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A very good history book that put East on par with West
評分打過膨大劑,七百多頁,其實篇幅縮減到一半就好。
評分地理論
評分打過膨大劑,七百多頁,其實篇幅縮減到一半就好。
評分太長瞭,得有上百萬字吧。隻看瞭前五章
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.
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...
評分在《西方将主宰多久》一书中,斯坦福大学教授伊恩•莫里斯运用贾雷德•戴蒙德在《枪炮,病菌与钢铁》用的类似的生物学和社会学方法来解答斯宾格勒提出的问题,西方为什么会没落,东方为什么开始超越西方。他得出的结论和戴蒙德的结论类似,都是地理因素最重要。 伊恩•莫...
評分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。 ...
評分—— 读《西方将主宰多久》和《丝绸之路》引起的思考 Part I. 谁是东方,谁是西方? 今年早些时候第一次读斯坦福大学历史学家伊恩-莫里斯的《西方将主宰多久》,当即拜倒。莫里斯的厉害之处是身为历史学家的他提取了大量来自史料和考古学的数据,创造性地使用了量化的指标来...
評分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 ...
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