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Why the West Rules - for Now pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
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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打過膨大劑,七百多頁,其實篇幅縮減到一半就好。
評分A very good history book that put East on par with West
評分人在生物學、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。
評分地理論
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。
此文已刊于2011年9月19日《南方都市报》,有删节。 尽管美国的霸主地位日渐衰落,中印等东方古国重新崛起,西方依旧统治着这个世界。经济生产能力直接体现了西方在全球的统治优势。上世纪五十年代,鸟类学家戴蒙德(Jared Diamond)在巴布几内亚的丛林观察动物行为,与...
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評分书名真的是一个很大的噱头,几十页就可以说完的话愣是整了四百多页的废话。即使从史前几万年开始诉说那又怎样,从头到位影响人类社会进程的是:国家更迭、移民、疾病、饥荒和气候变化。这些因素让东西方核心文明从一个地方迁移至另一个地方,大致方向是从内陆到海洋。 ...
評分文/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《西方将主宰多久(Why the West rule-for now)》读后感 这是本很有趣的书,尽管其学术思想并不怎么专业,但在历史比较领域,也算是一枝奇葩。我从3月25日开始读这本书,到3月30日完成全书的3/4,中间因为陪大哥游玩及随之而来的清明假期而基本没有看,到今天一口气看完了,也...
Why the West Rules - for Now pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024