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Bernard Lewis 出版社: Oxford University Press 副标题: Approaches to the Modern History of the Middle East 出版年: 2001-12-31 页数: 192 定价: GBP 23.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780195144208
Why did the most advanced civilization in the world lose its power and fall under the domination of others? This book examines how Middle Easterners responded to Western challenges in war, technology, sciences, religion, gender relations and other areas between the 18th and 20th centuries. It reviews the different ways in which the question of what went wrong has been formulate...
Why did the most advanced civilization in the world lose its power and fall under the domination of others? This book examines how Middle Easterners responded to Western challenges in war, technology, sciences, religion, gender relations and other areas between the 18th and 20th centuries. It reviews the different ways in which the question of what went wrong has been formulated, the various diagnoses of what ails the Middle East, and the prescriptions for its cure.
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In the areas that they ruled, the British and the French created constitutional and parliamentary regimes in their own images -- British-style constitutional monarchies and French-style republics. None of them worked very well, and with independence, almost all of them were discredited and overthrown. In the Russian Empire, revolution and civil war for a while loosened the control of the central government over its imperial territories. But the Soviets succeeded in restoring it with greater authority than ever before, and were much more successful than either the British or the French in establishing Soviet republics in their own image in the Muslim lands that they ruled. (查看原文)
The difference between Middle Eastern and Western economic approaches can be seen even in their distinctive forms of corruption, from which neither society is exempt. In the West, one makes money in the market, and uses it to buy or influence power. In the East, one seizes power, and uses it to make money. Morally there is no difference between the two, but their impact on the economy and on the polity is very different. (查看原文)
Solid materials on the history of Islamic development in the Middle East after the nineteenth century, when the West achieved dominance over the rest of the world. Kudos to Lewis for writing elegantly on the responses in political, military, cultural, and s...
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0 有用 莫笑浮生不得闲 2021-12-09 16:13:19
Lewis全书回顾了伊斯兰面对西方的反应（国人能立刻联想到近代中国类似的回应），器物到制度再到思想，伊斯兰近代确实很多地方和西方都格格不入。但最后Lewis也没给明确的回答，但认为中东不能总是抱怨他人，但可以看出Lewis还是偏向于在伊斯兰内部寻找原因。 不同一般认为Lewis反伊斯兰教的态度。相反，本书中Lewis多次强调了中世纪伊斯兰教一直比先前文明，同代文明（基督教）和多数后来的伊斯兰教政权... Lewis全书回顾了伊斯兰面对西方的反应（国人能立刻联想到近代中国类似的回应），器物到制度再到思想，伊斯兰近代确实很多地方和西方都格格不入。但最后Lewis也没给明确的回答，但认为中东不能总是抱怨他人，但可以看出Lewis还是偏向于在伊斯兰内部寻找原因。 不同一般认为Lewis反伊斯兰教的态度。相反，本书中Lewis多次强调了中世纪伊斯兰教一直比先前文明，同代文明（基督教）和多数后来的伊斯兰教政权都文明，都先进。认为宗教本身出了问题并不能回答这个问题。 而永恒的问题今天还在，哪里出了问题？这需要中东人民自己去解决。 (展开)
0 有用 莫笑浮生不得闲 2021-12-09 16:13:19
Lewis全书回顾了伊斯兰面对西方的反应（国人能立刻联想到近代中国类似的回应），器物到制度再到思想，伊斯兰近代确实很多地方和西方都格格不入。但最后Lewis也没给明确的回答，但认为中东不能总是抱怨他人，但可以看出Lewis还是偏向于在伊斯兰内部寻找原因。 不同一般认为Lewis反伊斯兰教的态度。相反，本书中Lewis多次强调了中世纪伊斯兰教一直比先前文明，同代文明（基督教）和多数后来的伊斯兰教政权... Lewis全书回顾了伊斯兰面对西方的反应（国人能立刻联想到近代中国类似的回应），器物到制度再到思想，伊斯兰近代确实很多地方和西方都格格不入。但最后Lewis也没给明确的回答，但认为中东不能总是抱怨他人，但可以看出Lewis还是偏向于在伊斯兰内部寻找原因。 不同一般认为Lewis反伊斯兰教的态度。相反，本书中Lewis多次强调了中世纪伊斯兰教一直比先前文明，同代文明（基督教）和多数后来的伊斯兰教政权都文明，都先进。认为宗教本身出了问题并不能回答这个问题。 而永恒的问题今天还在，哪里出了问题？这需要中东人民自己去解决。 (展开)