![给大家看的全球通史 - [美] 亨德里克·威廉·房龙](https://static.book345.com/covers/s/9787548425151.jpg)
书籍介绍
翻开这本书，你会先被它流畅好读的文字吸引，但读完后留在心里的，往往是另一种复杂感受。房龙把人类文明写成了一部有血有肉的长篇故事——从石器到工业革命，从迦太基的商人政治到汉尼拔的游击战，他偏爱用具体的人和事讲道理，而非堆砌编年史。然而正是这种
作者简介
房龙，美国著名学者、作家、历史地理学家。先后就读于美国康奈尔大学和德国慕尼黑大学，获博士学位。
曾从事多种职业，最终在写作方面取得了令人瞩目的成就，是迄今为止世界上最有影响力的通俗作家之一。其作品被翻译成数十种文字，印刷上千次，影响数以亿计的读者。
他的作品风格新颖、文笔流畅、生动有趣，有历史教授称：在房龙的笔下，历史上死气沉沉的人物都成了活生生的人。
AI导读
核心看点
- 房龙以生动笔触勾勒从石器时代到近代的人类文明画卷
- 侧重西方文明发展，涵盖古希腊罗马至工业革命历程
- 叙事如讲故事般引人入胜，兼具文学性与历史感
读者共识
- 文字流畅生动，极具感染力，适合当作启蒙读物
- 视角明显偏向西方，被部分读者视为‘欧洲简史’
- 结构相对松散，严谨性不如学术通史，重在趣味
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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