圖書標籤: 社會 曆史 拉賈·戴濛德 政治學 比爾蓋茨推薦 政治 英文原版 美國
发表于2025-01-22
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In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change — a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.
In a dazzling comparative study, Diamond shows us how seven countries have survived defining upheavals in the recent past — from US Commodore Perry’s arrival in Japan to the Soviet invasion of Finland to Pinochet’s regime in Chile — through a process of painful self-appraisal and adaptation, and he identifies patterns in the way that these distinct nations recovered from calamity. Looking ahead to the future, he investigates whether the United States, and the world, are squandering their natural advantages, on a path towards political conflict and decline. Or can we still learn from the lessons of the past?
Adding a psychological dimension to the awe-inspiring grasp of history, geography, economics, and anthropology that marks all Diamond’s work, Upheaval reveals how both nations and individuals can become more resilient. The result is a book that is epic, urgent, and groundbreaking.
Jared Diamond, a noted polymath, is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among his many awards are the U.S. National Medal of Science, Japan’s Cosmos Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of the international best-selling books Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, Why Is Sex Fun?, The World until Yesterday, and The Third Chimpanzee, and is the presenter of TV documentary series based on three of those books.
讀的時候很順,但Diamond的書總給人一種民科的感覺
評分頗有幾段不太能讀到的國傢(如印尼、澳大利亞、智利)的曆史動蕩,非常清晰。
評分不愧是Jared Diamond,以獨到新穎的角度,用個人類比國傢以此更形象深刻地理解危機的概念和影響,並用12個與危機産生結果有關的因素構成的框架很全麵深入地剖析7個國傢和全世界遭遇的不同危機和相應應對措施,預示未來潛在的危機,提議更嚴謹詳細的量化研究和通過對曆史經驗的學習更好地應對危機,敘述通俗易懂詼諧幽默;第9章對美國的剖析中涉及到與中國的比較將兩國的優缺點都列舉齣來,國內若引進估計不會完整保留。
評分前半掃盲後半洗腦。雖是麵嚮美國人的generalization,但也讓無知的我吃得心甘情願 | Framework 還算一些有意思,雖然學術卦得有些明顯 | 如果82歲的時候能像作者一樣見識經曆過多個文化國傢的曆史變遷大約也不枉此生瞭吧
評分危機處理的框架對於深度分析作用其實不是很大,更像一本專欄閤集。也許是期待太高吧。
The book resonates with me so much. The author had gone through a personal crisis arising from the dilemma between discontinueing his field of studies and becoming a simultaneous translator. I used to have similar personal crisis like the author did. I also...
評分The book resonates with me so much. The author had gone through a personal crisis arising from the dilemma between discontinueing his field of studies and becoming a simultaneous translator. I used to have similar personal crisis like the author did. I also...
評分The book resonates with me so much. The author had gone through a personal crisis arising from the dilemma between discontinueing his field of studies and becoming a simultaneous translator. I used to have similar personal crisis like the author did. I also...
評分The book resonates with me so much. The author had gone through a personal crisis arising from the dilemma between discontinueing his field of studies and becoming a simultaneous translator. I used to have similar personal crisis like the author did. I also...
評分The book resonates with me so much. The author had gone through a personal crisis arising from the dilemma between discontinueing his field of studies and becoming a simultaneous translator. I used to have similar personal crisis like the author did. I also...
Upheaval pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025