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Ian Morris teaches classics, history, and archaeology at Stanford University. Born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1960, he now lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California. He has directed excavations in Greece and Italy, and has published 11 books and more than 80 articles. His most recent book, "Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future" (Profile Books, 2010), tells the stories of East and West across 15,000 years, from the final days of the Ice Age into the 22nd century, explaining why the West came to dominate the rest--and what will happen next. His next book, called "War! What is It Good For?" will look at war from prehuman times to our own, making two controversial claims--first, that war has helped humanity as well as harming it; and second, that war is now changing out of all recognition.
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- 历史
- 世界历史
- 英文原版
- 文化
- 比较历史
- 最好的一本比较分析东西方文明的专著
- 东西方文明对比
- English
Like most of us living in the West I have have pondered this question from time to time. Why did the west come out in front, and will it last? Should we all start learning Chinese? And was it inevitable - were Westerners more open-minded, or harder working, or were we just super-lucky to have had the industrial revolution? Or was it simply the work of exceptional people such as Julius Caesar, James Watt or Columbus?
Morris looks at this from a different angle. He uses an index of social development to analyse how societies have risen and fallen (including energy capture, organisation/urbanisation, war-making and information technology). But most importantly he tells a brilliant story of global history. It's a big book, but it has to be, to cover its full scope.
Part history, part archaeology, part geography, part biology and part sociology it is the work of a real polymath. It's incredibly readable too, beginning with a terrific fantasy of how things might have been. I didn't agree with all of it but it's still the best history book I've read this year. You may guess that I felt stongly about this book.
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解码东西文明的前世今生 文/王传言 【《西方将主宰多久》，伊恩·莫里斯著，钱峰译，中信出版社，2014年5月】 对于人类历史的发展，无数历史学家都进行自身解读。有的从编年体的角度，将人类历史的每个过程都涉及其中，比如斯塔夫里阿诺斯的《全球通史》；有的从世界各个民...
评分 评分在《西方将主宰多久》一书中，斯坦福大学教授伊恩•莫里斯运用贾雷德•戴蒙德在《枪炮，病菌与钢铁》用的类似的生物学和社会学方法来解答斯宾格勒提出的问题，西方为什么会没落，东方为什么开始超越西方。他得出的结论和戴蒙德的结论类似，都是地理因素最重要。 伊恩•莫...
评分—— 读《西方将主宰多久》和《丝绸之路》引起的思考 Part I. 谁是东方，谁是西方？ 今年早些时候第一次读斯坦福大学历史学家伊恩-莫里斯的《西方将主宰多久》，当即拜倒。莫里斯的厉害之处是身为历史学家的他提取了大量来自史料和考古学的数据，创造性地使用了量化的指标来...
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人在生物学、社会学意义上并无区别，只是地理上的差异决定了东西方文明出现的早晚、发展的快慢和成长路径的不同。 然而，文明的演进存在相同的模式，其中最重要的是中心——边缘的互动关系，正是它推动社会发展的螺旋式上升。 似乎涵盖了The Prisoners of Geography和Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow两本书所探讨的领域，而且对未来的预见同后者一样灰暗。
评分太长了，得有上百万字吧。只看了前五章
评分科学！但是现在才看到考古而已
评分人在生物学、社会学意义上并无区别，只是地理上的差异决定了东西方文明出现的早晚、发展的快慢和成长路径的不同。 然而，文明的演进存在相同的模式，其中最重要的是中心——边缘的互动关系，正是它推动社会发展的螺旋式上升。 似乎涵盖了The Prisoners of Geography和Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow两本书所探讨的领域，而且对未来的预见同后者一样灰暗。
评分写得细腻、翔实，分析有理有据。只有时间说明问题，其它一律不堪一击。想起去年写过的一句话：“一切惺惺作态，都敌不过时间。” 行为是心理的掩饰或者真实，心理是行为的根源。
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