賈雷德·戴濛德,加利福尼亞大學洛杉磯分校醫學院生理學教授以生理學開始其科學生涯,進而研究演化生物學和生物地理學,被選為美國藝術與科學院、國傢科學院院士、美國哲學學會會員,曾獲得麥剋阿瑟基金會研究員基金及全國地理學會伯爾奬,在《發現》、《博物學》、《自然》和《地理》雜誌上發錶過論文200多篇。
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, "Guns, Germs and Steel" encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers.
书是好书,但这本最大的问题是翻译质量太差了!!也就是获取个基本信息,完全体会不到文字的美。句子又臭又长,一看就是对着英语原句对照过来的,翻译质量太差了。怀疑就是某个老师找了几个学生一人一部分凑出来的。 --
評分我不是学历史的,不知道“大历史”这个词具体是什么时候在大陆悄然兴起。从我自己的感受来看,大概是黄仁宇的《中国大历史》一书以中文出版后热卖,“大历史”的观念就开始在民众和一般知识分子中流行。随后就有一系列西方学者的历史著作被介绍到中国。在我看来,大历史观念似...
評分【读品】李牧之 如何理解人类的发展史?在挖掘冷冰冰的事实的时候,人们从制度转型的角度来试图解释为什么会这样。而政治、经济与社会则是理解制度转型最重要的三个方面。工业革命之前的历史书写多以政治、军事史为主线,《罗马帝国衰亡史》的作者吉本就自称"史书的主题是公共...
評分尽管anthropology在国外很多学院已有上百年历史,人类学在国内似乎还是一个很年轻的词语,相关的中文书籍也不是很多,Jared Diamond的这本普利策获奖作品不失为了解这一领域的一扇大门。 除了文字的记录,考古的发掘,其实还可以从许多角度审视历史,不同的方法,变幻的尺度,...
評分http://headsalon.org/archives/1530.html 不知何故,对Jared Diamond那本雄心勃勃的《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》(Guns, Germs, and Steel)一直不抱多大期望,或许是我对畅销书有些偏见吧,但这次显然错了,读过前几章,已让我惊叹:这正是多年来我所期待的那种历史研究啊。 年轻...
History has its victors and victims, of course, and Diamond's account of how those victims became victims is not inviting to both sides. On the side of victors, he underrates their cultural autonomy,and on the side of victims, he offers them an inevitable and miserable destiny.
评分終於看完瞭一遍,然後,然後,覺得得快點看第二遍,然後做筆記。這樣的曆史書纔是我喜歡的,不是事實的堆砌,更多是背後的邏輯,所謂的曆史科學。呀,我又想起瞭基地的心理史學^_^
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