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书籍介绍
翻开这本书，你会先被它举重若轻的姿态打动：房龙把数千年文明史讲得像在炉边聊天，从迦太基的船商寡头讲到罗马人如何摆脱伊特鲁里亚人的阴影，笔调里带着从容的幽默。可正是这种轻松，藏着它最大的争议——当故事滑向你熟悉的历史，许多读者感到疲倦：概括太浅，像一杯白开水，具体历史的波澜被篇幅削平了。它确实适合入门者先建立一个大致轮廓，但真正让这本书不可替代的，是房龙那份清醒的主观自觉：他一面强调客观，一面坦承自己是在为
作者简介
房龙（VanLoon.H.W.，—），杰出的美国通俗历史作家，出生于荷兰。他年开始写书，直到年写出《人类的故事》，一举成名，饮誉世界。房龙一生著述颇丰，写了多部涉及历史、文化、文明以及科学等方面的书籍，主要包括《房龙地理》《文明的开端》《太平洋的故事》《人类的艺术》《圣经的故事》《宽容》《美国的故事》《与伟人谈心》以及此书《人类的故事》等。房龙的著作文笔优美、知识广博、轻松风趣，真知灼见发人深省，贯穿着理性、宽容和进步的人文主义思想，具有经久不衰的魅力，在世界各地广受读者喜爱。房龙是出色的通俗作家，伟大的文化普及者，他的目标是向人类的无知和偏执挑战。他采取的方式是普及知识与真理，使他们成为尽人皆知的常识。
AI导读
核心看点
- 房龙以生动笔触勾勒人类文明演进史
- 从远古文明至近代变革的宏大历史画卷
- 侧重西方史观，穿插重要人物功过评述
读者共识
- 文笔流畅幽默，极具故事性与感染力
- 适合建立历史大致轮廓，不宜深究细节
- 经典入门读物，但需警惕其时代局限
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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为了叙写一种追寻的真理。
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