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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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.
《西方将主宰多久(Why the West rule-for now)》读后感 这是本很有趣的书,尽管其学术思想并不怎么专业,但在历史比较领域,也算是一枝奇葩。我从3月25日开始读这本书,到3月30日完成全书的3/4,中间因为陪大哥游玩及随之而来的清明假期而基本没有看,到今天一口气看完了,也...
评分 评分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...
开始的远古时代差点看不下去,后来跳过终于看进去了。印象最深的是关于必然与偶然的部分,细想好像真是long term probability这么回事。最后说到造成分化的地理又会在不久后失去意义,真的挺有格局跟历史感的。
评分很难在一本书上能够同时看到对东西方历史如此详尽的分析,这本书在一定程度上做到了,可能观点并不算很新颖,在我看来好像是杂陈了各家的观点一样,不过分析和史实的介绍还是很有独到之处
评分太长了,得有上百万字吧。只看了前五章
评分地缘政治学。对中国期望很高,很好。
评分是一本非常客观的历史书,从外国人眼里看整个中国的衰落。其实一切不是偶然,必然发生的,总在等待一个契机然后推波助澜酿成如此的局面。喜欢看故事的,那此书并不适合你。但如果你想看一个多角度历史的,请来看看此书。
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