Screen LibraryA little history of the world /
"In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the twenty-six-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 fur...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven : |
| Publication Dates: |
2008. ©2005 |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English German |
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"In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the twenty-six-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 fur junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success. It is now available in eighteen languages across the world." "Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. A Little History of the World presents his lively and involving history to Eng Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this book tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. What emerges is a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. Tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. |
| Item Description: | This translation originally published: 2005. |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780300143324 030014332X |
| Index Number: | D23 |
| CLC: | K1-49 |
| Call Number: | K1-49/G632 |
| Contents: | Once upon a time -- The greatest inventors of all time -- The land by the Nile -- Sunday, Monday -- The one and only god -- I c-a-n r-e-a-d -- Heroes and their weapons -- An unequal struggle -- Two small cities in one small land -- The enlightened one and his land -- A great teacher of a great people -- The greatest adventure of all -- New wars and new warriors -- An enemy of history -- Rulers of the western world -- The good news -- Life in the empire and at its frontiers -- The storm -- The starry night begins -- There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet -- A conqueror who kno |