A HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 04300012B58426
English Summary/英文概要： 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 the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds them with less familiar material, from Peru to the Ukraine, China to the Caribbean. He looks at cultures that have failed and vanished, as well as the origins of today’s superpowers, and finds surprising echoes and parallels across vast distances and epochs.
This is a book about the great change-makers of history and their times, people such as Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, Galileo and Mao, but it is also a book about us. For ‘the better we understand how rulers lose touch with reality, or why revolutions produce dictators more often than they produce happiness, or why some parts of the world are richer than others, the easier it is to understand our own times.’ Fresh, exciting and vividly readable, this is popular history at its very best.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 許多新的發現不斷的出現，讓人類過去對於史實的既有偏見及觀念受到挑戰，而我們所認識歷史也漸漸正再改變…
英國暢銷歷史作家Andrew Marr將重新審視這些傳統的歷史故事，之前往往歷史都以歐洲為中心向外延伸，但這次作者將從瑪雅談到蒙古，從非洲西部古王國貝寧到波蘭雅蓋洛王朝(Jagiellonian dynasty)，更多聚焦在美洲、非洲及亞洲等地所發生的歷史，並且透過單一事件的發生串連出更多更大的歷史故事。例如：俄羅斯的農奴解放發生的同時，剛好是美國南北戰爭關鍵時刻，最後美國也廢除奴隸制度。但俄羅斯的事件卻是作者從大文豪托爾斯泰的插曲事件開啟（托爾斯泰賣奴來償還自己龐大的賭債）。(Vincent)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Andrew Marr 1959年生於英國格拉斯哥市，畢業於劍橋大學。曾在許多報社擔任政治記者有一段很長時間，2000年開始在BBC電視台服務，製作及編寫歷史電視紀錄片，目前在BBC1台固定主持週日脫口秀。著有多部歷史相關的著作。
Andrew Marr was born in Glasgow in 1959. He studied English at the University of Cambridge and has since enjoyed a long career in political journalism, working for the Scotsman, the Independent, the Daily Express and the Observer. From 2000 to 2005 he was the BBC’s Political Editor. He has written and presented TV documentaries on history, science and politics, and presents the weekly Andrew Marr Show on Sunday mornings on BBC1 and Start the Week on Radio 4. He lives in London with his family.
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