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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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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？？！！
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評分五味杂陈读《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...
評分文明的6大杀手锏 《文明》书中列举了西方文明为何能在近五百年超越东方的六个关键词：竞争、科学、财产权、医学、消费社会、工作伦理等。 用我们熟悉的马克思主义，概括为两个优势：生产力优势，生产关系优势。 生产力优势包括；竞争、科学、医学。 生产关系优势包括：财产权、...
評分西方陷入了焦虑。这种焦虑既来自对反恐战争漫无尽头的不满，也来自对非西方国家迅速崛起的担忧。去年美国信用评级下调，欧洲债务危机加剧，而中国和其他“金砖”国家持续推动着全球增长。据高盛公司预测，2027年中国的经济规模将超过美国，尽管前者的人均收入仍低于后者。与美...
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尼爾·弗格森老師牛逼。但是副標題還是泛瞭，不是"The West and the Rest"，而應該是"The Anglo-Saxons and the Rest"。弗格森老師自己念自己的書，些微的蘇格蘭口音還是很萌的。
评分......
评分書中總結的六點還是很到位的：競爭、科學、法製（産權）、現代醫藥、消費主義（以消費為中心的商品社會）、敬業和專業（新教倫理）。每一點的論證都具象化為與另一個非西歐國傢的對比，同時將這六點穿插在整個近現代史的敘述中。每次看曆史都能感受到自己的渺小，對人世間的苦難更加感同身受。不足在於有偏嚮性的錶述方式，大概社會科學的分析都很難完全擺脫主觀的意識形態吧。
评分曆史分析方法值得藉鑒，但是對於中國的分析和西方文明的崛起總結過於程式化。
评分重點學習用英文講述中國曆史部分：）
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