Designed for courses in World History and World Civilization, this best-selling, classic exploration of world history takes an interdisciplinary global (rather than a regional or national) approach–tracing those major forces, movements, and events that have had a world-wide impact. It stresses connections between the past, present and future, emphasizing the question “What does it mean for us today?” The Seventh Edition reevaluates the course of human history with an eye toward the millennium, reflecting in its coverage the end of the cold war and the dawning possibilities for a new type of global history. This best-selling, classic exploration of world history takes an interdisciplinary global (rather than a regional or national) approach -- tracing those major forces, movements, and events that had a world-wide impact. It stresses connections between the past, present and future and poses the question "What does it mean for us today?" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Designed for courses in World History and World Civilization, this best-selling, classic exploration of world history takes an interdisciplinary global (rather than a regional or national) approach–tracing those major forces, movements, and events that have had a world-wide impact. It stresses connections between the past, present and future, emphasizing the question “What does it mean for us today?” The Seventh Edition reevaluates the course of human history with an eye toward the millennium, reflecting in its coverage the end of the cold war and the dawning possibilities for a new type of global history. This best-selling, classic exploration of world history takes an interdisciplinary global (rather than a regional or national) approach -- tracing those major forces, movements, and events that had a world-wide impact. It stresses connections between the past, present and future and poses the question "What does it mean for us today?" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

这是一部探索人类神秘历史的记录。书中充满真实的冒险故事，令读者感到自己和书中那些人物一起出生入死，向早已湮没的远古世界索取财富：不顾众人嘲笑寻找荷马笔下的神秘城市特洛伊，打开亘古未曾开启的吐坦卡蒙墓，寻觅圣经中洪水的原始记载——美索不达米亚的古泥牌……书中重现了古巴比仑城和它的悬空花园的异彩，被死神保存了多少世纪的庞培城原貌，玛雅人弃置不顾的金字塔，以及米诺韬尔的传奇式的迷宫……作为一体具有世界影响的考古学经典之作，它将带领读者跨越时代的隔阂，去寻觅那业已湮没的人类的过去。

人类文明史发展的一个主要动力源，是不同人类群体的文明之间的交往，而林林总总的文明交往之中层次最高因而意义也最为重大的，大概就是东西文明之间的交往了。我们中国人是东方民族，我们的文明大概还是东方文明最突出的代表，故此，我们特别需要了解西方文明及其演进的历史——这种了解，不仅对我们自己的发展有利，而且将有利于整个人类的进步。 要学习西方文明史，当然就需要有一系列不同层次的教材，而对于初学者来说，最重要的就是要有一本优秀的入门读物。我们面前的这本《世界文明史》，就是为满足初学者的需要而精心挑选出来的。 作者名叫杰克逊·斯皮瓦格尔（Jackson J. Spielvogel），现为美国宾夕法利亚州立大学历史学荣退副教授。他是俄亥俄州立大学史学博士，专攻宗教改革史，师从美国著名宗教改革史专家哈罗德·格里姆（Harold J. Grimm, 1901－1983）。他在宾州大学组织开设了“西方文明史”课程，本书就是在该课程讲义的基础上发展而成的。本书首次发表于1991年，目前已经是第三版，出版于2004年。 该书作者的学衔并不高，但从他曾获过五次重大的大学教学奖，其中1988－1999年度的宾州大学教学奖教金项目还是该大学的最高教学荣誉这一情况来看，应该说他在教学上还是很有一套的。对于他的这部西方文明史教材也是好评如潮，人们交口称赞它在历史综合方面的简明而均衡，风格平易可读，线索清晰且妙趣横生，能够激发人们的研究兴趣等等。实际上该教材在美国的影响面也相当广，从常春藤大学到两年制专业技术学校的许多学校都在使用它。综合起来看，本教材具有如下一些可贵的特点：涵盖了整个历史过程中的社会、文化、经济和政治等各个方面，信息含量丰富；附有大量形式多样的原始史料，其中有信件、回忆录、抒情小调、官方文件、日记、菜单、诗歌、话剧片断等，在网络上还有更多的史料扩展；配有300多幅地图和艺术品图片，并在每一章都列出各主要民族历史事件的比照年表，同时每一章都有内容很充实的引言和结语，这些文字不仅很好地综合阐明了各个重要主题，而且有助于保证叙述的连续性。 总之，本书是当今世界最优秀的西方文明史简明教材之一，它被引入我国大学教材序列应该说是一件可喜可贺的事情，对于提升我国国民对西方文明的认识水平，无疑是有重要助益的。 本书中译本http://book.douban.com/subject/4189775/

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 timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history.

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 timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history.