历史的概要

赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯(1866～1946)，英国著名小说家，尤以科幻小 说创作闻名于世，著名的有《时间机器》《隐身人》《星际战争》等。他 还是位社会改革家和预言家，一生创作了百多部作品，内容涉及科学、文 化、历史、社会、政治等各个领域。 《历史的概要》是1921年的美国非小说类畅销书，1927年由商务印书 馆引入中国，译名为《世界史纲》。这是一本饶有兴味的书。威尔斯以文 学家的手笔从地球史写到人类史，从人类如何产生写到第一次世界大战如 何结束，述来娓娓动听，引人入胜。

INTRODUCTION 1. THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME 2. THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS 3. NATURAL SELECTION AND THE CHANGES OF SPECIES 4. THE INVASION OF THE DRY LAND BY LIFE 5. THE AGE OF REPTILES 6. THE AGE OF MAMMALS 7. THE ANCESTRY OF MAN 8. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE 9. THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PALAEOLITHIC MEN, THE FIRST TRUE MEN 10. NEOLITHIC MAN IN EUROPE 11. EARLY THOUGHT 12. THE RACES OF MANKIND 13. THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND 14. THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS 15. SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES 16. WRITING 17. GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS 18. SERFS, SLAVES, SOCIAL CLASSES, AND FREE INDIVIDUALS 19. THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS 20. THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES 21. THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS 22. GREEK THOUGHT IN RELATION TO HUMAN SOCIETY 23. THE CAREER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT 24. SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA 25. THE RISE AND SPREAD OF BUDDHISM 26. THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS 27. FROM TIBERIUS GRACCHUS TO THE GOD-EMPEROR IN ROME 28. THE CAESARS BETWEEN THE SEAAND THE GREAT PLAINS OF THE OLD WORLD 29. THE BEGINNINGS, THE RISE, AND THE DMSIONS OF CHRISTIANITY 30. SEVEN CENTURIES IN ASIA 31. MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM 32. CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES 33. THE GREAT EMPIRE OF JENGIS KHAN AND HIS SUCCESSORS 34. THE RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION 35. PRINCES, PARLIAMENTS, AND POWERS 36. THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE 37. THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 38. THE REALITIES AND IMAGINATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 39. THE INTERNATIONAL CATASTROPHE OF 1914 40. THE NEXT STAGE OF HISTORY CHRONOLOGICALTABLE