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A Short History of the World

著者 H. G. Wells · 67 章 · about 8 hours 43 minutes 読書時間

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世界の歴史全体を、実際に読み終えられる一冊に収めるにはどうすればよいでしょうか。H. G. Wells はそれに挑戦し、人々よりずっと前、地球そのものと最初の生き物から始めます。そして帝国、宗教、戦争、発明を通して歩み、それらすべてが何を意味するのかを常に問いかけます。Wells は明快に書き、大きく考えるので、巨大な出来事でも理解しやすく感じられます。読み終えると、自分の時代が違って見えるでしょう。

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章の一覧

Chapter I: The World in Space4 min Chapter II: The World in Time5 min Chapter III: The Beginnings of Life5 min Chapter IV: The Age of Fishes6 min Chapter V: The Age of the Coal Swamps6 min Chapter VI: The Age of Reptiles6 min Chapter VII: The First Birds and the First Mammals6 min Chapter VIII: The Age of Mammals6 min Chapter IX: Monkeys, Apes and Sub-men6 min Chapter X: The Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian Man6 min Chapter XI: The First True Men7 min Chapter XII: Primitive Thought7 min Chapter XIII: The Beginnings of Cultivation7 min Chapter XIV: Primitive Neolithic Civilizations7 min Chapter XV: Sumeria, Early Egypt and Writing6 min Chapter XVI: Primitive Nomadic Peoples6 min Chapter XVII: The First Seagoing Peoples7 min Chapter XVIII: Egypt, Babylon and Assyria9 min Chapter XIX: The Primitive Aryans7 min Chapter XX: The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I6 min Chapter XXI: The Early History of the Jews8 min Chapter XXII: Priests and Prophets in Judea6 min Chapter XXIII: The Greeks8 min Chapter XXIV: The Wars of the Greeks and Persians6 min Chapter XXV: The Splendour of Greece5 min Chapter XXVI: The Empire of Alexander the Great6 min Chapter XXVII: The Museum and Library at Alexandria8 min Chapter XXVIII: The Life of Gautama Buddha8 min Chapter XXIX: King Asoka3 min Chapter XXX: Confucius and Lao Tse8 min Chapter XXXI: Rome Comes Into History8 min Chapter XXXII: Rome and Carthage6 min Chapter XXXIII: The Growth of the Roman Empire17 min Chapter XXXIV: Between Rome and China7 min Chapter XXXV: The Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman Empire9 min Chapter XXXVI: Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire9 min Chapter XXXVII: The Teaching of Jesus10 min Chapter XXXVIII: The Development of Doctrinal Christianity5 min Chapter XXXIX: The Barbarians Break the Empire Into East and West7 min Chapter XL: The Huns and the End of the Western Empire8 min Chapter XLI: The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires6 min Chapter XLII: The Dynasties of Suy and Tang in China3 min Chapter XLIII: Muhammad and Islam5 min Chapter XLIV: The Great Days of the Arabs5 min Chapter XLV: The Development of Latin Christendom12 min Chapter XLVI: The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion14 min Chapter XLVII: Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism14 min Chapter XLVIII: The Mongol Conquests7 min Chapter XLIX: The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans14 min Chapter L: The Reformation of the Latin Church6 min Chapter LI: The Emperor Charles V14 min Chapter LII: The Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in Europe15 min Chapter LIII: The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas7 min Chapter LIV: The American War of Independence8 min Chapter LV: The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France12 min Chapter LVI: The Uneasy Peace in Europe That Followed the Fall of Napoleon6 min Chapter LVII: The Development of Material Knowledge14 min Chapter LVIII: The Industrial Revolution7 min Chapter LIX: The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas18 min Chapter LX: The Expansion of the United States12 min Chapter LXI: The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe2 min Chapter LXII: The New Overseas Empires of Steamship and Railway9 min Chapter LXIII: European Aggression in Asia and the Rise of Japan8 min Chapter LXIV: The British Empire in 19143 min Chapter LXV: The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-187 min Chapter LXVI: The Revolution and Famine in Russia8 min Chapter LXVII: The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World10 min