Jared Diamond, a noted polymath, is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among his many awards are the U.S. National Medal of Science, Japan’s Cosmos Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of the international best-selling books Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, Why Is Sex Fun?, The World until Yesterday, and The Third Chimpanzee, and is the presenter of TV documentary series based on three of those books.
In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change — a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.
In a dazzling comparative study, Diamond shows us how seven countries have survived defining upheavals in the recent past — from US Commodore Perry’s arrival in Japan to the Soviet invasion of Finland to Pinochet’s regime in Chile — through a process of painful self-appraisal and adaptation, and he identifies patterns in the way that these distinct nations recovered from calamity. Looking ahead to the future, he investigates whether the United States, and the world, are squandering their natural advantages, on a path towards political conflict and decline. Or can we still learn from the lessons of the past?
Adding a psychological dimension to the awe-inspiring grasp of history, geography, economics, and anthropology that marks all Diamond’s work, Upheaval reveals how both nations and individuals can become more resilient. The result is a book that is epic, urgent, and groundbreaking.
##《剧变》是我读过的Jared Diamond教授的第四本书。相比盛名在外的《枪炮,细菌与钢铁》《第三种黑猩猩》《崩溃》阅读过程中给我带来过的因全新的世界观而开辟眼界的心潮澎湃感(我尤其推荐他对于欧亚-美洲文明发展禀赋的比较研究框架,原始印欧语(PIE)的溯源地如何确认的转述...
评分 评分##国家危机的状况解释和背景分析等都很不错,可作者一心想要把归纳总结历史事件当作社会科学来做定量分析这点难以接受,还一直说数据找变量,作为生理学家的基本素养呢?不过作者估计也不是正统的搞科学的,不然也不会写这么多文化相关的书。
评分 评分 评分本文首发于[界面文化] 对于中国的历史爱好者来说,贾雷德·戴蒙德(Jared Diamond)是一个如雷贯耳的名字。这位加州大学洛杉矶分校地理学系教授用普利策奖获奖作品《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》(1997年)向我们展示了地理在全球历史走向中发挥的重要作用:他认为,与非洲和美洲不同的...
评分 评分##Very insightful book. Jared老爷子的书真的是没话说,希望每个对现代史感兴趣的人都读一读。前半部分扫盲,后半部分从新的角度分析国际问题,其中美中比较很有意思,关于展望世界的部分有些cliche,but still a great book in general! 另外,虽然老爷子在后记中提到自己数据和样本的稀缺性,但整本书很多问题的解释都是“according my friend”,难免让人觉得难以信服(但人家毕竟是Jared Diamond,他的朋友的可信度肯定是很大的…)唉,我要是在这个年龄也能看过世界变迁,往来无白丁,也算不枉走一遭了~
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