A Little History of the World
by E. H. Gombrich Author
(From Amazon): 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.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0300108834
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 39
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- Rep Tra
- Copyright
- 2005
Chapters
- 1 Once Upon A Time
- 2 The Greatest Inventors Of All Time
- 3 The Land By The Nile
- 4 Sunday, Monday
- 5 The One And Only God
- 6 I C-A-N R-E-A-D
- 8 An Unequal Struggle
- 9 Two Small Cities In One Small Land
- 10 The Enlightened One And His Land
- 11 A Great Teacher Of A Great People
- 12 The Greatest Adventure Of All
- 13 New Wars And New Warriors
- 14 An Enemy Of History
- 15 Rulers Of The Western World
- 16 The Good News
- 17 Life In The Empire And Its Frontiers
- 18 The Storm
- 19 The Starry Night Begins
- 20 There Is No God But Allah And Muhammad Is His Prophet
- 21 A Conquerer Who Knows How To Rule
- 22 A Struggle To Become Lord Of Christendom
- 23 Chilvarous Knights
- 24 Cities and Citizens
- 25 A New Age
- 26 A New World
- 27 A New Faith
- 28 The Church at War
- 29 Terrible Times
- 30 An Unlucky King and a Lucky King
- 31 Meanwhile, Looking Eastwards...
- 32 A Truly New Age
- 33 A Very Violent Revolution
- 34 The Last Conqueror
- 35 Men and Machines
- 36 Across the Seas
- 37 Two New States in Europe
- 38 Dividing the World
- 39 The Small Part of the History of the World which I Lived Through Myself: Looking Back
- 7 Heroes and their Weapons
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