出版时间:2010-9-1 出版社:世界图书出版公司 作者:赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯,H.G. Wells 页数:795
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《历史的概要》又译为《世界史纲》,是威尔斯写给历史爱好者的简明读本,以开阔的视野、轻快简洁的笔调将自生命起源以来的生物及人类历史,有条不紊地展现在读者面前。本书的意图在于“以平直的方式,向普通人展示,如果文明要想延续下去,政治、社会和经济组织发展成为世界性联盟是何以不可避免的”。而其一个主题就是要说明,世界只有通过教育而不是战争和革命才能得以拯救。
作者简介
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯,英国著名小说家,尤以科幻小说创作闻名于世。1895年出版《时间机器》一举成名,随后又发表了《莫洛博士岛》《隐身人》《星际战争》等多部科幻小说。
书籍目录
INTRODUCTION1. THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME2. THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS3. NATURAL SELECTION AND THE CHANGES OF SPECIES4. THE INVASION OF THE DRY LAND BY LIFE5. THE AGE OF REPTILES6. THE AGE OF MAMMALS7. THE ANCESTRY OF MAN8. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE9. THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PALAEOLITHIC MEN, THE FIRST TRUE MEN10. NEOLITHIC MAN IN EUROPE11. EARLY THOUGHT12. THE RACES OF MANKIND13. THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND14. THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS15. SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES16. WRITING17. GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS18. SERFS, SLAVES, SOCIAL CLASSES, AND FREE INDIVIDUALS19. THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS20. THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES21. THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS22. GREEK THOUGHT IN RELATION TO HUMAN SOCIETY23. THE CAREER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT24. SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA25. THE RISE AND SPREAD OF BUDDHISM26. THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS27. FROM TIBERIUS GRACCHUS TO THE GOD-EMPEROR IN ROME28. THE CAESARS BETWEEN THE SEAAND THE GREAT PLAINS OF THE OLD WORLD29. THE BEGINNINGS, THE RISE, AND THE DMSIONS OF CHRISTIANITY30. SEVEN CENTURIES IN ASIA31. MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM32. CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES33. THE GREAT EMPIRE OF JENGIS KHAN AND HIS SUCCESSORS34. THE RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION35. PRINCES, PARLIAMENTS, AND POWERS36. THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE37. THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE38. THE REALITIES AND IMAGINATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY39. THE INTERNATIONAL CATASTROPHE OF 191440. THE NEXT STAGE OF HISTORYCHRONOLOGICALTABLE
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Were there mammals in the Mesozoic period? This is a question not yet to be answered precisely. Patiently and steadily thegeologists gather fresh evidence and reason out completer conclusions. At anytime some new deposit may reveal fossils that will illuminate this question.Certainly either mammals, or the ancestors of the mammals, must have livedthroughout the Mesozoic period. In the very opening chapter of the Mesozoicvolume of the Record there were those Theriomorphous Reptiles to which wehave already alluded, and in the later Mesozoic a number of small jawbones arefound, entirely mammalian in character. But there is not a scrap, not a bone, tosuggest that there lived any Mesozoic Mammal which could look a dinosaur inthe face. The Mesozoic mammals or mammal-like reptiles - for we do not knowclearly which they were - seem to have been all obscure little beasts of the sizeof mice and rats, more like a down-trodden order of reptiles than a distinct class;probably they Still laid eggs and were developing only slowly their distinctivecovering of hair. They lived away from big waters, and perhaps in the desolateuplands, as marmots do now; probably they lived there beyond the pursuit of thecarnivorous dinosaurs. Some perhaps went on all fours, some chiefly went ontheir hind-legs and clambered with their fore limbs. They became fossils only sooccasionally that chance has not yet revealed a single complete skeleton in thewhole vast record of the Mesozoic rocks by which to check these Ruesses.
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