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.
尼爾·弗格森,英國最著名的曆史學傢之一。哈佛大學曆史係教授、牛津大學高級研究員,同時也是斯坦福大學鬍佛研究所的高級研究員。他是極少數能橫跨學術界、金融界和媒體的專傢之一。著有《貨幣崛起》等多部暢銷書,同時還為多傢報紙和雜誌撰稿。此外,他還製作瞭四部非常成功的電視紀錄片:《帝國》、《美國巨人》、《世界戰爭》,以及最近的《貨幣崛起》。2004年被《時代》周刊評為“影響世界的100人”之一。
【http://blog.sina.com.cn/leiwon】面对拉塞勒斯之问——“欧洲人为何能如此强大?他们为什么能如此轻易地踏足于非洲和亚洲,进行贸易或征服?亚洲人和非洲人为什么不能入侵他们的海岸线,在他们的港口设立殖民地,将法令加诸他们的王室?”——作者提出了六个因素,并认为这...
評分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...
評分2011年很显然是Niall Ferguson的一年,抛下英国去了米国并且娶了索马里小三的历史学哥们,终于在力挺中国经济的7,8年后成为了最主流的经济史学家。Civilization是一本Ferguson回归西方的书,主要的观点在于六大杀手软件:医学,私有制,竞争,科学,消费力,以及道德水平。这...
評分因为是土摩托推荐的,才去找来看看 当时吸引我的是杀手级应用, 看了书以后,真的是这样吗? 6个都是杀手级应用就让东西方文明主导位置发生了质变? 以500年时间为轴,您总可以找出3个5个10个的? 人的基因演变这么复杂,人类社会。文明就用这么6个关键词说清楚? 就算找出关键...
評分文明的6大杀手锏 《文明》书中列举了西方文明为何能在近五百年超越东方的六个关键词:竞争、科学、财产权、医学、消费社会、工作伦理等。 用我们熟悉的马克思主义,概括为两个优势:生产力优势,生产关系优势。 生产力优势包括;竞争、科学、医学。 生产关系优势包括:财产权、...
前麵讀著挺好,感覺作者思路有點跳但畢竟是我喜歡的比較witty的風格所以可以忍,直到倒數第二章關於宗教人設狂崩,把西方的衰落歸結為基督教的式微簡直就是知識分子之恥,邊讀邊喊WTF,最後是把溫州的經濟騰飛歸結為當地華人基督教的興起將本書的荒誕推嚮瞭高潮。珍愛生命,遠離神棍。
评分competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic.隻想看看protestant work ethic.
评分此書十分自說自話且牽強。。。不過也不算白讀因為我又增長瞭一點姿勢!原來日語裏不但スーツ是外來語(蛤),連背広其實都是savile row的音譯喲。
评分competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic.隻想看看protestant work ethic.
评分competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic.隻想看看protestant work ethic.
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