歷史的概要

內(nèi)容概要

《歷史的概要》又譯為《世界史綱》，是威爾斯寫給歷史愛好者的簡明讀本，以開闊的視野、輕快簡潔的筆調(diào)將自生命起源以來的生物及人類歷史，有條不紊地展現(xiàn)在讀者面前。本書的意圖在于“以平直的方式，向普通人展示，如果文明要想延續(xù)下去，政治、社會和經(jīng)濟組織發(fā)展成為世界性聯(lián)盟是何以不可避免的”。而其一個主題就是要說明，世界只有通過教育而不是戰(zhàn)爭和革命才能得以拯救。

作者簡介

赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯，英國著名小說家，尤以科幻小說創(chuàng)作聞名于世。1895年出版《時間機器》一舉成名，隨后又發(fā)表了《莫洛博士島》《隱身人》《星際戰(zhàn)爭》等多部科幻小說。

書籍目錄

INTRODUCTION1. THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME2. THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS3. NATURAL SELECTION AND THE CHANGES OF SPECIES4. THE INVASION OF THE DRY LAND BY LIFE5. THE AGE OF REPTILES6. THE AGE OF MAMMALS7. THE ANCESTRY OF MAN8. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE9. THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PALAEOLITHIC MEN, THE FIRST TRUE MEN10. NEOLITHIC MAN IN EUROPE11. EARLY THOUGHT12. THE RACES OF MANKIND13. THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND14. THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS15. SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES16. WRITING17. GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS18. SERFS, SLAVES, SOCIAL CLASSES, AND FREE INDIVIDUALS19. THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS20. THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES21. THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS22. GREEK THOUGHT IN RELATION TO HUMAN SOCIETY23. THE CAREER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT24. SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA25. THE RISE AND SPREAD OF BUDDHISM26. THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS27. FROM TIBERIUS GRACCHUS TO THE GOD-EMPEROR IN ROME28. THE CAESARS BETWEEN THE SEAAND THE GREAT PLAINS OF THE OLD WORLD29. THE BEGINNINGS, THE RISE, AND THE DMSIONS OF CHRISTIANITY30. SEVEN CENTURIES IN ASIA31. MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM32. CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES33. THE GREAT EMPIRE OF JENGIS KHAN AND HIS SUCCESSORS34. THE RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION35. PRINCES, PARLIAMENTS, AND POWERS36. THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE37. THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE38. THE REALITIES AND IMAGINATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY39. THE INTERNATIONAL CATASTROPHE OF 191440. THE NEXT STAGE OF HISTORYCHRONOLOGICALTABLE

章節(jié)摘錄

Were there mammals in the Mesozoic period？  This is a question not yet to be answered precisely. Patiently and steadily thegeologists gather fresh evidence and reason out completer conclusions. At anytime some new deposit may reveal fossils that will illuminate this question.Certainly either mammals, or the ancestors of the mammals, must have livedthroughout the Mesozoic period. In the very opening chapter of the Mesozoicvolume of the Record there were those Theriomorphous Reptiles to which wehave already alluded, and in the later Mesozoic a number of small jawbones arefound, entirely mammalian in character. But there is not a scrap, not a bone, tosuggest that there lived any Mesozoic Mammal which could look a dinosaur inthe face. The Mesozoic mammals or mammal-like reptiles - for we do not knowclearly which they were - seem to have been all obscure little beasts of the sizeof mice and rats, more like a down-trodden order of reptiles than a distinct class;probably they Still laid eggs and were developing only slowly their distinctivecovering of hair. They lived away from big waters, and perhaps in the desolateuplands, as marmots do now; probably they lived there beyond the pursuit of thecarnivorous dinosaurs. Some perhaps went on all fours, some chiefly went ontheir hind-legs and clambered with their fore limbs. They became fossils only sooccasionally that chance has not yet revealed a single complete skeleton in thewhole vast record of the Mesozoic rocks by which to check these Ruesses.

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