尼尔·弗格森,英国最著名的历史学家之一。哈佛大学历史系教授、牛津大学高级研究员,同时也是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的高级研究员。他是极少数能横跨学术界、金融界和媒体的专家之一。著有《货币崛起》等多部畅销书,同时还为多家报纸和杂志撰稿。此外,他还制作了四部非常成功的电视纪录片:《帝国》、《美国巨人》、《世界战争》,以及最近的《货币崛起》。2004年被《时代》周刊评为“影响世界的100人”之一。
If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe – Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland – would have seemed little better. As for fifteenth-century North America, it was an anarchic wilderness compared with the realms of the Aztecs and Incas. The idea that the West would come to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would have struck you as wildly fanciful. And yet it happened. What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six “killer applications” that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy. Civilization takes readers on their own extraordinary journey around the world – from the Grand Canal at Nanjing to the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul; from Machu Picchu in the Andes to Shark Island, Namibia; from the proud towers of Prague to the secret churches of Wenzhou. It is the story of sailboats, missiles, land deeds, vaccines, blue jeans and Chinese Bibles. It is the defining narrative of modern world history.
因为是土摩托推荐的,才去找来看看 当时吸引我的是杀手级应用, 看了书以后,真的是这样吗? 6个都是杀手级应用就让东西方文明主导位置发生了质变? 以500年时间为轴,您总可以找出3个5个10个的? 人的基因演变这么复杂,人类社会。文明就用这么6个关键词说清楚? 就算找出关键...
评分五味杂陈读《文明》 ——我读《文明》 文蠹鱼 这是读尼尔•弗格森的第二本书。先前的是开创性自传体,写顶级金融家西格蒙德。《文明》,又是大部头作品。说心里话,此本对于我来说,有分析上的难度。因近日曾读过袁剑的《大拐点》,不同程度上有相悖的地方。这个时候,我就...
评分【http://blog.sina.com.cn/leiwon】面对拉塞勒斯之问——“欧洲人为何能如此强大?他们为什么能如此轻易地踏足于非洲和亚洲,进行贸易或征服?亚洲人和非洲人为什么不能入侵他们的海岸线,在他们的港口设立殖民地,将法令加诸他们的王室?”——作者提出了六个因素,并认为这...
评分尼尔·弗格森应该算得上近几年来比较出名历史学家了,我比较感兴趣的是他的其他学术背景,他主修的其实是金融学。在这本书的一开篇,他就提出了在现今的西方,学生们的历史学习都是很片段的,而且他也很忧患的提出,正是由于人们对历史的不重视,导致了对未来形势的看不清楚。...
评分因为是土摩托推荐的,才去找来看看 当时吸引我的是杀手级应用, 看了书以后,真的是这样吗? 6个都是杀手级应用就让东西方文明主导位置发生了质变? 以500年时间为轴,您总可以找出3个5个10个的? 人的基因演变这么复杂,人类社会。文明就用这么6个关键词说清楚? 就算找出关键...
终于看完了,西方国家和世界上其他国家的文明的各种对比贯穿全书。假如西方文明崩塌了,世界会不会如同当年罗马帝国衰亡之时一般进入黑暗?有可能。
评分competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic.只想看看protestant work ethic.
评分拿什么拯救你,我的文明。
评分尼尔弗格森不愧是西方的余秋雨易中天,书写的水银泻地旁证博弈,提纲掣领又大气辉煌。只是读完之后又有点找不到重点,很多分析稍显牵强粗浅。值得一读,但是似乎并不配得上多少学术价值。
评分competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic.只想看看protestant work ethic.
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