A Little History of the WorldYale University Press, 1 ene 2005 - 284 páginas In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen languages across the world. Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. 'A little history of the world' presents his lively and involving history to English-language readers for the first time. Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this is a book to be savored and collected. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind’s experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements and an acute witness to its frailties. The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this account makes intelligible the full span of human history. |
Índice
ONCE UPON A TIME | 1 |
THE LAND By the Nile | 10 |
SUNDAY MONDAY | 17 |
THE ONE AND ONLY GOD | 24 |
HEROES AND THEIR WEAPONS | 31 |
AN UNEQUAL Struggle | 37 |
TWO SMALL CITIES IN ONE SMALL LAND | 44 |
THE ENLIGHTENED ONE AND HIS LAND | 51 |
CITIES AND Citizens | 156 |
A NEW AGE | 163 |
A NEW WORLD | 172 |
A NEW FAITH | 180 |
THE CHURCH AT WAR | 187 |
TERRIBLE TIMES | 193 |
AN UNLUCKY KING AND A LUCKY KING | 200 |
MEANWHILE LOOKING EASTWARDS | 206 |
A GREAT Teacher of a Great People | 57 |
NEW WARS AND NEW WARRIORS | 73 |
AN ENEMY OF HISTORY | 80 |
THE GOOD NEWS | 92 |
THE STORM | 104 |
THE STARRY NIGHT BEGINS | 110 |
A CONQUEROR WHO KNOWS HOW TO RULE | 123 |
A STRUGGLe to Become Lord of ChristenDOM | 130 |
CHIVALROUS KNIGHTS | 137 |
EMPERORS IN THE AGE OF CHIVALRY | 144 |
A TRULY NEW AGE | 213 |
A VERY VIOLENT REVOLUTION | 220 |
THE LAST CONQUEROR | 227 |
MEN AND MACHINES | 240 |
ACROSS The Seas | 248 |
TWO NEW STATES IN EUROPE | 255 |
DIVIDING UP THE WORLD | 264 |
THE SMALL Part of the HISTORY OF THE WORLD WHICH | 273 |
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