西方的兴起 上册

The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, adopts the narrative structure from ancient times to modern times, starting from the origin of human being down to the 1900th, focusing on main civilizations of such areas as the Middle East, India, China and Europe. It regards the interactions between different civilizations as its main line to delineate significant events in the entire and vivid world history; it surmounts the fences between nations and countries, deems the global history as a changing and moving entirety and classifies the human history as three stages: the era of reign of the Middle East, the era of balance of power between the Europe and Asia and the era of the rule of the west; the book, with ""Eurasia survival circle"" as the core, has the macro-panoramic overview of the blending and inheritance, rise and fall, and evolution of each civilization in this big survival circle.