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Ian Morris teaches classics, history, and archaeology at Stanford University. Born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1960, he now lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California. He has directed excavations in Greece and Italy, and has published 11 books and more than 80 articles. His most recent book, "Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future" (Profile Books, 2010), tells the stories of East and West across 15,000 years, from the final days of the Ice Age into the 22nd century, explaining why the West came to dominate the rest--and what will happen next. His next book, called "War! What is It Good For?" will look at war from prehuman times to our own, making two controversial claims--first, that war has helped humanity as well as harming it; and second, that war is now changing out of all recognition.
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- 历史
- 世界历史
- 英文原版
- 文化
- 比较历史
- 最好的一本比较分析东西方文明的专著
- 东西方文明对比
- English
Like most of us living in the West I have have pondered this question from time to time. Why did the west come out in front, and will it last? Should we all start learning Chinese? And was it inevitable - were Westerners more open-minded, or harder working, or were we just super-lucky to have had the industrial revolution? Or was it simply the work of exceptional people such as Julius Caesar, James Watt or Columbus?
Morris looks at this from a different angle. He uses an index of social development to analyse how societies have risen and fallen (including energy capture, organisation/urbanisation, war-making and information technology). But most importantly he tells a brilliant story of global history. It's a big book, but it has to be, to cover its full scope.
Part history, part archaeology, part geography, part biology and part sociology it is the work of a real polymath. It's incredibly readable too, beginning with a terrific fantasy of how things might have been. I didn't agree with all of it but it's still the best history book I've read this year. You may guess that I felt stongly about this book.
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1.假装公正客观，自编了一套毫无科学性的所谓评分体系。 2.偷换概念。好家伙，从埃及、巴比伦到波斯，他把地球上几乎所有的辉煌文明都纳入西方范畴，只为在与东方中国的评分中获得几乎全胜的战绩。又是一个中国pk全世界的故事。 3.掩耳盗铃。可惜与中华文明比拼强大的生命力，...
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评分文/严杰夫 “为何中国在科技发展上长期领先西方，而现代科学竟出现于西方而不是中国？在最近的数百年里，中国的科技会停滞不前，以至于成了一个备受欺辱的衰老帝国的？”大约半个世纪之前，英国科学家李约瑟在对中国进行了11次考察后，提出了这几个问题。此后李约瑟的这几个提...
评分解码东西文明的前世今生 文/王传言 【《西方将主宰多久》，伊恩·莫里斯著，钱峰译，中信出版社，2014年5月】 对于人类历史的发展，无数历史学家都进行自身解读。有的从编年体的角度，将人类历史的每个过程都涉及其中，比如斯塔夫里阿诺斯的《全球通史》；有的从世界各个民...
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人在生物学、社会学意义上并无区别，只是地理上的差异决定了东西方文明出现的早晚、发展的快慢和成长路径的不同。 然而，文明的演进存在相同的模式，其中最重要的是中心——边缘的互动关系，正是它推动社会发展的螺旋式上升。 似乎涵盖了The Prisoners of Geography和Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow两本书所探讨的领域，而且对未来的预见同后者一样灰暗。
评分科学！但是现在才看到考古而已
评分是一本非常客观的历史书，从外国人眼里看整个中国的衰落。其实一切不是偶然，必然发生的，总在等待一个契机然后推波助澜酿成如此的局面。喜欢看故事的，那此书并不适合你。但如果你想看一个多角度历史的，请来看看此书。
评分打过膨大剂，七百多页，其实篇幅缩减到一半就好。
评分是一本非常客观的历史书，从外国人眼里看整个中国的衰落。其实一切不是偶然，必然发生的，总在等待一个契机然后推波助澜酿成如此的局面。喜欢看故事的，那此书并不适合你。但如果你想看一个多角度历史的，请来看看此书。
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