Read History from a Different Perspective (set of 3 Volumes)

About This Novel

BBC World History Our understanding of world history is always changing, as new discoveries are made all the time around the world and challenge our old prejudices. In this book, the author takes us back to those familiar major historical events, from ancient Greece and Rome to the coronation of Napoleon, to the environmental and demographic crises of the 21st century. However, what he introduces to us are the little-known stories surrounding these events, spanning Peru, Ukraine, and the Caribbean. The book not only examines those failed and disappearing civilizations, but also tells the origins of today's powers, and reveals how similar many historical events that happened in different historical periods and different geographical locations are! The book "Big History" examines not only the past of mankind, but also the past of the earth and even the past of the universe. By reading this book, readers will trace a history that began 13.8 Billion years ago, beginning with the Big Bang and the emergence of the universe. Big history encompasses research results in the fields of cosmology, earth and life sciences, and humanistic history, and integrates them into a single, universal historical narrative that provides the most scientific and comprehensive introduction possible to the universe and our place in it. The book summarizes eight major breakthroughs in the evolution of history. Each breakthrough means the emergence of something brand new. They call these breakthroughs "thresholds." From the universe to the earth, from the first life to human beings, from agricultural civilization to modern revolution, the author outlines the emergence and development of all things in the world in the order from "nothing" to "existence", using eight breakthroughs as clues. Ultimately, this book makes predictions about our near and distant future from a big historical perspective. "World History" In the first half of the 20th century, three famous American historians jointly wrote "World History", which discussed the past history of mankind from the perspective of civilization evolution. It became popular in the United States and has gone through revisions. Our country translated this book twice in 1946 and 1948. In 1975, another translation by Bing Xin, Wu Wenzao, Fei Xiaotong and others was published. This time we used the 1975 translation, replaced it with a large number of exquisite and interesting illustrations, and wrote rich and diverse illustrations to show the style of the original work. Although this book was written nearly a century ago, it is still useful and interesting to read today. It divides the long process from the emergence of human civilization to the end of World War II in 1945 into four stages - the beginning of civilization, classical civilization, Christian civilization, and modern civilization - to introduce it, focusing especially on the development path of Western civilization. The writing is brisk, the exposition is precise, and it often provides refreshing insights. The author is good at revealing the general trend of history from details. In a short space of time, he presents a vivid and colorful picture of the development of civilization that includes both upper-class elites and ordinary people's daily lives.

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