世界簡史

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《世界簡史(英文版)》的作者H.G.威爾斯精力過人，一生創(chuàng)作的作品逾百部，早年曾以《時間機(jī)器》、《隱身人》等一批現(xiàn)代科幻小說名噪文壇。1920年，威爾斯又寫出近100萬言、里程碑式的歷史巨著《世界史綱》，旨在“向具有一般智力的人展示，如果文明要想延續(xù)下去，政治、社會和經(jīng)濟(jì)組織發(fā)展成為世界性聯(lián)盟是小可避免的”。《世界簡史》便是這部煌煌人作的簡明讀本。威爾斯比同時代的許多著作更早地擺脫了民族主義乃至歐洲中心論的褊狹，他關(guān)注的是整個人類文明的遺產(chǎn)，包括文化、思想、宗教、藝術(shù)等，這是人類歷史進(jìn)程中真正有價值的東西。威爾斯文采飛揚(yáng)，他還將達(dá)爾文進(jìn)化論的觀念引入歷史研究領(lǐng)域，形成融通東西、縱觀古今的宏大構(gòu)思，因而，《世界簡史(英文版)》自問世以來一直是青年人學(xué)習(xí)英語、增益歷史知識的典范讀本。

作者簡介

H.G.威爾斯（Herbert George Wells
1866-1946），英國著名作家、奇人，一生著作等身，經(jīng)歷奇絕，尤以科幻小說和通俗歷史讀物的創(chuàng)作獲得世界性聲譽(yù)和影響。1895年，威爾斯出版《時間機(jī)器》，一舉而成名，此后接連推出《莫洛博士島》、《隱身人》、《星際戰(zhàn)爭》等書，為20世紀(jì)科幻小說的創(chuàng)作立一高標(biāo)。據(jù)說，二戰(zhàn)期間，愛因斯坦等科學(xué)家提醒羅斯福總統(tǒng)起動生產(chǎn)原子彈的曼哈頓計(jì)劃，當(dāng)初也是源自威爾斯的一部叫做《獲得自由的世界》的科幻小說。
威爾斯的另一重要成就便是通過《世界史綱》、《世界簡史》等歷史讀物的創(chuàng)作沖破長久以來史學(xué)界以西方文明為中心的狹隘觀念，通覽世界各民族所創(chuàng)造的優(yōu)秀文化遺產(chǎn)，為20世紀(jì)的學(xué)術(shù)界確立了大歷史觀.

書籍目錄

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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章節(jié)摘錄

版權(quán)頁：插圖：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.

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《世界簡史(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.

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