Civilization

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World and The Ascent of Money. He writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. He has written and presented five highly successful television document series for Channel Four: Empire, American Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money and, most recently, Civilization.

出版者:Penguin Press

作者:Niall Ferguson

页数:432

出版时间:2011-11-1

价格:GBP 25.11

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781594203053

图书标签:历史文化Civilization西方社会学Niall_FergusonHistoryNiallFerguson

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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.

读后感

【http://blog.sina.com.cn/leiwon】面对拉塞勒斯之问——“欧洲人为何能如此强大？他们为什么能如此轻易地踏足于非洲和亚洲，进行贸易或征服？亚洲人和非洲人为什么不能入侵他们的海岸线，在他们的港口设立殖民地，将法令加诸他们的王室？”——作者提出了六个因素，并认为这...  

1500年之后，基督教文明开始走向兴盛，印度的莫卧儿帝国，中华帝国，奥斯曼帝国开始衰落。最终基督教文明战胜地球上所有的文明，正如马云在一次演讲中说，美国的强大是基于基督教文明下的法律体系。近一百多年，所有的文明都在向基督教文明学习。 中华帝国为什么在明代迅速衰弱...  

关于西方社会的崛起，有3本书值得一看 第一本是《钢铁、细菌和枪炮》，必读的一本。 第二本《国富国穷》台湾译本，原名叫做the wealth of nations 第三本是本书。 Niall Ferguson认为当下全球2大问题是西方大国主宰世界和亚洲的崛起。 作者认为西方国家的崛起其原因有6点：Scie...  

关于西方社会的崛起，有3本书值得一看 第一本是《钢铁、细菌和枪炮》，必读的一本。 第二本《国富国穷》台湾译本，原名叫做the wealth of nations 第三本是本书。 Niall Ferguson认为当下全球2大问题是西方大国主宰世界和亚洲的崛起。 作者认为西方国家的崛起其原因有6点：Scie...  

用户评价

在Ferguson的言下之意里，中国已经具备了竞争、科技、现代医学、工作伦理、财产权、消费社会全部六个西方文明领先的特质，在工作伦理方面已然超过许多发达国家，唯一所见的对与当代中国的担忧在于政治上的非竞争性。看多中国并以此激励西方并批评奥巴马，实在与中国右派共知如出一辙

结构独特，史实详尽，读了人会变聪明。

Christianity那段还挺神奇的。。。

历史分析方法值得借鉴，但是对于中国的分析和西方文明的崛起总结过于程式化。

尼尔·弗格森老师牛逼。但是副标题还是泛了，不是"The West and the Rest"，而应该是"The Anglo-Saxons and the Rest"。弗格森老师自己念自己的书，些微的苏格兰口音还是很萌的。