Why the West Rules - for Now

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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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出版者:Profile Press
作者:Ian Morris
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页数:750
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出版时间:2011-1-30
价格:GBP 12.99
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781846682087
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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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东西方文明的大分流,是学界至今争论不休的话题。概括起来,分“长期决定派”和“短期决定派”。 在长期决定派看来,西方超越东方是历史的必然,这是西方文化的根性所决定的,伟大的马克斯•韦伯和汤因比都倾向于这个观点,按这个理路,除彻底放弃东方文明,或仅仅把它变成...  

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书名真的是一个很大的噱头,几十页就可以说完的话愣是整了四百多页的废话。即使从史前几万年开始诉说那又怎样,从头到位影响人类社会进程的是:国家更迭、移民、疾病、饥荒和气候变化。这些因素让东西方核心文明从一个地方迁移至另一个地方,大致方向是从内陆到海洋。 ...  

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地理,社会,和生物学法则的相互作用: 生物学告诉我们,人类为什么要推动社会发展;社会学告诉我们,人类是如何做到(或者做不到)推动社会发展的(莫里斯定理:导致变化的原因是懒惰,贪婪,恐惧的人们寻求更为简便易行,获利丰厚,安全可靠的做事方法。他们对自己正在做的事...  

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A very good history book that put East on par with West

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A very good history book that put East on par with West

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打过膨大剂,七百多页,其实篇幅缩减到一半就好。

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地缘政治学。对中国期望很高,很好。

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A very good history book that put East on par with West

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