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伊恩·莫里斯是斯坦福大学的历史学和古典文学教授。目前，他已出版十部学术性著作，包括最近的《远古帝国的兴衰》。同时，他还指导了希腊和意大利的考古挖掘。他现在居住在加利福尼亚州的圣克鲁斯山。

出版者:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

作者:Ian Morris

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页数:768

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出版时间:2010-10-12

价格:USD 35.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780374290023

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历史
中西文化
社会学
政治
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Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West — and what this portends for the 21st century.

There are two broad schools of thought on why the West rules. Proponents of "Long-Term Lock-In" theories such as Jared Diamond suggest that from time immemorial, some critical factor— geography, climate, or culture perhaps — made East and West unalterably different, and determined that the industrial revolution would happen in the West and push it further ahead of the East. But the East led the West between 500 and 1600, so this development can't have been inevitable; and so proponents of "Short-Term Accident" theories argue that Western rule was a temporary aberration that is now coming to an end, with Japan, China, and India resuming their rightful places on the world stage. However, as the West led for 9,000 of the previous 10,000 years, it wasn't just a temporary aberration. So, if we want to know why the West rules, we need a whole new theory. Ian Morris, boldly entering the turf of Jared Diamond and Niall Ferguson, provides the broader approach that is necessary, combining the textual historian's focus on context, the anthropological archaeologist's awareness of the deep past, and the social scientist's comparative methods to make sense of the past, present, and future— in a way no one has ever done before.

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地理，社会，和生物学法则的相互作用：生物学告诉我们，人类为什么要推动社会发展；社会学告诉我们，人类是如何做到（或者做不到）推动社会发展的（莫里斯定理：导致变化的原因是懒惰，贪婪，恐惧的人们寻求更为简便易行，获利丰厚，安全可靠的做事方法。他们对自己正在做的事...

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世界中心一直在转移。“历史发端于苏美尔”，当生活在两河流域的苏美尔人开始创造文字，缔造城市时，最初的世界中心便在两河流域。这一块土地上诞生了不少伟大文明，苏美尔、巴比伦、亚述、赫梯…… 下一个世界中心转移到了非洲，是埃及。美尼斯统一上下埃及，他的后人们营建金...

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历史学家想用数据说话，他自己的指数（energy, organization, information, war）的heuristic 本身就有问题，而且测量标准不一，也都瞎估计，自己还承认有10%不超过20%的误差。唯一赞同的一句话是"..societies' abilities to get things done.. is the point of life"

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很怪异的一本世界史。。。地理决定论的典型。。

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其实你的思考早已被人汇编成书/ 听西方人讲中国历史总是有趣

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正文结束，附注稍微瞄了一下。

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Morris基本上是将地理决定论和生物学/社会学串在一起，提供了Needham问题一个大历史跨度的解释。很难说有太大振聋发聩的新思路，但数据和史料运用扎实、行文流畅优雅，确实是学界backbone类型的中坚力量。