尼尔·弗格森,英国最著名的历史学家之一。哈佛大学历史系教授、牛津大学高级研究员,同时也是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的高级研究员。他是极少数能横跨学术界、金融界和媒体的专家之一。著有《货币崛起》等多部畅销书,同时还为多家报纸和杂志撰稿。此外,他还制作了四部非常成功的电视纪录片:《帝国》、《美国巨人》、《世界战争》,以及最近的《货币崛起》。2004年被《时代》周刊评为“影响世界的100人”之一。
发表于2024-11-22
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作者弗格森,凭一本《货币崛起》出名。预测中国经济发展将领先于世界。近年的欧债危机,美国财政赤字等等全球性经济衰退,以及中国经济仍然保持强劲内需与高速发展,使弗格森的观点越来越被世人所看重,并引发一个问题:西方长达数百年的领先地位,将会被替代吗? 要回答这个...
评分陈丹青口中美国人长着张“不被欺负的脸”,跟涵怡伉俪聊天时我亦做过类似表述。不过我说的是这的孩子眼神透亮坚定,带着一股“我肯定能行”,“谁也别想欺负我”的劲头。能不能行未必只取决于劲头。谦卑隐忍未必一定不行。我们的文化往往体现出的是反证。十年前在东亚四方课堂...
评分尼尔•弗格森对中国人民很有感情,有事没事就写文章表扬咱们两句,算是一滴不折不扣的中国蜜。早在2010年11月,这哥们就在《华尔街日报》写了一篇文章,标题叫In China's Orbit,霸气得很,可译成“世界围绕中国旋转”或者“世界沿着中国轨道前行”,如果直逼一点就是——咱...
评分五味杂陈读《文明》 ——我读《文明》 文蠹鱼 这是读尼尔•弗格森的第二本书。先前的是开创性自传体,写顶级金融家西格蒙德。《文明》,又是大部头作品。说心里话,此本对于我来说,有分析上的难度。因近日曾读过袁剑的《大拐点》,不同程度上有相悖的地方。这个时候,我就...
评分图书标签: 历史 世界历史 文明史 尼尔·弗格森 History 原文 Niall Ferguson
If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe – Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland – would have seemed little better. As for fifteenth-century North America, it was an anarchic wilderness compared with the realms of the Aztecs and Incas. The idea that the West would come to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would have struck you as wildly fanciful. And yet it happened. What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six “killer applications” that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy. Civilization takes readers on their own extraordinary journey around the world – from the Grand Canal at Nanjing to the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul; from Machu Picchu in the Andes to Shark Island, Namibia; from the proud towers of Prague to the secret churches of Wenzhou. It is the story of sailboats, missiles, land deeds, vaccines, blue jeans and Chinese Bibles. It is the defining narrative of modern world history.
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评分说实话此书还是挺让我失望的,主要原因是Ferguson本人是历史学家,却总是爱写这么显浅的东西。显浅看的人虽多,但必定缺乏深度和广度,无法体现世界和历史的复杂性。这本书随便看看还是好的,某些部分还算有养分,但整体来说应该像是我写的作品的水平
评分entertainment
评分说实话此书还是挺让我失望的,主要原因是Ferguson本人是历史学家,却总是爱写这么显浅的东西。显浅看的人虽多,但必定缺乏深度和广度,无法体现世界和历史的复杂性。这本书随便看看还是好的,某些部分还算有养分,但整体来说应该像是我写的作品的水平
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