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A little history of the world / Ernst Gombrich.

by Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001

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Yale University Press, c2005.

9780300143324 (pbk.)

9780300108835 (hc.)

Kurze Weltgeschichte für Junge Leser. English. English

xix, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Originally published in Vienna in 1936.

Translated from the German.

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 knows how to rule -- A struggle to become lord of Christendom -- Chivalrous knights -- Emperors in the age of chivalry -- Cities and citizens -- A new age -- A new world -- A new faith -- The church at war -- Terrible times -- An unlucky king and a lucky king -- Meanwhile, looking eastwards ... -- A truly new age -- A very violent revolution -- The last conqueror -- Men and machines -- Across the seas -- Two new states in Europe -- Dividing up the world -- The small part of the history of the world which I have lived through myself : looking back.

"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. Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of humanity from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements and an acute witness to its frailties."--Provided by publisher.

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