'In this book, we travel back in time and across the globe, to see how we humans have shaped our world and been shaped by it over the past two million years. The story is told exclusively through the things that humans have made - all sorts of things, carefully designed and then either admired and preserved or used, broken and thrown away. I've chosen just a hundred objects fro...
'In this book, we travel back in time and across the globe, to see how we humans have shaped our world and been shaped by it over the past two million years. The story is told exclusively through the things that humans have made - all sorts of things, carefully designed and then either admired and preserved or used, broken and thrown away. I've chosen just a hundred objects from different points on our journey - from a cooking pot to a golden galleon, from a Stone Age tool to a credit card, and each object comes from the collection of the British Museum' - [from the introduction]. This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. The book's range is enormous. It begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and ends with an object from the 21st century which represents the world we live in today. Neil MacGregor's aim is not simply to describe these remarkable things, but to show us their significance - how a stone pillar tells us about a great Indian emperor preaching tolerance to his people, how Spanish pieces of eight tell us about the beginning of a global currency or how an early Victorian tea-set tells us about the impact of empire. Each chapter immerses the reader in a past civilisation accompanied by an exceptionally well-informed guide. Seen through this lens, history is a kaleidoscope - shifting, interconnected, constantly surprising, and shaping our world today in ways that most of us have never imagined. An intellectual and visual feast, it is one of the most engrossing and unusual history books published in years.
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尼尔·麦格雷戈 作者
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小黛。
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1 有用 窗前月 2015-04-24 10:56:43
还在想这名字怎么这么熟，结果我看过中文版，就是各种时空穿越的感觉。每一页都写着两个字“诚意”，不愧是大英的馆长！！！！！
0 有用 小文纸殿下 2020-06-07 11:52:10
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3 有用 花袭人出来玩啊 2014-08-20 21:16:24
选的物件绝大多数都没听说过，因此这回长了很多知识，开了眼界。第99物是信用卡，最后一物是太阳能台灯。
0 有用 Akira 2021-05-26 09:37:15
我的一千零一夜终于念完啦！100th来自China很满意w 百年世界帝国的积淀没得说，视角够开阔。从object多少还是objective的，很有意思
1 有用 Crumbs 2019-10-21 23:24:53
两年前在上海看的展，现在还有点印象。也看了中文版的书，图片比这个版本精美。作者不愧是大英博物馆的馆长，不但知识渊博，也很会写作。
0 有用 bagins 2024-05-14 12:38:39 上海
美亚 听
0 有用 花开花落她是谁 2021-09-07 02:53:39
听的Podcast，很有意义的project
0 有用 Akira 2021-05-26 09:37:15
我的一千零一夜终于念完啦！100th来自China很满意w 百年世界帝国的积淀没得说，视角够开阔。从object多少还是objective的，很有意思
0 有用 照叶 2020-11-29 19:28:03
BBC R4的相当精彩的Podcast。通过100件物体讲述人类历史上具有显著意义的发展变化，分析各种文明间的接触和影响，比较不同文明的共性和个性，邀请来自世界各地的学者进行解说……结尾是中国广州制造的太阳能灯和充电器。我们拥有的是一个古老的、独特的文明，但也是不断发展的人类文明的一部分。
0 有用 小文纸殿下 2020-06-07 11:52:10
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