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In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-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 <i>Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser </i>was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen languages across the world. Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. <i>A Little History of the World </i>presents his lively and involving history to English-language readers for the first time. Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this is a book to be savored and collected. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man 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 mankind’s experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity’s achievements and an acute witness to its frailties. The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history.
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Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser, Christoph Waltz, E.H. Gombrich
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
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- Titel
- Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser
- Untertitel
- Von der Renaissance bis heute
- Autor*innen
- Christoph Waltz, E.H. Gombrich
- Verlag
- Argon Verlag; Auflage: 5
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
- ISBN10
- 386610099X
- ISBN13
- 9783866100992
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Young Adult
- Beschreibung
- In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-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 <i>Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser </i>was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen languages across the world. Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. <i>A Little History of the World </i>presents his lively and involving history to English-language readers for the first time. Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this is a book to be savored and collected. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man 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 mankind’s experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity’s achievements and an acute witness to its frailties. The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history.