Why the West Rules - for Now pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2025
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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- 曆史
- 世界曆史
- 英文原版
- 文化
- 比較曆史
- 最好的一本比較分析東西方文明的專著
- 東西方文明對比
- 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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春节期间看完了这本书的中文版，译者钱峰，书名为《西方将主宰多久——从历史的发展模式看世界的未来》。说实话，译笔真的很一般，仅从书名的翻译就可以看出一二。 WHY THE WEST RULES FOR NOW，直接译过来就是“为什么现在统治世界的是西方”，副标题The Patterns of History ...
評分考虑了一下，觉得还是要吐个槽 书本身挺有趣，但中信组织的翻译未免太随意。译者缺乏常识，也不肯花费必要的心力，能力和态度都有问题 有些错误可以忽略，自动脑补一下也就过去了；有些则叫人迷惑，影响阅读 把红山文化女神像眼里的Jade译成翡翠（还是淡蓝色的，黑人问号脸...
評分世界中心一直在转移。“历史发端于苏美尔”，当生活在两河流域的苏美尔人开始创造文字，缔造城市时，最初的世界中心便在两河流域。这一块土地上诞生了不少伟大文明，苏美尔、巴比伦、亚述、赫梯…… 下一个世界中心转移到了非洲，是埃及。美尼斯统一上下埃及，他的后人们营建金...
用戶評價
打過膨大劑，七百多頁，其實篇幅縮減到一半就好。
评分A very good history book that put East on par with West
评分地緣政治學。對中國期望很高，很好。
评分很難在一本書上能夠同時看到對東西方曆史如此詳盡的分析，這本書在一定程度上做到瞭，可能觀點並不算很新穎，在我看來好像是雜陳瞭各傢的觀點一樣，不過分析和史實的介紹還是很有獨到之處
评分太長瞭，得有上百萬字吧。隻看瞭前五章
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