内容简介
本书将文化、社会、和生活串联在一起，绘成一幅幅飘动的历史画卷。它不仅仅是一部有关政治事件、时间和人物的百科全书，而且还将个性人物和特色文明粘合在一起，清晰逼真、引人入胜地展现给我们哲学思想、宗教趋向或是艺术作品是怎样与当今时事联系等重大问题。
章节目录
PART 1 THE GREEK WORLD
1 The Age d Alexander the Great
PART2 THE ROMAN WORLD
2 The Roman RepubliC: Origins,Breakdown and Rebirth
3 Caesar and Chist
4 The Pax Romana and the Deline of Rome
PART 3 THEMEDIEVAL WORLD
5 The Sword of Faith:The High Middle Ages(1100―1300)
PART 4 FOUNDATIONS OF THE MODERN WORLD
6 “I Am the State!”:The Development of Absolutism in England and France
7 “Dare to Know!”:The Scientific Revolution
8 The Enlightenment and the Revolution of the Mind
PART 5 THE ERA OF REVOLUTION
9 “A World to win!’’:The Industrial Revolution
10 “Mark Them with Your Dead!”The scraInble for Global Empire
PART 6 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND ∷
11The Great War(1914-1918)
12 “The Abyss Also Looks into Yotl”∶War and Holocaust(1939-1945)
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