Upheaval

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Jared Diamond
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Little, Brown and Company 2019-5-7 Hardcover 9780316409131

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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.

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##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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##作者准备这部书的6年间包括落笔时绝对不会预料到2020年这场突如其来的疫情,但他在书中的分析和预测,今天来看,一步步地更加接近于现实。 围绕着12个“影响国家危机结果的因素”,作者以芬兰(芬苏之战)、日本(明治维新)、德国(一战、二战)、澳大利亚(身份回归)、智利...  

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##世事愈加纷乱之际,希望通过此书,获得一些启迪。 虽然此书涉及了七个国家的危机应对历史,但我认为,他其实想要替他的国家找危机应对之策。此书倒数第三和第二章里,他大段大段地阐述和分析了当今美国所面临的重大问题。 他讨论了美国第一大问题—日益恶化的政治妥协能力,以及三个”其它”问题,包括选举过程不公正、社会经济不平等、社会流动性缺乏,最后还有两个问题,提到了但没有展开讨论:种族关系和妇女地位。 所有这些论述都有助于我们去理解,最近几天充斥各类新闻媒体的反种族主义游行示威的消息。

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