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《西方文明史(第5版)》囊括瞭曆史地理、政治製度、經濟樣式、地區衝突與戰爭、宗教、思想觀念、文化藝術、社會生活等諸多的內容,讓讀者對西方文明史的整體輪廓與豐厚積澱有瞭一個比較清晰的認識。
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內容簡介
《西方文明史》既緊緊把握瞭政治發展的綫索,同時又兼顧瞭經濟、文化等諸多領域,並運用“新史學”的方法,將底層大眾的日常社會生活也囊括其中,力求多層次、多角度地揭示西方文明起源、發展、演進、更新的漫長曆程和整體圖景。在敘述和闡釋西方文明曆史的過程中,作者將大多數精力“一直聚焦在拓展齣一種對西方文明的可靠的和易讀的敘述上”,而並非要將之寫成“一部百科全書”。因此,凡是與這一學術主旨不相關的龐雜內容一概不予敘述,而那些被長期忽略瞭的“普通男女的曆史”則被納入到敘事之中。此外,作者還從文明的“親緣”關係齣發,將斯拉夫文明作為西方文明的組成部分而不是邊緣地帶來加以敘述。正是基於這樣的新理念,該書囊括瞭曆史地理、政治製度、經濟樣式、地區衝突與戰爭、宗教、思想觀念、文化藝術、社會生活等諸多的內容,讓讀者對西方文明史的整體輪廓與豐厚積澱有瞭一個比較清晰的認識。
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目錄
Detailed Contents
Preface
Supplements
About the Authors
INTRODUCTION: The Idea of Western Civilization
Chapter 1 The First Civilizations
Chapter 2 Early Greece,2500-500 B.C.E.
Chapter 3 Classical and Hellenistic Greece,500-100 B.C.E.
Chapter 4 Eady Rome and the Roman Republic,800-146 B.C.E.
Chapter 5 Imperial Rome,146 B.C.E.-192 C.E.
Chapter 6 The Transformation of the Classical World,192-500
Chapter 7 The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam
Chapter 8 The West in the Early Middle Ages,500-900
Chapter 9 The High Middle Ages,900-1300
Chapter 10 The Later Middle Ages,1300-1500
Chapter 11 The Italian Renaissance
Chapter 12 The European Empires
Chapter 13 The Reform of Religion
Chapter 14 Europeat War,I555-I648
Chapter 15 The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe,1500-1650
Chapter 16 The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 17 Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe
Chapter 18 The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Chapter 19 Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Chapter 20 The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era,1789-1815
Chapter 21 Industrial Europe
Chapter 22 Political Upheavals and Social Transformations,1815-1850
Chapter 23 State Building and Social Change in Europe,1850-1871
Chapter 24 The Crisis ofEuropean Culture,1871-1914
Chapter 25 Europe and the World,1870-1914
Chapter 26 War and Revolution,1914-1920
Chapter 27 The European Search for Stability,1920-1939
Chapter 28 Global Conflagration: Wodd War Ⅱ,/939-1945
Chapter 29 The Cold War and Postwar Economic Recovery,1945-1970
Chapter 30 The End of the Cold War and New Global Challenges,1970 to the Present
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精彩書摘
The West is an idea.It is not visible from space.An astro-naut viewing the blue——and·-white terrestrial sphere can make out the forms of Africa,bounded by the Atlantic,the Indian Ocean,the Red Sea,and the Mediterranean.Australia,the Americas,and even Antarctica are distinct patches of blue-green in the darker waters that surround them.But nothing comparable separates Asia from Europe,East from West.Viewed from 100 miles up,the West itself is invisible.Although astronauts can see the great Eurasian landmass curving around the Northern Hemisphere,the Ural Mountainsmthe theoretical boundary between East and West——appear faint from space.Certainly they are less impressive than the towering Himalayas,the Alps,or even the Caucasus.People,not geology,determined that the Urals should be the arbitrary boundary between Europe and Asia. Even this determination took centuries.Originally,Europe was a name that referred only to central Greece.Gradually,Greeks extended it to include the whole Greek mainland and then the landmass to the north.Later,Roman explorers and soldiers carried Europe north and west to its modern bound-aries.Asia too grew with time.Initially,Asia was only that small portion of what is today Turkey inland from the Aegean Sea.Gradually,as Greek explorers came to know of lands far-ther east,north,and south,they expanded their understand。ing of Asia to include everything east of the Don River to the north and ofthe Red Sea to the south. Western civilization is as much an idea as the West itsel Under the right conditions,astronauts can see the Great Wall of China snaking its way from the edge of the Himalayas to the Yellow Sea.No comparable physical legacy ofthe West is so mas-sire that its details can be discerned from space.Nor are Western achievements rooted forever in one corner of the world.Ⅵ1at we call Western civilization belongs to no particular place.Its lo.cation has changed since the origins of civilization,that is,the cultural and social traditions characteristic of the civitas,or city.Western”cities appeared first outside the”West),in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins in present-day Iraq and Iran,a region山at we today call the Middle East.These areas have never losttheir urban traditions,but in time,other cities in North Africa,Greece,and Italy adapted and expanded this heritage. Until the sixteenth century c…E the western end of the Eurasian landmass was the crucible in which disparate cul.tural and intellectual traditions of the Near East.the Mediterranean,and northern and western Europe were smelted into a new and powerful alloy.Then“the West”ex-panded by establishing colonies overseas and by giving rise tothe“settler societies”of the Americas,Australia and NewZealand,and South Africa.Western technology for harnessing nature,Westerh formsof economic and political organization,Western styles of artand music are for good or ill-一dominant influences inworld civilization.Japan is a leading power in the Western tra.ditions of capitalist commerce and technology.China,themost populous country in the world,adheres to Marxist so.cialist principles——a European political tradition.Millions ofpeople in Africa,Asia,and the Americas follow the religions ofIslam and Christianity,both of which developed fromJudaism in the cradle ofWestern civilization.
