《The Rise of the West》是University Of Chicago Press出版的圖書，作者是William H. McNeill
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780226561417
- 作者：William H. McNeill
- 出版社：University Of Chicago Press
- 出版時間：1992年1月1日
- 頁數：860
- 定價：USD 32.50
- 裝幀：Paperback
內容簡介
"The Rise of the West," winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that fr...(展開全部) "The Rise of the West," winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim.In a retrospective essay titled ""The Rise of the West" after Twenty-five Years," McNeill shows how his book was shaped by the time and place in which it was written (1954-63). He discusses how historiography subsequently developed and suggests how his portrait of the world's past in The Rise of the West should be revised to reflect these changes."This is not only the most learned and the most intelligent, it is also the most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind. . . . To read it is a great experience. It leaves echoes to reverberate, and seeds to germinate in the mind."--H. R. Trevor-Roper, "New York Times Book Review " 威葛艱廉·麥克尼爾騙榆禁鴉良船（William H. McNeill，1917—備協巴） 當世最著名詢海棗員的歷史學家之一、全球史研究奠基人、世淚連拔辯界只紋蒸歷史學科的“現代開創者”。 芝加哥大學榮譽退休教授，曾擔任美國歷史學會主席、美國世界史學會主席。在全球史方面的研究卓然有成，德高望重，與斯賓格勒、湯因比齊名，被譽為“20世紀對歷史進行世界性解釋的巨人”，開闢了一個西方世界史學的新時代。 1963年，他以一部《西方的興起：人類共同體史》一舉成名，並因此獲得美國國家圖書獎。在長達六十餘年的學術生涯中，麥克尼爾筆耕不輟，
