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.
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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【http://blog.sina.com.cn/leiwon】麵對拉塞勒斯之問——“歐洲人為何能如此強大?他們為什麼能如此輕易地踏足於非洲和亞洲,進行貿易或徵服?亞洲人和非洲人為什麼不能入侵他們的海岸綫,在他們的港口設立殖民地,將法令加諸他們的王室?”——作者提齣瞭六個因素,並認為這...
評分尼爾•弗格森對中國人民很有感情,有事沒事就寫文章錶揚咱們兩句,算是一滴不摺不扣的中國蜜。早在2010年11月,這哥們就在《華爾街日報》寫瞭一篇文章,標題叫In China's Orbit,霸氣得很,可譯成“世界圍繞中國鏇轉”或者“世界沿著中國軌道前行”,如果直逼一點就是——咱...
評分五味雜陳讀《文明》 ——我讀《文明》 文蠹魚 這是讀尼爾•弗格森的第二本書。先前的是開創性自傳體,寫頂級金融傢西格濛德。《文明》,又是大部頭作品。說心裏話,此本對於我來說,有分析上的難度。因近日曾讀過袁劍的《大拐點》,不同程度上有相悖的地方。這個時候,我就...
評分因為是土摩托推薦的,纔去找來看看 當時吸引我的是殺手級應用, 看瞭書以後,真的是這樣嗎? 6個都是殺手級應用就讓東西方文明主導位置發生瞭質變? 以500年時間為軸,您總可以找齣3個5個10個的? 人的基因演變這麼復雜,人類社會。文明就用這麼6個關鍵詞說清楚? 就算找齣關鍵...
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評分Blikist掃過。不算新鮮的六大元素主導瞭西方這幾個世紀來的主導地位:競爭精神(地緣政治導緻的日常戰火催生裝備升級&資本主義)、科學實證原則(read bible on your own led a rise in literacy&printing)、representative gov based on property rights&rule of law,當代醫學、消費主義、清教徒思想:work hard&save money. 沒有特彆新鮮的概念,有幾條感覺是為瞭湊字數,比如當代醫學完全可以歸入科學中去。其實核心就是地緣政治和第三條,然而這恰恰是華人文化無法照搬的。
評分最適閤早餐桌上,馬桶坐上閱讀。奇聞異事很多,真知灼見就馬馬虎虎瞭。
評分結構獨特,史實詳盡,讀瞭人會變聰明。
評分在Ferguson的言下之意裏,中國已經具備瞭競爭、科技、現代醫學、工作倫理、財産權、消費社會全部六個西方文明領先的特質,在工作倫理方麵已然超過許多發達國傢,唯一所見的對與當代中國的擔憂在於政治上的非競爭性。看多中國並以此激勵西方並批評奧巴馬,實在與中國右派共知如齣一轍
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