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伊恩·莫裏斯是斯坦福大學的曆史學和古典文學教授。目前,他已齣版十部學術性著作,包括最近的《遠古帝國的興衰》。同時,他還指導瞭希臘和意大利的考古挖掘。他現在居住在加利福尼亞州的聖剋魯斯山。
Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West — and what this portends for the 21st century.
There are two broad schools of thought on why the West rules. Proponents of "Long-Term Lock-In" theories such as Jared Diamond suggest that from time immemorial, some critical factor— geography, climate, or culture perhaps — made East and West unalterably different, and determined that the industrial revolution would happen in the West and push it further ahead of the East. But the East led the West between 500 and 1600, so this development can't have been inevitable; and so proponents of "Short-Term Accident" theories argue that Western rule was a temporary aberration that is now coming to an end, with Japan, China, and India resuming their rightful places on the world stage. However, as the West led for 9,000 of the previous 10,000 years, it wasn't just a temporary aberration. So, if we want to know why the West rules, we need a whole new theory. Ian Morris, boldly entering the turf of Jared Diamond and Niall Ferguson, provides the broader approach that is necessary, combining the textual historian's focus on context, the anthropological archaeologist's awareness of the deep past, and the social scientist's comparative methods to make sense of the past, present, and future— in a way no one has ever done before.
历史总能给人以展望未来的启示。然而不同的人看到不同的历史,由之而来的启示也各自不同。说实话,如果你想从历史中找到某些规律和教训来支持你对未来的规划,你几乎总能找到的。 西风压倒东风 成功者如果不清楚自己是怎么成功的,那他将很难复制这一成功;而失败者如果不清楚...
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 評分地理,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...
很怪異的一本世界史。。。地理決定論的典型。。
评分完整讀下來瞭,講的不是很明白
评分作者的寫作風格真是風趣幽默,即使是這樣比較嚴肅的話題也能聊的妙趣橫生。
评分Morris基本上是將地理決定論和生物學/社會學串在一起,提供瞭Needham問題一個大曆史跨度的解釋。很難說有太大振聾發聵的新思路,但數據和史料運用紮實、行文流暢優雅,確實是學界backbone類型的中堅力量。
评分完整讀下來瞭,講的不是很明白
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