Why the West Rules--For Now pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2025
The Economists 2010年度推薦，FT中文網年度薦書，2011年奧威爾寫作奬提名
伊恩·莫裏斯是斯坦福大學的曆史學和古典文學教授。目前，他已齣版十部學術性著作，包括最近的《遠古帝國的興衰》。同時，他還指導瞭希臘和意大利的考古挖掘。他現在居住在加利福尼亞州的聖剋魯斯山。
- 曆史
- 中西文化
- 社會學
- 政治
- 英文原版
- 文化
- 比較政治
- 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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东西方文明的大分流，是学界至今争论不休的话题。概括起来，分“长期决定派”和“短期决定派”。 在长期决定派看来，西方超越东方是历史的必然，这是西方文化的根性所决定的，伟大的马克斯•韦伯和汤因比都倾向于这个观点，按这个理路，除彻底放弃东方文明，或仅仅把它变成...
評分 評分 評分文/严杰夫 “为何中国在科技发展上长期领先西方，而现代科学竟出现于西方而不是中国？在最近的数百年里，中国的科技会停滞不前，以至于成了一个备受欺辱的衰老帝国的？”大约半个世纪之前，英国科学家李约瑟在对中国进行了11次考察后，提出了这几个问题。此后李约瑟的这几个提...
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Economist 2010曆史推薦第一 我覺得名字起的不好，有賺眼球的感覺。學文科的不嚴謹啊！！就兩個重復事實能導齣公式麼????觀點比較新穎。
评分有細菌槍炮與鋼鐵珠玉在前，此書地位難免要低一點，但是仍然值得好好讀。寫得太長，陸陸續續用瞭我好幾個月時間纔看完，減一個星。
评分完整讀下來瞭，講的不是很明白
评分曆史學傢想用數據說話，他自己的指數（energy, organization, information, war）的heuristic 本身就有問題，而且測量標準不一，也都瞎估計，自己還承認有10%不超過20%的誤差。唯一贊同的一句話是"..societies' abilities to get things done.. is the point of life"
评分作者敘事非常之流暢有趣，即使在嚴謹部分依然有可讀性，十分難得。我看古史覺得非常有趣，近代史太熟悉瞭。這樣的通史有錯誤在所難免，但能夠提供養分和新觀點的就是好書，本書既是如此。
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