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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。
- 历史
- 中西文化
- 社会学
- 政治
- 英文原版
- 文化
- 比较政治
- history
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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在《西方将主宰多久》一书中，斯坦福大学教授伊恩•莫里斯运用贾雷德•戴蒙德在《枪炮，病菌与钢铁》用的类似的生物学和社会学方法来解答斯宾格勒提出的问题，西方为什么会没落，东方为什么开始超越西方。他得出的结论和戴蒙德的结论类似，都是地理因素最重要。 伊恩•莫...
评分 评分在《西方将主宰多久》一书中，斯坦福大学教授伊恩•莫里斯运用贾雷德•戴蒙德在《枪炮，病菌与钢铁》用的类似的生物学和社会学方法来解答斯宾格勒提出的问题，西方为什么会没落，东方为什么开始超越西方。他得出的结论和戴蒙德的结论类似，都是地理因素最重要。 伊恩•莫...
评分西方将主宰多久 英国东印度公司18世纪末每年从中国运往伦敦的茶值2300万英镑。 天平天国是世界上最后一场传统战争。 1854年，日本被作为中美间的加煤的中转站。 为什么西方有马克沁机枪，而其他地方没有？ 对于东西方的差别，长期注定理论是其中之一，马克思的版本最为重要，也...
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宏大视野，从人类的角度思考问题。
评分Chimerican
评分这绝对是我这几年读到最有启发的书了。
评分穿越上万年的历史来总结人类的发展规律
评分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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