Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE (30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who became a naturalized British citizen in 1947.[1] He spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom. He is the author of many works of cultural history and art history, including The Story of Art, a book widely regarded as one of the most accessible introductions to the visual arts.
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.
大手笔写的小历史——贡布里希的《世界小史》 “如果你想知道埃及到底在哪里,我建议你去问一只燕子。每年秋天,当天气转凉,燕子们飞向南方。它们越过群山飞临意大利,继续飞过一片海域,然后到达非洲离欧洲最近的地方。埃及不远了。”如此写世界历史,说明大手笔毕竟是大手...
评分一本青少年科普书的典范,读起来轻松流畅,趣味盎然。在非虚构类图书中,能让人有不忍掩卷的持续阅读欲望,实属难能可贵。由于所述为以欧洲古代史为主轴的世界历史,内容庞杂,浩如烟海,因此贡布里希的用笔很是节省,极尽简练之能事。但纯客观的记录,很难打动人,因此在惜字...
评分人类的历史,是一部征服与被征服的历史,一系列掠夺与反抗的血泪故事,顺便在和平时期,在战争的竞争时期,好奇心以及获胜心促使人们研究并征服自然,以便使自己过上更加舒适的生活。 西方人眼中的世界史,实际上是一部地中海沿岸的历史,那里频繁的战争与掠夺、不断有伟大人...
评分——读恩斯特·贡布里希《世界小史》 当我们在读史书的时候,我们在读什么?是政客们的互相猜忌、搞阴谋和耍手腕,还是刀剑枪炮,成堆的尸体与废墟瓦砾?很多时候,历史总是冰冷无情。即使在中学课堂中,当我们初次接触历史,老师们总是强调时间地点、人物事件、背景原因等一...
评分人类的历史,是一部征服与被征服的历史,一系列掠夺与反抗的血泪故事,顺便在和平时期,在战争的竞争时期,好奇心以及获胜心促使人们研究并征服自然,以便使自己过上更加舒适的生活。 西方人眼中的世界史,实际上是一部地中海沿岸的历史,那里频繁的战争与掠夺、不断有伟大人...
如果保留一本书,我会选择它!这么好的书不要翻译了,精美的版画插图和精致简单的语言,还有里面的智慧,每次细读都在感叹。很难想象写书时作者才26岁。
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评分很可爱的小书。可惜是写给儿童的世界史。特意读了中国先秦的孔老部分,颇不离谱。另,前言更有意思。
评分有声书。儿童读物
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