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发表于2024-11-21
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Hindsight's 20/20
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。
评分今年寒假虎平要是还给大家推荐书,这本书绝对是在书单上的了。第一章里说南京在1420年是全球最大的城市,人口在50万至100万之间。
评分Hindsight's 20/20
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。
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.
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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