图书标签: 历史 世界历史 文明史 尼尔·弗格森 History 原文 Niall Ferguson
发表于2024-07-12
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If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe – Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland – would have seemed little better. As for fifteenth-century North America, it was an anarchic wilderness compared with the realms of the Aztecs and Incas. The idea that the West would come to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would have struck you as wildly fanciful. And yet it happened. What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six “killer applications” that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy. Civilization takes readers on their own extraordinary journey around the world – from the Grand Canal at Nanjing to the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul; from Machu Picchu in the Andes to Shark Island, Namibia; from the proud towers of Prague to the secret churches of Wenzhou. It is the story of sailboats, missiles, land deeds, vaccines, blue jeans and Chinese Bibles. It is the defining narrative of modern world history.
尼尔·弗格森,英国最著名的历史学家之一。哈佛大学历史系教授、牛津大学高级研究员,同时也是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的高级研究员。他是极少数能横跨学术界、金融界和媒体的专家之一。著有《货币崛起》等多部畅销书,同时还为多家报纸和杂志撰稿。此外,他还制作了四部非常成功的电视纪录片:《帝国》、《美国巨人》、《世界战争》,以及最近的《货币崛起》。2004年被《时代》周刊评为“影响世界的100人”之一。
此书十分自说自话且牵强。。。不过也不算白读因为我又增长了一点姿势!原来日语里不但スーツ是外来语(蛤),连背広其实都是savile row的音译哟。
评分终于看完了,西方国家和世界上其他国家的文明的各种对比贯穿全书。假如西方文明崩塌了,世界会不会如同当年罗马帝国衰亡之时一般进入黑暗?有可能。
评分拿什么拯救你,我的文明。
评分拿什么拯救你,我的文明。
评分此书十分自说自话且牵强。。。不过也不算白读因为我又增长了一点姿势!原来日语里不但スーツ是外来语(蛤),连背広其实都是savile row的音译哟。
英国著名哲学家罗素曾通过其名著《西方的智慧》向世人展示了一幅哲学思想层面的西方史全景图,可是却遭人质疑:全书没有给东方的智慧留一席之地,意即该书无处不在充斥着对西方文化的夸耀和赞叹。在罗素看来,东西方两个世界是在互相隔绝的情况下各自发展的,因此,就西方思想...
评分 评分第一章:竞争 为什么在西方文明前面,东方文明压倒性的溃败。 因为,他们明白,什么才是永恒的动力。 首先是贪欲。 为了利润,为了财富,哥伦布麦哲伦这样的冒险家才会舍生忘死的寻找香料,追寻东方大陆。 而讲求存天理灭人欲的东方大国却是停滞和衰落。这大致能够说明,作为人...
评分Austria 和 Australia 看错了我也忍了;译者一点对历史的敏感度都没有,实在是基础教育打得太差。 上下文已经提示了,把A国和普鲁士和俄国并列提出来。稍有感觉的人也能知道这是奥地利吧??!!
评分Austria 和 Australia 看错了我也忍了;译者一点对历史的敏感度都没有,实在是基础教育打得太差。 上下文已经提示了,把A国和普鲁士和俄国并列提出来。稍有感觉的人也能知道这是奥地利吧??!!
Civilization pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024