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.
作者弗格森,凭一本《货币崛起》出名。预测中国经济发展将领先于世界。近年的欧债危机,美国财政赤字等等全球性经济衰退,以及中国经济仍然保持强劲内需与高速发展,使弗格森的观点越来越被世人所看重,并引发一个问题:西方长达数百年的领先地位,将会被替代吗? 要回答这个...
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...
评分因为是土摩托推荐的,才去找来看看 当时吸引我的是杀手级应用, 看了书以后,真的是这样吗? 6个都是杀手级应用就让东西方文明主导位置发生了质变? 以500年时间为轴,您总可以找出3个5个10个的? 人的基因演变这么复杂,人类社会。文明就用这么6个关键词说清楚? 就算找出关键...
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Austria 和 Australia 看错了我也忍了;译者一点对历史的敏感度都没有,实在是基础教育打得太差。 上下文已经提示了,把A国和普鲁士和俄国并列提出来。稍有感觉的人也能知道这是奥地利吧??!!
企鹅平装版。基本上是把先贤们已有的结论炒个冷饭,里边绕过了Democracy而直接以Property代之还是蛮有意思的。
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评分5星给作者的博学与文笔,3星给作者的潜意识里的英美中心论与西方文化至上论。整体阅读体验还是很好的,打算按亚马逊的推荐继续阅读作者的另外两本
评分西方征服世界的六个杀手级应用:竞争,科学,产权法,医学,消费主义和职业伦理。
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