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What is the story of civilization about? Book review of the story of civilization
The Story of Civilization is a set of masterpieces that record the inheritance of human civilization, with a total volume of 1 1, which contains important achievements of civilization in the fields of culture, economy, philosophy, medical skills and military affairs in human history. For friends who want to know this process, this set of books is still very readable, but it may take some time to digest because of its many contents. The authors will durant and his wife are world-famous experts in culture and history. It took them more than 40 years to finish writing this set of books. Interested friends must not miss it.

Book review of the story of civilization 1: when I borrowed it from the CUHK library and started reading it, I found the first volume:

1. Speaking of human marriage, these pages, including marriage form, organization form, status and relationship between men and women, organization and expression of lust, are the dirtiest pages in the book: there are many water stains, sweat stains and stains on them. Lots of brown spots. How interesting! Different marriage organizational relationships are the embodiment of human creativity, and also reflect the repression and desire of modern people's inner roots.

2. See if everyone dares to say that they are foodies.

"Persian nobles, put food first. Because their ancestors only ate one meal a day, they dared not eat two meals. However, at this time, although they only ate one meal, the meal lasted from noon to evening. ..... In the last days of Persia, food often changed with each passing day, because the whole country was learning and everything was delicious. "

Don't just beat around in the field, otherwise it may be misunderstood by later historians.

"In Java, farmers and their wives mate in the fields to ensure that their rice fields are fertile. Because primitive people didn't know that the fertility of the land was due to nitrogen. In fact, they don't know the sex of plants, so they always think that their fertility is the same as that of women. The progress of our current knowledge has obliterated their poetic beliefs. "

Author: Hugh Nuo (from Douban)

Book Review II of The Story of Civilization;

This book is rich in content, but it is not well translated. The old Oriental edition is very expensive, so delete the notes of the new edition! ! !

According to the catalogue of this book, I selected some books from Chinese translated academic masterpieces and bought them to read.

Volume I: The Heritage of the East: The Ancient Oriental History of Afkiev [Russia], Old Edition.

Volume II Life in Greece: (Soviet Union) Salgues (вссергеев) History of Ancient Greece and [English] N.G.L Hammond's History of Greece.

Xu translated History by Herodotus, History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, History of Greece by Xenophon, Long March by business edition, Expedition by Alexander and Who's Who in Greece and Rome by Plutarch (I).

Volume III Caesar and Christ: [Su] Kovalev's History of Rome, [English] michael grant's History of Rome.

The commercial version of Monson's History of Rome, Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Apia's History of Rome, Suvitonius's Biography of the Twelve Kings of Rome, Tacitus's Chronicle, History, A New History of Rome and Biographies of the Kings of Rome.

The fourth volume The Age of Faith: [Su] Cosminschi (еакосминскиий)/[Su] Scankin (сй)

Business edition of Gothic History, Frank History, Biography of Charlemagne, War History, Church of England History, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Folklore Theory, Frederick Chronicle, Frank History, Frank Chronicle, Jerusalem History and Alexiou Biography.

Volume V Renaissance: Palmer kolton's Modern World History, Marx's Historical Notes Business Edition [Switzerland] Jacob Buckhart's Italian Renaissance Culture, History of Conquering New Spain, History of Conquering Peru, Biography of Famous Italian Art Gardens, and History of Florence.

Volume VI Religious Reform: Historical Religious Reform and the Great German Peasant War.

Volume 7 The Age of Reason Begins: 1600 History of the British Revolution and the History of the Thirty Years' War.

Volume VIII Louis XIV: Louis XIV and Louis XV

Volume 9 Voltaire Age: An Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

Volume 10 Rousseau and the Great Revolution: The History of the French Revolution by Miner and the History of the French Revolution by Madeleine.

Volume 1 1 Napoleonic era: biographies of Napoleonic era and Napoleon I.

Author: ultra3 12 (from douban)