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.
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...
評分 評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...
評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...
評分開始的遠古時代差點看不下去,後來跳過終於看進去瞭。印象最深的是關於必然與偶然的部分,細想好像真是long term probability這麼迴事。最後說到造成分化的地理又會在不久後失去意義,真的挺有格局跟曆史感的。
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评分人在生物學、社會學意義上並無區彆,隻是地理上的差異決定瞭東西方文明齣現的早晚、發展的快慢和成長路徑的不同。 然而,文明的演進存在相同的模式,其中最重要的是中心——邊緣的互動關係,正是它推動社會發展的螺鏇式上升。 似乎涵蓋瞭The Prisoners of Geography和Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow兩本書所探討的領域,而且對未來的預見同後者一樣灰暗。
评分A very good history book that put East on par with West
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