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《历史的概要》是1921年的美国非小说类畅销书,1927年由商务印书馆引入中国,译名为《世界史纲》。这是一本饶有兴味的书。威尔斯以文学家的手笔从地球史写到人类史,从人类如何产生写到第一次世界大战如何结束,述来娓娓动听,引人入胜。
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《历史的概要》是1921年的美国非小说类畅销书,1927年由商务印书馆引入中国,译名为《世界史纲》。这是一本饶有兴味的书。威尔斯以文学家的手笔从地球史写到人类史,从人类如何产生写到第一次世界大战如何结束,述来娓娓动听,引人入胜。
INTRODUCTION
1. THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME
2. THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS
3. NATURAL SELECTION AND THE CHANGES OF SPECIES
4. THE INVASION OF THE DRY LAND BY LIFE
5. THE AGE OF REPTILES
6. THE AGE OF MAMMALS
7. THE ANCESTRY OF MAN
8. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE
9. THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PALAEOLITHIC MEN, THE FIRST TRUE MEN
10. NEOLITHIC MAN IN EUROPE
11. EARLY THOUGHT
12. THE RACES OF MANKIND
13. THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND
14. THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS
15. SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES
16. WRITING
17. GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS
18. SERFS, SLAVES, SOCIAL CLASSES, AND FREE INDIVIDUALS
19. THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS
20. THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES
21. THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS
22. GREEK THOUGHT IN RELATION TO HUMAN SOCIETY
23. THE CAREER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
24. SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA
25. THE RISE AND SPREAD OF BUDDHISM
26. THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS
27. FROM TIBERIUS GRACCHUS TO THE GOD-EMPEROR IN ROME
28. THE CAESARS BETWEEN THE SEAAND THE GREAT PLAINS OF THE OLD WORLD
29. THE BEGINNINGS, THE RISE, AND THE DMSIONS OF CHRISTIANITY
30. SEVEN CENTURIES IN ASIA
31. MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM
32. CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES
33. THE GREAT EMPIRE OF JENGIS KHAN AND HIS SUCCESSORS
34. THE RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
35. PRINCES, PARLIAMENTS, AND POWERS
36. THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE
37. THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
38. THE REALITIES AND IMAGINATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
39. THE INTERNATIONAL CATASTROPHE OF 1914
40. THE NEXT STAGE OF HISTORY
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