Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World and The Ascent of Money. He writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. He has written and presented five highly successful television document series for Channel Four: Empire, American Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money and, most recently, Civilization.
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•弗格森对中国人民很有感情,有事没事就写文章表扬咱们两句,算是一滴不折不扣的中国蜜。早在2010年11月,这哥们就在《华尔街日报》写了一篇文章,标题叫In China's Orbit,霸气得很,可译成“世界围绕中国旋转”或者“世界沿着中国轨道前行”,如果直逼一点就是——咱...
評分第一章: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...
評分 評分【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...
評分西方陷入了焦虑。这种焦虑既来自对反恐战争漫无尽头的不满,也来自对非西方国家迅速崛起的担忧。去年美国信用评级下调,欧洲债务危机加剧,而中国和其他“金砖”国家持续推动着全球增长。据高盛公司预测,2027年中国的经济规模将超过美国,尽管前者的人均收入仍低于后者。与美...
結構獨特,史實詳盡,讀瞭人會變聰明。
评分重點學習用英文講述中國曆史部分:)
评分西方徵服世界的六個殺手級應用:競爭,科學,産權法,醫學,消費主義和職業倫理。
评分提齣六個基本點的通俗讀物
评分5星給作者的博學與文筆,3星給作者的潛意識裏的英美中心論與西方文化至上論。整體閱讀體驗還是很好的,打算按亞馬遜的推薦繼續閱讀作者的另外兩本
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