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A Little History of the World (Little Histories)
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15 Reddit comments about A Little History of the World (Little Histories):

u/jwmida · 10 pointsr/dancarlin

E.H. Gombrich- "A Little History of the World"

I used use chapters of this book as supplementals when I taught middle school history. I really like it. I think it keeps to the subject, is well written, and is accessible to children. Only issue is that it's eurocentric, but you can't win them all.

u/Zero_Risk · 8 pointsr/history

At 15 years old he should be able to handle any sort of casual history book. A text book probably isn't up his alley, but when I was 15 I bought a Philosophy for Dummies book to help me understand some topics a teacher didn't clarify well enough for me. I was hooked on those For Dummies books for awhile. They're vaguely humorous and they explain topics in an easy to digest, non-tiring way.


Aside from that, A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich, and A Brief History of Time and the Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking were both wonderfully fun books that might appeal to his history and science interest without being belittling.

u/bagpipeninja · 6 pointsr/books

I certainly consider A Little History of the World an essential read. It's basically a summary of the human history, from cavemen to the end of WWI over 300 easily read pages. He touches on all major events, and touches upon most religions in a very easy to follow and fun writing style. It's essentially a World History for dummies if you will, but is still a very interesting read. one of those books I plan to buy future kids. Highly recommended! he also has a similar book - The Story of Art - but this is a lot bigger and more advanced, requires an actual interest in art history.

u/munchingman · 2 pointsr/books

Never read it but a quick search brought up this

u/LordoftheScheisse · 2 pointsr/politics

I don't have much to add, except that I finished rereading ASHoNE for like the sixth time last night. If you enjoyed it, I'd also recommend E.H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World. From what I recall, it's less science-focused, but just as engaging.

u/neverabadidea · 2 pointsr/books

Gombich's A little history of the world is aimed at kids, but a fun read that goes up to WW2

u/JabbaCat · 1 pointr/norge

Havnet tilfeldig innom Tronsmo i dag, de har et vell av bøker så klart.
Noen har kjøpt denne til meg, den er superkort og var skrevet for ungdom midt på 30-tallet, men er visst en veldig fin liten oversiktsbok og en smule legendarisk som verdenshistorie i kortversjon: A Little History of the World - Ernst Gombrich
Kanskje en kuriositet men skal lese den nå, virker fin. Finnes på norsk også, feks [her.] (https://www.tronsmo.no/bok/9788202521219/EN_LITEN_VERDENSHISTORIE)


Ville bladd litt gjennom Tronsmo sine kategorier forresten - ikke alt i bokhandelen finnes på nettsiden, men ganske mye.

Denne gav meg lyst til å lese klassisk engelsk historie, den virker gjennomført og underholdende: https://www.amazon.co.uk/9780714872353-Illustrated-England-Christopher-Hibbert/dp/0714872350/

Adam Hochschild har jo skrevet noen populære bøker, mest kjent kanskje King Leopolds Ghost - om den brutale belgiske kongen og Kongo under belgisk styre.


Tenkte finne en bok om silkeveien en gang, men ikke kommet så langt.

Har hørt at Salt - A World History av Mark Kurlansky er bra.


Og: Jeg fikk nettopp denne i gave, Andrea Wulf - The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldts New World.
https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Nature-Alexander-Humboldts-World/dp/038535066X

Humboldt var med på å forme hva vi tenker på som natur, han dro på mange ekspedisjoner og var svært berømt i sin samtid. Navnet hans er jo også knyttet til idealer om læring og dannelse, Darwin var stor fan av Humboldt. Det kan du lese en snutt om her https://beagleproject.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/darwin-on-humboldt/


Av andre ting i samme gate er dette en interessant skjebne, handler om Maria Sybilla Merian som i 1699 (!) i en alder av 52 tok med seg datteren og seilte fra Amsterdam, over Atlanterhavet til Surinam - for å utforske og illustrere planter og insekter. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1845114310/ Lenge før Humboldt og Darwin. Fascinerende at det i det hele tatt var mulig for henne.

u/old_dog_new_trick · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

A Little History of the World by Gombrich. Original version was written in German for young adults back in 1937 and was rewritten and published in English in the 2000s with an additional chapter addressing the author's own escape from the Holocaust. One of the best general history books I have read.

u/boholikeyou · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

I've been collecting the books in the Little History series.

I'd start with A Little History of the World, and there are ones on the United States, economics, philosophy, science, religion, and more.

Check 'em out: https://littlehistory.org/the-books/

u/karma-toes · 1 pointr/books

The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich. Passionate, precise, a clear and accessible view of thousands of years of art history. Alternatively, by way of introduction to the author, he has penned the informative A Little History of The World in a bright and accessible style that nobody could resist.

u/el_tonio · 1 pointr/Christianity

If you can pick up a copy of E. H Gombrich "A little history of the world". He attempts to explain history from a neutral point, I found his sections of the appearance of religions really interesting and he manages in 5-10 pages to explain their cores really well. Also on the science, I am a scientist, the course of action is to be actively skeptical about everything, try to be less literal with the bible and more application based

u/katadotis · 1 pointr/IWantToLearn

If you like reading this book would be a perfect and fun start
A Little History of the World

u/Rieuxx · 1 pointr/history

A nice, general overview for this sort of thing is

Gombrich's "A brief history of the world"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-History-World-Ernst-Gombrich/dp/030014332X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314137210&sr=8-1

But any such book has got to be a diving off point. Something *like" the 'bibliotherapy' program offers by school of life would be great for this, though this happens to be London based.


u/Drgrant · 1 pointr/AskHistorians

I'm currently reading this book. It seems to be a good read.