Uma Pequena História do Mundo View Online By E.H. Gombrich
| Title | : | Uma Pequena História do Mundo |
| Author | : | E.H. Gombrich |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 317 pages |
| ISBN | : | 9728955073 |
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 Eine kurze Weltgeschichte f r junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in sevente 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 Eine kurze Weltgeschichte f r junge Leser 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 A Little History of the World 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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Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE 30 March 1909 3 November 2001 was an Austrian born art historian, who spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom.
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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
317 pagesE.H. Gombrich
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