This Fleeting World

出版者:Berkshire Publishing Group

作者:David Christian

页数:120

出版时间:2007-6

价格:USD$ 18.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781933782041

具体描述

A great historian can make clear the connections between the first Homo sapiens and today s version of the species, and a great storyteller can make those connections come alive. David Christian is both, and This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity, makes the journey from the earliest foraging era to the agrarian era to our own modern era a fascinating one. Ready to help your students give up their preconceptions that anything old is probably boring? Enter This Fleeting World. A compact, easy-to-read overview of world history, ideal for curriculum development, classroom preparation, and student review.

作者简介

David Christian is a professor of world history at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and co-founder, with Bill Gates, of the Big History Project. In 1989, Christian began teaching the first course on big history, an interdisciplinary field that examines history starting with the Big Bang, and his work came to the attention of Bill Gates through a video course produced by The Teaching Company. In 2014, Gates and Christian were the subjects of the cover story of the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, which won the World History Association book prize (2004), and is writing a history of Central Asia. He is also the author of Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation and (with R. E. F. Smith) Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia. He has spoken about big history at the TED Conference, the World Economic Forum, and on the Comedy Central program The Colbert Report.

读后感

（一） 王朝的兴替，是很多中国历史学者在研究中的一个默认的“标准模式”。不过，在作者看来，能够用一种深邃或者智慧，更加朴实或者“普世”的眼光，穿越历史的迷雾，在朝代更替的明线之下，看到连绵发展“暗线”似乎更加重要。 历史，有其内在的节律。在一声声万岁万岁山呼...  

我们迫切地需要理解整个人类的历史，这正是眼前这本《极简人类史》的写作初衷。今天的世界联系空前紧密，面临的问题也越来越多。生活在地球村，我们不但要了解彼此的分歧，更应该清楚彼此共同的关切。如果我们想避免因战争或生态崩溃（ 或两者共同作用）导致的全球性危机，“ ...  

《人类简史》让我们看到了人类残暴的一面，而《极简人类史》又展示了智人的智慧。 作者大卫•克里斯蒂安，历史学者，专注于研究“大历史”理论，著有《大历史概论：从原点到宇宙万物》等。本书是一本既学术又通俗的人类发展史，它涉及人类史的细节不深，但内容全面，结构脉...  

《人类简史》让我们看到了人类残暴的一面，而《极简人类史》又展示了智人的智慧。 作者大卫•克里斯蒂安，历史学者，专注于研究“大历史”理论，著有《大历史概论：从原点到宇宙万物》等。本书是一本既学术又通俗的人类发展史，它涉及人类史的细节不深，但内容全面，结构脉...  

用户评价

用特别的形式读了这本小书。确实是fleeting，用来粗略了解还行。

详见中文版，中信即将推出《极简人类史：从宇宙大爆炸到21世纪》

用特别的形式读了这本小书。确实是fleeting，用来粗略了解还行。

用特别的形式读了这本小书。确实是fleeting，用来粗略了解还行。

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