In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen la...(展开全部)

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen la...(展开全部)

E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text su...(展开全部)

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of traditional histories, which have tended to be Eurocentric, telling mankind's story through tales of Greece and Rome and the crowned heads of Europe's oldest monarchies. Here he widen...(展开全部)

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of traditional histories, which have tended to be Eurocentric, telling mankind's story through tales of Greece and Rome and the crowned heads of Europe's oldest monarchies. Here he widen...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·韦斯特·戴维森（James West Davidson）＠美国著名历史学家＠耶鲁大学美国史博士＠美国中学、大学历史教科书编写者，拥有百万学生读者＠其与约翰·鲁格合著的《伟大心灵：拉布拉多半岛探险史》（1988）被美国国家地理学会评选为“史上最伟大的100本探险书”之一。

詹姆斯·韦斯特·戴维森（James West Davidson）＠美国著名历史学家＠耶鲁大学美国史博士＠美国中学、大学历史教科书编写者，拥有百万学生读者＠其与约翰·鲁格合著的《伟大心灵：拉布拉多半岛探险史》（1988）被美国国家地理学会评选为“史上最伟大的100本探险书”之一。

詹姆斯·韦斯特·戴维森（James West Davidson）＠美国著名历史学家＠耶鲁大学美国史博士＠美国中学、大学历史教科书编写者，拥有百万学生读者＠其与约翰·鲁格合著的《伟大心灵：拉布拉多半岛探险史》（1988）被美国国家地理学会评选为“史上最伟大的100本探险书”之一。

詹姆斯·韦斯特·戴维森（James West Davidson）＠美国著名历史学家＠耶鲁大学美国史博士＠美国中学、大学历史教科书编写者，拥有百万学生读者＠其与约翰·鲁格合著的《伟大心灵：拉布拉多半岛探险史》（1988）被美国国家地理学会评选为“史上最伟大的100本探险书”之一。

詹姆斯·韦斯特·戴维森（James West Davidson）＠美国著名历史学家＠耶鲁大学美国史博士＠美国中学、大学历史教科书编写者，拥有百万学生读者＠其与约翰·鲁格合著的《伟大心灵：拉布拉多半岛探险史》（1988）被美国国家地理学会评选为“史上最伟大的100本探险书”之一。