01663nam a22002177a 4500 20260729110112.0 260729m20081985|||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780300143324 PK-LaUMT 909 GOM-L Gombrich, E. H. 14391 A little history of the world / E. H. Gombrich ; translated by Caroline Mustill New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008 xix, 284 p. Little Histories "In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success. It is now available in eighteen languages across the world." "Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. A Little History of the World presents his lively and involving history to English-language readers for the first time." "In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of humanity from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements and an acute witness to its frailties."--Jacket Eng World history 10042 Mustill, Caroline 14392 BK 141734 141734 0 0 0 0 01 01 2026-07-29 0 909 GOM-L 153619 2026-07-29 11:01:25 2026-07-29 BK