World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the webs that have drawn humans together in patterns of interaction and exchange, cooperatio...
World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the webs that have drawn humans together in patterns of interaction and exchange, cooperation and competition, since earliest times. Whether small or large, loose or dense, these webs have provided the medium for the movement of ideas, goods, power, and money within and across cultures, societies, and nations. From the thin, localized webs that characterized agricultural communities twelve thousand years ago, through the denser, more interactive metropolitan webs that surrounded ancient Sumer, Athens, and Timbuktu, to the electrified global web that today envelops virtually the entire world in a maelstrom of cooperation and competition, J. R. McNeill and William H. McNeill show human webs to be a key component of world history and a revealing framework of analysis. Avoiding any determinism, environmental or cultural, the McNeills give us a synthesizing picture of the big patterns of world history in a rich, open-ended, concise account.
约翰·R.麦克尼尔(John R.McNeil)是美国历史学家、作家。他以其观点“文明间的接触与交流是推动人类历史前进的动力”而著称，这一论点最初在他1963年出版的著作《西方的兴起》（The Rise of the West）中提出。他是芝加哥大学罗伯特·密立根历史学杰出服务荣休教授（Robert A. ...
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0 有用 日落西山 2010-05-20 03:02:53
床头睡前阅读:)
0 有用 sanbilly 2012-01-19 00:03:13
webs of cooperation and competition, sustained by flows of information and energy
1 有用 Kiyosumi 2016-03-24 23:02:34
极其精彩的一本书，作者对世界历史的了解和精炼能力让人印象深刻
0 有用 李兔叽 2013-04-13 17:27:50
the process of world
1 有用 KaZty 2010-05-28 08:27:20
课程用书。。。竟然没人评论过。。。