Why the West Rules - for Now 在线电子书 图书标签: 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
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很难在一本书上能够同时看到对东西方历史如此详尽的分析,这本书在一定程度上做到了,可能观点并不算很新颖,在我看来好像是杂陈了各家的观点一样,不过分析和史实的介绍还是很有独到之处
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。
评分太长了,得有上百万字吧。只看了前五章
评分太长了,得有上百万字吧。只看了前五章
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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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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