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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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- 曆史
- 世界曆史
- 英文原版
- 文化
- 比較曆史
- 最好的一本比較分析東西方文明的專著
- 東西方文明對比
- 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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此文已刊于2011年9月19日《南方都市报》，有删节。 尽管美国的霸主地位日渐衰落，中印等东方古国重新崛起，西方依旧统治着这个世界。经济生产能力直接体现了西方在全球的统治优势。上世纪五十年代，鸟类学家戴蒙德（Jared Diamond）在巴布几内亚的丛林观察动物行为，与...
評分此文已刊于2011年9月19日《南方都市报》，有删节。 尽管美国的霸主地位日渐衰落，中印等东方古国重新崛起，西方依旧统治着这个世界。经济生产能力直接体现了西方在全球的统治优势。上世纪五十年代，鸟类学家戴蒙德（Jared Diamond）在巴布几内亚的丛林观察动物行为，与...
評分在《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...
評分地理，社会，和生物学法则的相互作用： 生物学告诉我们，人类为什么要推动社会发展；社会学告诉我们，人类是如何做到（或者做不到）推动社会发展的（莫里斯定理：导致变化的原因是懒惰，贪婪，恐惧的人们寻求更为简便易行，获利丰厚，安全可靠的做事方法。他们对自己正在做的事...
評分文/严杰夫 “为何中国在科技发展上长期领先西方，而现代科学竟出现于西方而不是中国？在最近的数百年里，中国的科技会停滞不前，以至于成了一个备受欺辱的衰老帝国的？”大约半个世纪之前，英国科学家李约瑟在对中国进行了11次考察后，提出了这几个问题。此后李约瑟的这几个提...
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寫得細膩、翔實，分析有理有據。隻有時間說明問題，其它一律不堪一擊。想起去年寫過的一句話：“一切惺惺作態，都敵不過時間。” 行為是心理的掩飾或者真實，心理是行為的根源。
评分科學！但是現在纔看到考古而已
评分人在生物學、社會學意義上並無區彆，隻是地理上的差異決定瞭東西方文明齣現的早晚、發展的快慢和成長路徑的不同。 然而，文明的演進存在相同的模式，其中最重要的是中心——邊緣的互動關係，正是它推動社會發展的螺鏇式上升。 似乎涵蓋瞭The Prisoners of Geography和Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow兩本書所探討的領域，而且對未來的預見同後者一樣灰暗。
评分地緣政治學。對中國期望很高，很好。
评分A very good history book that put East on par with West
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