推荐理由
此书为美国鲍德温儿童文学网推荐的优秀青少年读物。此书自问世以来八十余年，在全世界已来八十余年，在全世界已行销数千万册，读者的热情历久不衰。
内容简介
《人类的故事》上起远古，从埃及和美索不达米亚文明的发端，历数爱琴海文明、印度文明、中国文明以及古罗马文明，并以基督教的兴起为线索论述中世纪社会的发展和演变，勾勒出城市的兴起、文艺复兴乃至近代国家的形成，荤荦大端，各有条理。
在追溯一些主要国家的历史脉络的同时，作者讲述了许多重要历史人物的故事，品评他们的功过得失，给全书增添了不小的趣味性。房龙对东西方各种文明都有深入的研究，而且生当一、二次世界大战的乱世，他始终关注的一个问题便足各种文明之间如何才能破除此疆彼界，达到相互宽容与理解。在这本书中，房龙展示了一幅宏大的历史画卷，请读者站在人类发展的顶点，俯瞰这条奔腾不息的历长河。房龙一生博学多能，他的许多图书都自画插图，图与文相得益彰。
作者简介：
A Dutch—American historian and journalist.Born in Rotterdam，he went to the United States in 1903 to study at Cornell University．From the 1910s until his death，Van Loon wrote many books．Most widely known among these is The Story of Mankind，a history of the world especially for children，which won the first Newbery Medal in 1922.
目录
FOREWORD
Chapter 1
Chapter 2 THE SETTING OF THE STAGE
Chapter 3 OUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS
Chapter 4 PREHISTORIC MAN
Chapter S HIEROGLYPHICS
Chapter 6 THE NILE VALLEY
Chapter 7 THE STORY OF EGYPT
Chapter 8 MESOPOTAMIA
Chapter 9 THE SUMERIANS
Chapter 10 MOS．ES
Chapter 11 THE PHOENICIANS
Chapter 12 THE IND0—EUROPEANS
Chapter 13 THE AEGEAN SEA
Chapter 14 THE GREEKS
Chapter 15 THE GREEK CITIES
Chapter 16 GREEK SELF—GOVERNMENT
Chapter 17 GREEK LIFE
Chapter 18 THE GREEK THEATRE
Chapter 19 THE PERSIAN WARS
Chapter 20 ATHENS Vs．SPlARTA
Chapter 21 ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Chapter 22 A SUMMARY
Chapter 23 ROME AND CARTHAGE
Chapter 24 THE RISE OF ROME
Chapter 25 THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Chapter 26 JOSHUA OF NAZARETH
Chapter 27 THE FALL OF ROME
Chapter 28 RISE OF THE CHURCH
Chapter 29 MOHAMMED
Chapter 30 CHARLEMAGNE
Chapter 31 THE NORSEMEN
Chapter 32 FEUDALISM
Chapter 33 CHIVALRY
Chapter 34 POPE vs. EMPEROR
Chapter 35 THE CRUSADES
Chapter 36 THE MEDIEVAL CITY
Chapter 37 MEDIAEVAL SELF-GOVERNMEN1
Chapter 38 THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
Chapter 39 MEDIEVAL TRADE
Chapter 40 THE RENAISSANCE
Chapter 41 THE AGE OF EXPRESSION
Chapter 42 THE GREAT DISCOVERIES
Chapter 43 BUDDHA AND CONFUCIUS
Chapter 44 THE REFORMATION
Chapter 45 RELIGIOUS WARFARE
Chapter 46 THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
Chapter 47 THE BALANCE OF POWER
Chapter 48 THE RISE OF RUSSIA
Chapter 49 RUSSIA vs. SWEDEN
Chapter 50 THE RISE OF PRUSSIA
Chapter 51 THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM
Chapter 52 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Chapter 53 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Chapter 54 NAPOLEON
Chapter 55 THE HOLY ALLIANCE
Chapter 56 THE GREAT REACTION
Chapter 57 NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
Chapter 58 THE AGE OF THE ENGINE
Chapter 49 THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION
Chapter 60 EMANCIPATION
Chapter 61 THE AGE OF SCIENCE
Chapter 62 ART
Chapter 63 COLONIAL EXPANSION AND WAR
Chapter 64 A NEW WORLD
AS IT EVER SHALL BE
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