前言/序言
正如德國人的人文著述中充滿日爾曼民族的自豪感和優越感那樣,西方曆史學傢在撰寫他們自己的文明史時,往往會過度褒揚西方人的民族性、製度和文化。在他們的筆下,西方文明通常被看做人類文明發展的主綫和軸心,東方文明則自然成為“化外”或“非主流”。M.A.凱什嵐斯基(M。A.Kishlallsky)等人的《西方文明史》似乎突破瞭這一思想束縛和文化囹固,采用一種客觀的、聯係的和發展的觀點來追溯西方文明的曆史足跡。這在林林總總的西方文明史的著作當中,不得不說是難能可貴的瞭。
《西方文明史》(第5版) 內容概述: 《西方文明史》(第5版)是一部深入淺齣的學術著作,旨在為讀者呈現西方文明波瀾壯闊的發展曆程。本書以其嚴謹的學術態度、宏大的曆史視野和清晰的敘事結構,全麵梳理瞭西方文明自史前時代至今的演變脈絡,重點關注其關鍵節點、核心思想、文化遺産及其對當今世界的深遠影響。 本書內容涵蓋瞭從古希臘羅馬的哲學、政治、藝術,到中世紀基督教文明的興起與發展,再到文藝復興、宗教改革、啓濛運動的思想解放,直至近現代民族國傢的形成、工業革命的浪潮、兩次世界大戰的洗禮以及當今全球化時代的挑戰與機遇。作者在敘述曆史事件的同時,更注重挖掘其背後的深層動因、社會變革以及思想文化上的互動與演變。 本書的特色與亮點: 宏大的曆史敘事與精細的史實考證相結閤: 本書在展現西方文明宏大圖景的同時,不乏對具體曆史事件、重要人物、文化思潮的深入剖析。作者引證瞭大量的史料,確保瞭內容的準確性和學術深度。 強調文明的連續性與內在邏輯: 本書不僅僅是曆史事件的堆砌,更著力於揭示西方文明內部不同時期、不同領域之間的聯係和演變規律。從古老的傳統如何影響後來的發展,到不同思想的碰撞與融閤,本書提供瞭一個連貫而富有邏輯的曆史敘事。 關注文明的“未竟遺産”: 書名中的“The Unfinished Legacy”(未竟遺産)點明瞭本書的核心關切。作者強調,西方文明並非一個固定的、已然完成的整體,而是持續演變、不斷麵臨新的挑戰與重塑的過程。本書深入探討瞭西方文明的核心價值觀、政治製度、社會結構等在當今世界所扮演的角色,以及其在麵對全球化、技術變革、文化多元化等新趨勢時的適應與調整。 多元視角與批判性思維: 本書鼓勵讀者以多元的視角審視西方文明,不迴避其發展過程中的矛盾、衝突和負麵影響。作者引導讀者進行批判性思考,理解曆史的復雜性,並從中汲取智慧,更好地理解當今世界。 清晰的章節結構與豐富的輔助材料: 本書結構清晰,脈絡分明,便於讀者理解和學習。每章都可能包含重要的圖錶、地圖、文獻摘錄以及思考題,有助於加深讀者對內容的理解和掌握。 對“實用禮儀”的文化根源的探索: 作為“21世紀實用禮儀係列教材”的一部分,本書在介紹西方文明史的同時,也必然會涉及西方社會在曆史發展過程中形成的各種行為規範、價值觀念和社會習俗。這些在曆史長河中沉澱下來的文化元素,構成瞭現代西方禮儀的深層根源,有助於讀者理解和掌握當代西方社會的交往規則。 本書的價值與意義: 《西方文明史》(第5版)不僅是一部嚴謹的學術著作,更是一扇理解西方世界、洞察現代社會運作機製的窗口。對於學習外語的學子而言,深入瞭解西方文明的根源和演變,能夠極大地提升跨文化理解能力,為更有效地學習和運用英語打下堅實的基礎。同時,本書也能幫助讀者建立更宏觀的曆史觀,認識到人類文明發展的多樣性與共通性,從而以更開闊的視野來理解世界和我們自身所處的時代。 無論是作為專業學習的教材,還是作為拓寬視野、深化人文素養的讀物,本書都將為讀者帶來深刻的啓迪和豐富的收獲。它將引領讀者踏上一段穿越時空的旅程,去探尋西方文明的過去、現在與未來。