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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.
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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.
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陈丹青口中美国人长着张“不被欺负的脸”，跟涵怡伉俪聊天时我亦做过类似表述。不过我说的是这的孩子眼神透亮坚定，带着一股“我肯定能行”，“谁也别想欺负我”的劲头。能不能行未必只取决于劲头。谦卑隐忍未必一定不行。我们的文化往往体现出的是反证。十年前在东亚四方课堂...
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...
評分 評分西方文明如此普遍，以至于我们忘记了他们是“西方”文明，例如全球大学机制都向西方靠拢，医疗科学组织也如此，如今世上大部分人接受了自牛顿、达尔文到爱因斯坦的西方科学， 生病时也主要寻求西医的帮助，很少社会抵御西方营销和消费模式的侵入以及西方生活方式。越来越多...
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...
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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Blikist掃過。不算新鮮的六大元素主導瞭西方這幾個世紀來的主導地位：競爭精神（地緣政治導緻的日常戰火催生裝備升級&資本主義）、科學實證原則（read bible on your own led a rise in literacy&printing)、representative gov based on property rights&rule of law,當代醫學、消費主義、清教徒思想:work hard&save money. 沒有特彆新鮮的概念，有幾條感覺是為瞭湊字數，比如當代醫學完全可以歸入科學中去。其實核心就是地緣政治和第三條，然而這恰恰是華人文化無法照搬的。
评分企鵝平裝版。基本上是把先賢們已有的結論炒個冷飯，裏邊繞過瞭Democracy而直接以Property代之還是蠻有意思的。
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
评分曆史學的太好容易學成大仙或者中國人民的老朋友...不過叔文筆是真好
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