亨德里克・威廉・房龙 (Hendrik Willem van Loon, 1882―1944) 荷南美国作家和历史学家。1911年获德国慕尼黑大学博土学位，毕业后曾先后从事多种职业，但在写作方面取得了最令人瞩目的成就。代表作包括《荷兰共和国衰亡史》、 《人类的故事》、 《房龙地理》、《发明的故事》、 《宽容》等二十余部，均有相当大的影响，饮誉世界。其作品先后在荷兰、德国、法国、瑞典、日本、中国等二十多个国家翻译出版。
Carthage was a plutocracy and the real power of the state lay in the hands of a dozen big ship-owners and mine-owners and merchants who met in the back room of an office and regarded their common Fatherland as a business enterprise which ought to yield them a decent profit. (查看原文)
Of course, such a "plutocracy" was forever at the mercy of the crowd. As long as there was plenty of work and wages were high, the majority of the citizens were quite contented, allowed their "betters" to rule them and asked no embarrassing questions. But when no ships left the harbor, when no ore was brought to the smelting-ovens, when dockworkers and stevedores were thrown out of employment, then there were grumblings and there was a demand that the popular assembly be called together as in the olden days when Carthage had been a self-governing republic. (查看原文)
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房龙 作者
Friedrich
广西师范大学出版社2004版
十九世纪
中国档案出版社2001版
杜君立
中信出版社2017版
乔麦
陕西师范大学出版社2002版
丛丛
清华大学出版社2007版
0 有用 顾三小姐 2013-01-06 18:40:14
不喜欢
0 有用 Nee 2007-10-01 17:28:46
也许我看这本书太老勒
0 有用 cassie 2008-04-08 11:33:20
不知不觉中全部看完。
0 有用 fishmayfly 2009-08-07 11:00:07
以后还是找那些大出版社的版本吧，唉……
0 有用 鲁皮 2016-10-23 11:19:08
比较概述性的历史讲解，但是说的基本都是西方的历史，并且类似英国史这里说的好快，有些地方感觉没说清楚...不过还是一本挺有意思的故事书啦！可能是出版年代早的关系，书里错别字比较多，图片印刷也不清晰....