世界简史

出版时间：2011-5  出版社：中央编译出版社  作者：威尔斯  页数：434  

内容概要

《世界简史(英文版)》的作者H.G.威尔斯精力过人，一生创作的作品逾百部，早年曾以《时间机器》、《隐身人》等一批现代科幻小说名噪文坛。1920年，威尔斯又写出近100万言、里程碑式的历史巨著《世界史纲》，旨在“向具有一般智力的人展示，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小可避免的”。《世界简史》便是这部煌煌人作的简明读本。威尔斯比同时代的许多著作更早地摆脱了民族主义乃至欧洲中心论的褊狭，他关注的是整个人类文明的遗产，包括文化、思想、宗教、艺术等，这是人类历史进程中真正有价值的东西。威尔斯文采飞扬，他还将达尔文进化论的观念引入历史研究领域，形成融通东西、纵观古今的宏大构思，因而，《世界简史(英文版)》自问世以来一直是青年人学习英语、增益历史知识的典范读本。

作者简介

H.G.威尔斯（Herbert George Wells
1866-1946），英国著名作家、奇人，一生著作等身，经历奇绝，尤以科幻小说和通俗历史读物的创作获得世界性声誉和影响。1895年，威尔斯出版《时间机器》，一举而成名，此后接连推出《莫洛博士岛》、《隐身人》、《星际战争》等书，为20世纪科幻小说的创作立一高标。据说，二战期间，爱因斯坦等科学家提醒罗斯福总统起动生产原子弹的曼哈顿计划，当初也是源自威尔斯的一部叫做《获得自由的世界》的科幻小说。
威尔斯的另一重要成就便是通过《世界史纲》、《世界简史》等历史读物的创作冲破长久以来史学界以西方文明为中心的狭隘观念，通览世界各民族所创造的优秀文化遗产，为20世纪的学术界确立了大历史观.

书籍目录

I. THE WORLD IN SPACE
II. THE WORLD IN TIME
III. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE
IV. THE AGE OF FISHES
V. THE AGE OF THE COAL SWAMPS
VI. THE AGE OF REPTILES
VII. THE FIRST BIRDS AND THE FIRST MAMMALS
VIII. THE AGE OF MAMMALS
IX. MONKEYS, APES AND SUB-MEN
X. THE NEANDERTHALER AND THE RHODESIAN MAN
XI. THE FIRST TRUE MEN
XII. PRIMITIVE THOUGHT
XIII. THE BEGINNINGS OF CULTIVATION
XIV. PRIMITIVE NEOLITHIC CIVILIZATIONS
XV. SUMERIA, EARLY EGYPT AND WRITING
XVI. PRIMITIVE NOMADIC PEOPLES
XVII. THE FIRST SEA-GOING PEOPLES
XVIII. EGYPT, BABYLON AND ASSYRIA
XIX. THE PRIMITIVE ARYANS
XX. THE LAST BABYLONIAN EMPIRE AND THE EMPIRE OF DARIUS I
XXI. THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE JEWS
XXII. PRIESTS AND PROPHETS IN JUDEA
XXIII. THE GREEKS
XXIV. THE WARS OF THE GREEKS AND PERSIANS
XXV. THE SPLENDOUR OF GREECE
XXVI. THE EMPIRE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
XXVII. THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY AT ALEXANDRIA
XXVIII. THE LIFE OF GAUTAMA BUDDHA
XXIX. KING ASOKA
XXX. CONFUCIUS AND LAO TSE
XXXI. ROME COMES INTO HISTORY
XXXII. ROME AND CARTHAGE
XXXIII. THE GROWTH OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
XXXIV. BETWEEN ROME AND CHINA
XXXV. THE COMMON MAN'S LIFE UNDER THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
XXXVI. RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENTS UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE
XXXVII. THE TEACHING OF JESUS
XXXVIII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINAL CHRISTIANITY
XXXIX. THE BARBARIANS BREAK THE EMPIRE INTO EAST AND WEST
XL. THE HUNS AND THE END OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE
XLI. THE BYZANTINE AND SASSANID EMPIRES
XLII. THE DYNASTIES OF SUY AND
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章节摘录

版权页：插图：THE LAND during this Age of Fishes was apparently quite lifeless.Crags and uplands of barren rock lay under the sun and rain. Therewas no real soft——for as yet there were no earthworms which help to make asoil, and no plants to break up the rock particles into mould; there was no traceof moss or lichen. Life was still only in the sea.Over this world of barren rock played great changes of climate. The causesof these changes of climate were very complex and they have still to be properlyestimated. The changing shape of the earth's orbit, the gradual shifting of thepoles of rotation, changes in the shapes of the continents, probably evenfluctuations in the warmth of the sun, now conspired to plunge great areas ofthe earth's surface into long periods of cold and ice and now again for millionsof years spread a warm or equable climate over this planet. There seem to havebeen phases of great internal activity in the world's history, when in the courseof a few million years accumulated upthrusts would break out in lines of volcaniceruption and upheaval and rearrange the mountain and continental outlines ofthe globe, increasing the depth of the sea and the height of the mountains andexaggerating the extremes of climate. And these would be followed by vastages of comparative quiescence, when frost, rain and river would wear downthe mountain heights and carry great masses of silt to fill and raise the seabottoms and spread the seas, ever shallower and wider, over more and more ofthe land. There have been "high and deep" ages in the world's history and "lowand lever' ages. The reader must dismiss from his mind any idea that the surfaceof the earth has been growing steadily cooler since its crust grew solid.

编辑推荐

《世界简史(英文版)》：THIS SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD is meant tobe read straightforwardly almost as a novel is read. Itgives in the most general way an account of ourpresent knowledge of history, shorn of elaborationsand complications. It has been amply illustrated and everything hasbeen done to make it vivid and clear. From it the reader should be ableto get that general view of history which is so necessary a frameworkfor the study of a particular period or the history of a particular country.It may be found useful as a preparatory excursion before the reading ofthe author's much fuller and more explicit Outline of History, isundertaken. But its especial end is to meet the needs of the busy generalreader, too driven to study the maps and time charts of that Outline indetail, who wishes to refresh and repair his faded or fragmentaryconceptions of the great adventure of mankind. It is not an abstract orcondensation of that former work. Within its aim the Outline admits ofno further condensation. This is a much more generalized History,planned and written afresh.WELLS'S two-volume Outline of History',published in 1920, was the first generalhistory constructed on an evolutionary,sociological and anthropological basis. It wasimmensely popular and set the basis for thisShort History, which Wells created to meetthe needs of the busy general reader, toodriven to study the maps and time charts ofthat Outline in detail, who wishes to refreshand repair his faded or fragmentaryconceptions of the great adventure ofmankind.

用户评论 (总计17条)

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•   房龙的系列读物都很经典
•   全英文而且简约，印刷不错，唯一缺点就是上个世纪初的人写的
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•   坚持才有提高。
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