贾雷德·戴蒙德,加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校医学院生理学教授以生理学开始其科学生涯,进而研究演化生物学和生物地理学,被选为美国艺术与科学院、国家科学院院士、美国哲学学会会员,曾获得麦克阿瑟基金会研究员基金及全国地理学会伯尔奖,在《发现》、《博物学》、《自然》和《地理》杂志上发表过论文200多篇。
发表于2025-04-08
Guns, Germs, and Steel 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
零、 戴蒙德的专业是生物学和新几内亚人类学考察,除此之外写的都是科普书,而且前后重复(后面所有的书不过是扩写他的第一本书第三种猩猩而已),观点陈旧(他的人类学理论训练很可能停留在人类学2.0版本的反思民族志之前,因此习以为常地使用人类学1.0版本的西方中心论或东方...
评分0. 发现书看一半时往往更愿意写评论。常常看完了之后当初的兴奋也没了。 所以,这本砖头般厚实的书今天刚刚K完四分之一,因为兴奋莫名,所以先来说几句。要是看完了还有要讲的,再来添吧。。。 这本书已经流行了好一阵子了,可是这个书名老是让我想起那个叫“Gun & Roses” ...
评分这个学期比较空闲,思考、阅读兴趣比较倾向于宏大叙事,而且一直在变化,从最开始的为什么会有穷人和富人,到为什么穷国和富国同样能力的人收入不同,到为什么会有穷国和富国,再到为什么会突然出现工业革命并在英国,到人类社会如何发展的及差异的原因,最后到为什么会出现人...
评分我不是学历史的,不知道“大历史”这个词具体是什么时候在大陆悄然兴起。从我自己的感受来看,大概是黄仁宇的《中国大历史》一书以中文出版后热卖,“大历史”的观念就开始在民众和一般知识分子中流行。随后就有一系列西方学者的历史著作被介绍到中国。在我看来,大历史观念似...
图书标签: 历史 人类学 社会学 英文原版 anthropology 社会 Diamond 文明
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, "Guns, Germs and Steel" encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers.
每一个章节有自成体系的论述,条理清晰,可以skim也可以细细读,可见笔者写作功力。从写作层面上讲很值得学习;论述方面,从人类学,地理,历史的角度解答几个近现代遗留问题--历史是偶然也是必然。最后的afterwords一定要看!
评分History has its victors and victims, of course, and Diamond's account of how those victims became victims is not inviting to both sides. On the side of victors, he underrates their cultural autonomy,and on the side of victims, he offers them an inevitable and miserable destiny.
评分Using scientific inevitability to explain historical changes is dangerous.
评分写得太好了!逻辑非常清晰:欧亚大陆的居民因优厚的自然环境而率先发明了农业,进而有富余的食物提供给不从事农业生产的专业人士,如工匠、士兵和官僚,还在与家畜的接触中拥有了对诸多病菌的免疫力,最终让欧亚大陆在面对美洲、大洋洲和撒哈拉以南的非洲的原住民时无往不利,让从欧亚大陆发源的文明与其后裔成为了当今世界的主宰。所谓老天爷赏饭吃,就是如此了。#推荐给所有地理爱好者
评分一年前的这个时候,每天做完实验在地铁上读的书。
Guns, Germs, and Steel 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书