FIFTY THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WORLD HISTORY
Book ID/图书代码： 0604030B38080
English Summary/英文概要： What are the key 50 events you really need to understand to grasp the developments of our world? In this highly entertaining read Hugh Williams distils world history into an insightful overview. By selecting fifty key people, places, battles, objects and events, he casts a clear eye over the way the world has developed and how we live today. Injecting life into familiar historical landmarks as well as bringing lesser-known events to the forefront, Hugh shapes the fifty things into themes as all-encompassing today as they were over two thousand years ago: wealth, religion, conquest, discovery and freedom. The Fifty Things include! Origin of Species Model T Ford The Russian Revolution Plato Conquest of Mexico Mao Tse Tung Crucifixion of Jesus Via Egnatia Worldwide web Ozymandias 9/11 Nelson Mandela Coronation of Charlemagne American Declaration of Independence Franco-Prussian War Mahabharata The Black Death And many more!
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者 Hugh Williams 以既有趣又有深度的方式帶你探討世界歷史 !
如果要舉出哪50個人、事、物對社會的發展有決定性的重大影響，而又怎麼影響我們現在的生活呢?
作者Hugh Williams依照5個不同主題如: 財富、自由、宗教、征服和發現，分別列舉十項重要的人物、地點、戰爭、發明和事件。
財富 - 2007年金融海嘯、西元750年的長安市
自由 - 1776年美國宣佈獨立、1789年法國大革命
宗教 - 佛祖、2001年9/11恐怖攻擊
征服 - 成吉斯汗、亞歷山大大帝
發明 - 唐朝初期發明的雕版印刷技術、1990發明的網際網路等等(Jennifer)
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About the Author/作者介绍： About the author Hugh Williams read Modern History at Oxford before beginning his career in television with the BBC. He has specialised in history and current affairs programming and in the early 80s was responsible for introducing the famous BBC history programme ’Timewatch’ into the schedules. While Head of Broadcasting in Manchester he had the idea for and subsequently commissioned A.N. Wilson’s series ’Eminent Victorians’.
Hugh Williams 曾在英國牛津大學敎現代史, 目前在英國 BBC 工作。他的節目 「時事焦點」(Timewatch) 一直很受觀眾歡迎。之前作品包括 <<關於英國歷史你必須知道的50個東西>> (Fifty Things You Need to Know about British History) 。
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