[lit-ideas] Ian Morris
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 22:56:23 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 8/4/2013 11:38:40 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
"Ian Morris is a Professor in Classics and History at Stanford University.
Samuel P. Huntington (died in 2008) was, and Francis Fukuyama is a
Political Scientist. I am probably treating Morris unfairly at this point and
should have read further before saying anything about his book."
Thanks for the input.
More about Morris from wiki, for the record.
Below.
Cheers,
Speranza
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We read in Wikipedia of Ian Matthew Morris that he "grew up in the United
Kingdom." "Morris is currently a Willard Professor of Classics and Professor
of History at Stanford University."
"Since joining Stanford, Morris has served as Associate Dean of Humanities
and Sciences, Chair of the Classics Department, and Director of the Social
Science History Institute. He was one of the founders of the Stanford
Archaeology Center and has served two terms as its director."
"Morris attended Alleyne's comprehensive school in Stone, Staffordshire,
and studied ancient history and archaeology at Birmingham University. He
gained his PhD at Cambridge University .[1] From 1987 through 1995 he taught
at the University of Chicago."
"Between 2000 and 2007 he directed Stanford University’s excavation at
Monte Polizzo, Sicily."
"Ian Morris has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,[3]
National Endowment for the Humanities.,[2] Center for Hellenic Studies in
Washington, D.C.[4] and Institute for Research in the Humanities,
University of Wisconsin-Madison.[4]""
"Professor Morris has published extensively on the history and archaeology
of the ancient Mediterranean and on world history and in 2011 was awarded
an honorary degree by De Pauw University."
"His 2010 book, Why the West Rules--For Now, compares East and West across
the last 15,000 years, arguing that physical geography rather than culture,
religion, politics, genetics, or great men explains Western domination of
the globe. The Economist has called it "an important book—one that
challenges, stimulates and entertains. Anyone who does not believe there are
lessons to be learned from history should start here.""
"The book has been criticized by the Canadian historical sociologist
Ricardo Duchesne for offering a diffuse definition of the West which Morris
envisions encompassing not only Europe but all civilizations descending from
the
Fertile Crescent, including Islam, and a propensity to level out
fundamental differences between the development of the West, which ushered in
modernity, and the rest: "To Morris ... the West is simply a geographical
category; the ultimate origins of the West’s primacy are to be found in
geographical factors".[6] Morris replied, saying that "despite his review’s
length,
rather little of it takes on my book’s central thesis", and defending his
focus on China."
"Why the West Rules--For Now won the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award for
Creative Nonfiction."
Publications
Burial and Ancient Society, Cambridge, 1987 ISBN 978-0-521-38738-5
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge 1992;
Greek translation, 1997 ISBN 978-0-521-37611-2
Editor, Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies,
Cambridge, 1994 ISBN 978-0-521-45678-4
Co-editor, with Barry Powell, A New Companion to Homer, E. J. Brill, 1997
ISBN 978-90-04-09989-0
Co-editor, with Kurt Raaflaub, Democracy 2500? Questions and Challenges,
Kendall-Hunt, 1997 ISBN 978-0-7872-4466-8
Archaeology as Cultural History, Blackwell, 2000 ISBN 978-0-631-19602-0
The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society, with Barry Powell;
Prentice-Hall, 1st ed. 2005, 2nd ed. 2009 ISBN 978-0-13-921156-0
Co-editor, with Joe Manning, The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models,
Stanford, 2005 ISBN 978-0-8047-5755-3
Co-editor, with Walter Scheidel and Richard Saller, The Cambridge Economic
History of the Greco-Roman World, Cambridge, 2007 ISBN 978-0-521-78053-7
Co-editor, with Walter Scheidel, of The Dynamics of Ancient Empires,
Oxford, 2009 ISBN 978-0-19-537158-1
Why the West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History, and What they
Reveal About the Future, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010; Profile, 2010 ISBN
978-0-374-29002-3
The Measure of Civilisation: How Social Development Decides the Fate of
Nations, Princeton University Press, 2013 ISBN 978-0-691-15568-5
References
1.^ a b Ian Morris, Stanford History Department.
2.^ a b c Classics and History Expert - Ian Morris, Stanford University.
3.^ Ian Morris, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
4.^ a b Faculty win Guggenheims for 'exceptional' scholarship: 4/02,
Stanford University.
5.^ Global power: On top of the world. The Economist.
6.^ Ricardo Duchesne: Review in Reviews in History from Institute of
Historical Research
7.^ http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1091/response
8.^ http://penusa.org/2011-literary-awards-festival-winners
Portal icon History portal
Classics and History Expert - Ian Morris, Stanford University Humanities
Department.
Why the West Rules for Now, Interview with Ian Morris in
_www.theglobaldispatches.com_ (http://www.theglobaldispatches.com) .
Ian Morris interview on "Conversations With History," a UC Berkeley
podcast and video series.
' Foreign Policy magazine review of Why the West Rules.
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