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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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- Civilization
- 西方
- 社会学
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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。...
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 评分作者弗格森，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...
评分西方文明如此普遍，以至于我们忘记了他们是“西方”文明，例如全球大学机制都向西方靠拢，医疗科学组织也如此，如今世上大部分人接受了自牛顿、达尔文到爱因斯坦的西方科学， 生病时也主要寻求西医的帮助，很少社会抵御西方营销和消费模式的侵入以及西方生活方式。越来越多...
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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。
评分历史学的太好容易学成大仙或者中国人民的老朋友...不过叔文笔是真好
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Blikist扫过。不算新鲜的六大元素主导了西方这几个世纪来的主导地位：竞争精神（地缘政治导致的日常战火催生装备升级&资本主义）、科学实证原则（read bible on your own led a rise in literacy&printing)、representative gov based on property rights&rule of law,当代医学、消费主义、清教徒思想:work hard&save money. 没有特别新鲜的概念，有几条感觉是为了凑字数，比如当代医学完全可以归入科学中去。其实核心就是地缘政治和第三条，然而这恰恰是华人文化无法照搬的。
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