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发表于2024-05-04
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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.
Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World and The Ascent of Money. He writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. He has written and presented five highly successful television document series for Channel Four: Empire, American Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money and, most recently, Civilization.
Hindsight's 20/20
评分Blikist扫过。不算新鲜的六大元素主导了西方这几个世纪来的主导地位:竞争精神(地缘政治导致的日常战火催生装备升级&资本主义)、科学实证原则(read bible on your own led a rise in literacy&printing)、representative gov based on property rights&rule of law,当代医学、消费主义、清教徒思想:work hard&save money. 没有特别新鲜的概念,有几条感觉是为了凑字数,比如当代医学完全可以归入科学中去。其实核心就是地缘政治和第三条,然而这恰恰是华人文化无法照搬的。
评分尼尔·弗格森老师牛逼。但是副标题还是泛了,不是"The West and the Rest",而应该是"The Anglo-Saxons and the Rest"。弗格森老师自己念自己的书,些微的苏格兰口音还是很萌的。
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评分最适合早餐桌上,马桶坐上阅读。奇闻异事很多,真知灼见就马马虎虎了。
关于西方社会的崛起,有3本书值得一看 第一本是《钢铁、细菌和枪炮》,必读的一本。 第二本《国富国穷》台湾译本,原名叫做the wealth of nations 第三本是本书。 Niall Ferguson认为当下全球2大问题是西方大国主宰世界和亚洲的崛起。 作者认为西方国家的崛起其原因有6点:Scie...
评分关于西方社会的崛起,有3本书值得一看 第一本是《钢铁、细菌和枪炮》,必读的一本。 第二本《国富国穷》台湾译本,原名叫做the wealth of nations 第三本是本书。 Niall Ferguson认为当下全球2大问题是西方大国主宰世界和亚洲的崛起。 作者认为西方国家的崛起其原因有6点:Scie...
评分Austria 和 Australia 看错了我也忍了;译者一点对历史的敏感度都没有,实在是基础教育打得太差。 上下文已经提示了,把A国和普鲁士和俄国并列提出来。稍有感觉的人也能知道这是奥地利吧??!!
评分Civilization pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024