AI导读
核心看点
- 侧重西方文明史，从远古讲至一战
- 文笔生动幽默，兼具文学与史学价值
- 强调感受历史脉络，而非死记硬背
适合谁读
- 世界史入门初学者与青少年读者
- 对西方文化背景与思维感兴趣的读者
- 喜欢通俗叙事风格的历史爱好者
读前提醒
- 非严谨学术著作，细节可能略显模糊
- 作者视角偏西方，需保持批判性阅读
- 适合通读以建立宏观历史框架认知
读者共识
- 通俗易读，是极佳的历史启蒙读物
- 房龙笔触充满人文关怀与乐观色彩
- 相比专业史书，更注重故事性与趣味
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "Carthage was a plutocracy and the real power of the state lay in the hands of a dozen big ship-owners and mine-owners and merchants who met in the back room of an office and regarded their common Fatherland as a business enterprise which ought to yield them a decent profit."
- "Of course, such a "plutocracy" was forever at the mercy of the crowd. As long as there was plenty of work and wages were high, the majority of the citizens were quite contented, allowed their "betters" to rule them and asked no embarrassing questions. But when no ships left the harbor, when no ore w"
- "But just as the Greeks had not loved their Aegean teachers, in this same way did the Romans hate their Etruscan masters. They got rid of them as soon as they could and the opportunity offered itself when Greek merchants discovered the commercial possibilities of Italy and when the first Greek vessel"
- "But once the kings had been driven from the city, the Romans were forced to bridle the power of the nobles, and it took many centuries before they managed to establish a system which gave every free citizen of Rome a chance to take a personal interest in the affairs of his town."
- "They were less imaginative than the Greeks and they preferred an ounce of action to a pound of words."
- "He refused to accept battle but forever he followed Hannibal, destroyed everything eatable, destroyed the roads, attacked small detachments and generally weakened the morale of the Carthaginian troops by a most distressing and annoying form of guerilla warfare."
- "Unfortunately the messengers fell into the hands of the Romans and Hannibal waited in vain for further news until his brother's head, neatly packed in a basket, came rolling into his camp and told him of the fate of the last of the Carthaginian troops."
- "Driven from one city to another, a fugitive without a home, Hannibal at last knew that the end of his ambitious dream had come. His beloved city of Carthage had been ruined by the war. She had been forced to sign a terrible peace. Her navy had been sunk. She had been forbidden to make war without Ro"
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用户评论
房龙是我喜欢的第三个美国的历史学家了，在刘易斯艾伦和托马斯潘恩后的第三个
我读的是英文版的~
简明历史读物 感受大师手笔 “人类的精神总是落后于物质啊”
看的是冊無敵精裝本 可惜列表里沒有 就挑了這個讀過人數最多的評好了
少年时读过这个版本
好看 你要学会在点线的事件中发现他的动机 节点抓住 环环相扣的 几千年的人类史 人性没有变 懂得的永远只有少数 大多的都是被操控还自以为是
少儿读物，不错的小学高年级扫盲用书
20多年前趁房龙热买的，已忘干净，现今再匆匆读一遍，发现没啥惊艳，普及读物一本
生动有趣，但是没怎么提到中国，略有遗憾。
读的是扇贝上的英文原版，一看就是19-20世纪欧洲中心理念的产物。虽不全面，但它对西方文明的发展脉络描述还是很清晰的，从这里可以窥见一些西方文明的底层密码，如宗教、贸易、民主制度等的论述很有看头。
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