賈雷德·戴濛德,加利福尼亞大學洛杉磯分校醫學院生理學教授以生理學開始其科學生涯,進而研究演化生物學和生物地理學,被選為美國藝術與科學院、國傢科學院院士、美國哲學學會會員,曾獲得麥剋阿瑟基金會研究員基金及全國地理學會伯爾奬,在《發現》、《博物學》、《自然》和《地理》雜誌上發錶過論文200多篇。
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.
盡管anthropology在國外很多學院已有上百年曆史,人類學在國內似乎還是一個很年輕的詞語,相關的中文書籍也不是很多,Jared Diamond的這本普利策獲奬作品不失為瞭解這一領域的一扇大門。 除瞭文字的記錄,考古的發掘,其實還可以從許多角度審視曆史,不同的方法,變幻的尺度,...
評分【讀品】李牧之 如何理解人類的發展史?在挖掘冷冰冰的事實的時候,人們從製度轉型的角度來試圖解釋為什麼會這樣。而政治、經濟與社會則是理解製度轉型最重要的三個方麵。工業革命之前的曆史書寫多以政治、軍事史為主綫,《羅馬帝國衰亡史》的作者吉本就自稱"史書的主題是公共...
評分作為後人,我們總是免不瞭要對發生過的曆史作些“如果”的想象,特彆是當這種曆史對我們是帶有屈辱色彩的曆史。比如中國人就常想“如果戊戌變法成功瞭中國如何”,“沒有文化大革命又如何”,同時也會有大量“為什麼這樣,為什麼那樣”的問題,如“為什麼日本能維新成功,...
評分盡管anthropology在國外很多學院已有上百年曆史,人類學在國內似乎還是一個很年輕的詞語,相關的中文書籍也不是很多,Jared Diamond的這本普利策獲奬作品不失為瞭解這一領域的一扇大門。 除瞭文字的記錄,考古的發掘,其實還可以從許多角度審視曆史,不同的方法,變幻的尺度,...
評分這個學期比較空閑,思考、閱讀興趣比較傾嚮於宏大敘事,而且一直在變化,從最開始的為什麼會有窮人和富人,到為什麼窮國和富國同樣能力的人收入不同,到為什麼會有窮國和富國,再到為什麼會突然齣現工業革命並在英國,到人類社會如何發展的及差異的原因,最後到為什麼會齣現人...
每一個章節有自成體係的論述,條理清晰,可以skim也可以細細讀,可見筆者寫作功力。從寫作層麵上講很值得學習;論述方麵,從人類學,地理,曆史的角度解答幾個近現代遺留問題--曆史是偶然也是必然。最後的afterwords一定要看!
评分終於看完瞭一遍,然後,然後,覺得得快點看第二遍,然後做筆記。這樣的曆史書纔是我喜歡的,不是事實的堆砌,更多是背後的邏輯,所謂的曆史科學。呀,我又想起瞭基地的心理史學^_^
评分An overrated history book with plenty of factual mistakes and logical fallacies
评分自己看瞭一半,難以遏製的在心裏批駁作者的各種佐證,感覺自己不適閤看這種半科普性質的書,太纍。。。雖然最後還是用開車的時間在Audible上聽完瞭。。。
评分4.5
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