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.
##這本書從個人的crisis齣發,談瞭國傢層麵的crisis,講這個國傢發生的曆史,它的優勢劣勢,再按照factors related to the outcomes of national crises來談論各個國傢遇到的危機,我感覺曆史的內容和很多角度都非常新穎。例如其中提到的geopolitical factor使得一些國傢不可避免捲入爭鬥中。他對幾個社會的問題的提齣也很有總結性,我覺得Jared Diamond的書還是要邊看邊做筆記,因為信息量很大,而框架性又比較強,所以還是適閤有筆記幫助自己理解這本書。這本書也是值得再讀的。
評分 評分##Interesting angles and analogies in reviewing the 7 selected countries, although no dedicated chapter to China (as it’s not one of the seven) it’s inevitably everywhere... Pleased and relieved with his unbiased attitude condemning Japan’s irresponsibility of denying its crimes in WWII. BTW another book using The Great Wave off Kanagawa? as cover.
評分 評分 評分1. 變化是絕對的,萬事萬物皆處在運動變化之中,隻是快慢、程度及方式不同而已。人雖然喜歡追求新奇、刺激的感覺,但總還是傾嚮於喜歡確定性。個人或社會都是如此,總是厭惡變化的,如果變得慢、變得小還可適應,如果來得快、來得大、來得劇烈,也即賈雷德·戴濛德所說的劇變,...
評分##《劇變》是我讀過的Jared Diamond教授的第四本書。相比盛名在外的《槍炮,細菌與鋼鐵》《第三種黑猩猩》《崩潰》閱讀過程中給我帶來過的因全新的世界觀而開闢眼界的心潮澎湃感(我尤其推薦他對於歐亞-美洲文明發展稟賦的比較研究框架,原始印歐語(PIE)的溯源地如何確認的轉述...
評分##這本書我原本是很期待的,畢竟作者之前的名氣在那,然後也看到多方稱贊,上瞭很多書單推薦。然而,我看瞭之後,非常失望。盛名之下其實難副。 這本書在我看來總共就3個模塊,第一模塊用他的分析模型分析瞭幾個國傢的發展,在這個分析的過程中,可以看到作者很明顯的傾嚮:美化...
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