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Carregando... Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future (original: 2010; edição: 2011)de Ian Morris (Autor)
Informações da ObraWhy the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future de Ian Morris (Author) (2010)
   Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) johnclaydon | Jun 2, 2022 |  This gives a nice overview of the rise and expansion of various proto-states in China, then Empires, Dynasties and the ebb and flow of history there. I am sure a China specific book would be more detailed but this overview is the best I have read up until now. I also liked the references to writers like Heinlein, Asimov, Tom Friedman and others that I have read. They were both appropriate and familiar. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in History, Economy, Archaeology or the broad sweep of civilizations. (  ) mgplavin | Oct 3, 2021 | De visie van Morris op de Divergence-kwestie is dat geografisch toeval bepalend was voor de (tijdelijke) dominantie van het Westen: omdat het als periferisch gebied in de late Middeleeuwen zijn achterstand op de veel rijkere Islamitische wereld (volgens hem toen het kerngebied van het Westen) kon goedmaken, en omdat het door de Atlantische Oceaan veel gemakkelijker toegang kreeg tot een enorm expansief gebied (de Nieuwe Wereld) met enorme rijkdommen. Ik formuleer het nu wat kort door de bocht maar volgens Morris doet al de rest er eigenlijk niet toe. Het Oosten (voor hem uitsluitend beperkt tot China) had evenzeer tot dominantie kunnen komen, maar het werd veel minder door de geografie uitgedaagd om zichzelf te overstijgen. De grote sterktes van dit werk zijn Morris’ eigen systematische aanpak, met zelfs een poging om tot een meetbare vergelijking van menselijke culturen te komen, en het toch leesbaar, verhalende karakter van deze (bijna) heel de wereld omspannende geschiedenis. Zijn grote zwaktes zijn dan weer een erg negatieve visie op wat de mensheid drijft, een betwistbare invulling van wat de begrippen ‘Oost’ en ‘West’ dekken en een geografisch determinisme dat vooral de culturele factor in de menselijke geschiedenis onderwaardeert. Voor een uitgebreide bespreking van die sterke en zwakke kanten, zie mijn review in mijn Senseofhistory-account op Goodreads, zie https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/900953925 (  ) bookomaniac | Apr 20, 2019 | I can definitely recommend this even for casual readers of history books. But why not the full five stars? Well, it's still lengthy, and the conclusion is... weird: he's been talking about hard ceilings all the time, but in his forecast he pretty much disregards the option of mankind hitting another hard ceiling. ( ) cwebb | Jun 6, 2017 | http://meganeasleywalshauthor.blogspot.ie/2015/02/writer-wednesday-why-west-rule... (  ) Megan.Easley-Walsh | Dec 9, 2016 |
 A British-born archaeologist, classicist and historian now at Stanford University, Morris is the historians’ equivalent of those physicists who search for a still elusive unified field theory. In his new book, he sets out to discover broad patterns, “the overall ‘shape’ of history,” by sifting through the world’s long development process. Following the oscillating forces from prehistory to the present, he shows how both the East and West managed to catalyze themselves at different times and in different ways to progressively new heights of development. But his ultimate challenge is to make sense of all these cycles of rise and fall, the better to judge whether either side was in possession of any innate superiority. His answer to that question is an emphatic no. East and West, he tells us, are just “geographical labels, not value judgments.”  Morris’s attempt to tackle the history of the world, while refreshing, might be dismissed as the exercise of a 19th-century generalist fraught with 21st-century specialist perils.
Archaeologist and historian Ian Morris explains that Western dominance is largely the result of the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, however, the world over the next hundred years will subsequently change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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