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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.
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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.
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2011年很显然是Niall Ferguson的一年，抛下英国去了米国并且娶了索马里小三的历史学哥们，终于在力挺中国经济的7，8年后成为了最主流的经济史学家。Civilization是一本Ferguson回归西方的书，主要的观点在于六大杀手软件：医学，私有制，竞争，科学，消费力，以及道德水平。这...
評分 評分 評分用戶評價
今年寒假虎平要是還給大傢推薦書，這本書絕對是在書單上的瞭。第一章裏說南京在1420年是全球最大的城市，人口在50萬至100萬之間。
评分Hindsight's 20/20
评分曆史學的太好容易學成大仙或者中國人民的老朋友...不過叔文筆是真好
评分最適閤早餐桌上，馬桶坐上閱讀。奇聞異事很多，真知灼見就馬馬虎虎瞭。
评分尼爾·弗格森老師牛逼。但是副標題還是泛瞭，不是"The West and the Rest"，而應該是"The Anglo-Saxons and the Rest"。弗格森老師自己念自己的書，些微的蘇格蘭口音還是很萌的。
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