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Ian Morris

Princeton University Press

2013-1-27

400

USD 29.95

Hardcover

9780691155685

图书标签: 历史社会学社会政治社会学美国经济史社会科学海外中国研究

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In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares societies in different times and places, award-winning author Ian Morris sets forth a sweeping examination of Eastern and Western development across 15,000 years since the end of the last ice age. He offers surprising conclusions about when and why the West came to dominate the world and fresh perspectives for thinking about the twenty-first century.

Adapting the United Nations' approach for measuring human development, Morris's index breaks social development into four traits--energy capture per capita, organization, information technology, and war-making capacity--and he uses archaeological, historical, and current government data to quantify patterns. Morris reveals that for 90 percent of the time since the last ice age, the world's most advanced region has been at the western end of Eurasia, but contrary to what many historians once believed, there were roughly 1,200 years--from about 550 to 1750 CE--when an East Asian region was more advanced. Only in the late eighteenth century CE, when northwest Europeans tapped into the energy trapped in fossil fuels, did the West leap ahead.

Resolving some of the biggest debates in global history, The Measure of Civilization puts forth innovative tools for determining past, present, and future economic and social trends.

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Ian Morris is the Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and professor of history at Stanford University. His most recent book is the award-winning Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) which has been translated into eleven languages.

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该书对过去1.4万年间社会文化复杂性和等级制度数据的汇总。如何理解这些数据，需要与莫里斯2010年出版的《为什么西方要暂时统治世界》一书结合起来看。莫里斯在书中引入了社会发展指数这一概念，其旨在量化“社会群体掌握其生理和智力环境并在世界上完成任务的能力”。本书详尽描述了该指数是如何设计和计算的，并试图证明其作为社会发展指标的价值，如何阐明了社会发展的进程。为此，莫里斯根据人类社会发展水平设计了一套指数，该指数包括四个部分组成：包括能源获取、社会组织、作战能力和信息技术。在书中，莫里斯研究了这一指数的长期趋势，他将时间趋势和地理模式与气候变化、疾病和许多其他因素联系起来。尽管莫里斯的核心方法是定量的，但作为他解释东西方差异的基础的解释本质上是定性的。他以构建的时间序列作为叙事的基础，将随着

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