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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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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 评分 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？？！！
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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结构独特，史实详尽，读了人会变聪明。
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Christianity那段还挺神奇的。。。
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