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.
http://headsalon.org/archives/1530.html 不知何故,對Jared Diamond那本雄心勃勃的《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》(Guns, Germs, and Steel)一直不抱多大期望,或許是我對暢銷書有些偏見吧,但這次顯然錯瞭,讀過前幾章,已讓我驚嘆:這正是多年來我所期待的那種曆史研究啊。 年輕...
評分 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 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...
補全瞭一些以前沒有想過的道理... 全書雖然買瞭電子版但卻是在開車途中聽完audiobook的. 多快好省, 非常贊
评分現在果然笨瞭………這書看瞭好久
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评分Using scientific inevitability to explain historical changes is dangerous.
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