人类的故事
2011-10
清华大学出版社
（美）房龙 著，王勋 等编译
440
本书是一部描写人类文明发展史的经典之作。房龙以轻松平易的风格及幽默风趣的语言，由人类的起源、史前人类、佛祖释迦牟尼、圣人孔子、古希腊和罗马帝国、十字军东征、文艺复兴、启蒙运动，一直写到近代，为读者展示了人类历史的浩荡长卷。该书一度被美国中学选为历史教科书，还曾获得美国最著名的儿童文学奖“纽伯瑞奖”。
无论作为通俗的人类文明历史读本，还是作为语言学习的课外读物，本书对当代中国的读者都将产生积极的影响。为了使读者能够了解每段历史概况，提高阅读速度和阅读水平，在每段故事的开始部分增加了中文导读。同时，为了读者更好地理解书中内容，在部分章节中加入了插图，其中不乏不同时期著名画家的作品。
作者：(美国)房龙 编译：王勋 纪飞 等
1.舞台布景/The Setting of the Stage
2.我们最早的祖先/Our Earliest Ancestors
3.史前人类/Prehistoric Man
4.象形文字/Hieroglyphics
5.尼罗河谷地/The Nile Valley
6.埃及的故事/The Story of Egypt
7.两河流域/Mesopotamia
8.苏美尔人/The Sumerians
9.摩西/Moses
10.腓尼基人/The Phoenicians
11.印欧人/The Indo-Europeans
12.爱琴海/The Aegean Sea
13.古希腊人/The Greeks
14.古希腊城市/The Greek Cities
15.古希腊的自治/Greek Self-Government
16.古希腊生活/Greek Life
17.古希腊戏剧/The Greek Theatre
18.波斯战争/The Persian Wars
19.雅典对斯巴达/Athens vs. Sparta
20.亚历山大大帝/Alexander the Great
21.小结/A Summary
22.罗马与迦太基/Rome and Carthage
23.罗马的崛起/The Rise of Rome
24.罗马帝国/The Roman Empire
25.拿舍勒的约书亚/Joshua of Nazareth
26.罗马的覆亡/The Fall of Rome
27.教会的崛起/Rise of the Church
28.穆罕默德/Mohammed
29.查理曼大帝/Charlemagne
30.北欧人/The Norsemen
31.封建社会/Feudalism
32.骑士制度/Chivalry
33.教皇对皇帝/Pope vs. Emperor
34.十字军东征/The Crusades
35.中世纪的城市/The Mediaeval City
36.中世纪的自治/Mediaeval Self-Government
37.中世纪世界/The Mediaeval World
38.中世纪的贸易/Mediaeval Trade
39.文艺复兴/The Renaissance
40.表现的时代/The Age of Expression
41.大发现/The Great Discoveries
42.佛陀与孔子/Buddha and Confucius
43.宗教改革/The Reformation
44.宗教战争/Religious Warfare
45.英国革命/The English Revolution
46.势力均衡/The Balance of Power
47.俄罗斯的崛起/The Rise of Russie
48.俄罗斯对瑞典/Russia vs. Sweden
49.普鲁士的崛起/The Rise of Prussia
50.重商主义/The Mercantile System
51.美国革命/The American Revolution
52.法国革命/The French Revolution
53.拿破仑/Napoleon
54.神圣同盟/The Holy Alliance
55.大反动/The Great Reaction
56.民族独立/National Independence
57.发动机时代/ The Age of the Engine
58.社会革命/ The Social Revolution
59.解放/ Emancipation
60.科学的时代/ The Age of Science
61.艺术/ Art
62.殖民扩张与战争/ Colonial Expansion and War
63.新世界/ A New World
64.永恒的真理/ As It ever Shall Be
版权页：插图：Then came the glaciers and the many centuries of cold weather,and life on this planet became SO difficult that man was obliged to think three times as hard as ever before if he wished to survive.Since.however,that‘'wish to survive”was（and is）the mainspring which keeps every living being going full tilt to the last gasp of its breath，the brain of glacial man was set to work in all earnestness.Not only did these hardy people manage to exist through the long cold spells which killed many ferocious animals，but when the earth became warm and comfortable once more，prehiistoric man had learned a number of things which gave him such great advantages over his less intelligent neighbors that the danger of extinction fa very serious one during the first half million years of man’S residence upon this planet）became a very remote one.I told you how these earliest ancestors of ours were slowly plodding along when suddenly（and for reasons that are not well understood）the people who lived in the valley of the Nile rushed ahead and almost overnight.created the first centre of civilisation.Then I showed you Mesopotamia，“the land between the rivers。”which was the second great school ofthe human race.And I made you a map ofthe little island bridges of the Aegean Sea，which carried the knowledge and the science of the old east to the young west。where lived the Greeks.Next I told you of an Indo.European tribe，called the Hellenes.who thousands ofyears before had left the heart ofAsia and who had in the eleventh century before our era pushed their way into the rocky peninsula of Greece and who，since then，have been known to US as the Greeks.And I told you the story of the little Greek cities that were really states，where the civilisation of old Egypt and Asia was transfigured（that is a big word，but you can“figure out”what it means）into something quite new,something that was much nobler and freer than anything that had gone before.
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这一系列关于房龙的书，都是经典。印刷质量也不错