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)
0 有用 小黄蜂 2008-08-17 23:55:52
房龙的经典之作!
0 有用 L.one 2016-10-09 10:53:50
生动流畅,充满趣味性。
0 有用 花袜子白 2011-08-24 10:38:55
一些远古文明的介绍
0 有用 胖斯拉 2007-10-04 23:41:19
这个版本翻译得太差了!
0 有用 八月的风 2018-02-05 20:04:36
一本书 给我很奇特的感觉 从远古到现代 只需要一本书就够了 真有趣
0 有用 清流 2021-11-30 19:19:48
应该叫做欧洲人的故事或者欧洲通史,不过看到成书年代也就释然了。
0 有用 ybfq715 2020-07-10 20:38:23
对于当时想要探究人类史和思想史的自己很有启发。
0 有用 花蒲刁民 2020-04-07 20:19:23
我坚信是版本问题,看得我忍无可忍,全程:哈????????说话无根据且幽默的全不在点,满口戏说,整体看下来超级不可信,天呐,简直负分啊…………
0 有用 鹰隼 2020-03-27 22:18:07
算是经典之作,将人类历史都走一遍,该读的回过头来也得读
0 有用 ex machina 2020-01-03 00:53:01
补记 2006年 封面是雅克·路易·大卫画的温泉关战役列奥尼达,没找到条目