另一个非西欧国家的对比,同时将这六点穿插在整个近现代史的叙述中。每次看历史都能感受到自己的渺小,对人世间的苦难更加感同身受。不足在于有偏向性的表述方式,大概社会科学的分析都很难完全摆脱主观的意识形态吧。
Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World and The Ascent of Money. He writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. He has written and presented five highly successful television document series for Channel Four: Empire, American Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money and, most recently, Civilization.
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.
【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...
评分五味杂陈读《文明》 ——我读《文明》 文蠹鱼 这是读尼尔•弗格森的第二本书。先前的是开创性自传体,写顶级金融家西格蒙德。《文明》,又是大部头作品。说心里话,此本对于我来说,有分析上的难度。因近日曾读过袁剑的《大拐点》,不同程度上有相悖的地方。这个时候,我就...
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...
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