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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.
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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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尼尔·弗格森应该算得上近几年来比较出名历史学家了，我比较感兴趣的是他的其他学术背景，他主修的其实是金融学。在这本书的一开篇，他就提出了在现今的西方，学生们的历史学习都是很片段的，而且他也很忧患的提出，正是由于人们对历史的不重视，导致了对未来形势的看不清楚。...
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在Ferguson的言下之意里，中国已经具备了竞争、科技、现代医学、工作伦理、财产权、消费社会全部六个西方文明领先的特质，在工作伦理方面已然超过许多发达国家，唯一所见的对与当代中国的担忧在于政治上的非竞争性。看多中国并以此激励西方并批评奥巴马，实在与中国右派共知如出一辙
评分重点学习用英文讲述中国历史部分：）
评分Christianity那段还挺神奇的。。。
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