内容简介······
轮子、马镫、弓箭、火药和帆船,在历史的时间线上,每一个器物都有它值得诉说的故事,它们引发国家变革,让不同的文明之间发生碰撞,因此形成了人类的文明史,而历史的神秘和趣味也在于此。
本书以技术变迁这个细节为主轴,将那些改变人类历史的物质和技术,放回原来的现场,让中国重新回到世界的场景,逐一复盘历史的起承转合。比如轮子,从移动的那一刻开始,它就是一项真正伟大的发明,不但拓展了人们曾经用双脚定义的空间,甚至使人离开地面,飞上蓝天。作为道路的产物,轮子导致了征服与奴役,权力借助轮子孕育了帝国,轮子也成为帝国的象征。可以说,轮子使人类拥有了超越所有动物的速度,轮子文化则带给人类一场巨大的思想启蒙。
作者简介······
杜君立,关中人,通识历史写作者。主要作品包括:《历史的细节》(五卷本)、《现代的历程》、《新食货志》、《历史的慰藉》等。其中《现代的历程》曾获得2016年华文好书评委会特别奖,“第十二届文津图书奖”推荐图书。
Content introduction
Wheels, stirrups, bows and arrows, gunpowder and sailing ships, in the historical timeline, each artifact has its own story worth telling, they triggered national changes, made different civilizations collide, and thus formed the history of human civilization, and the mystery and interest of history is also here.
This book takes the details of technological change as the main axis, and puts the materials and technologies that have changed human history back to the original scene, so that China can return to the scene of the world, and review the beginning and end of history one by one. The wheel, for example, from the moment it moves, is a truly great invention, not only expanding the space once defined by people's feet, but even enabling people to lift themselves off the ground and fly into the blue sky. As a product of the road, the wheel led to conquest and slavery, power nurtured the empire through the wheel, and the wheel became the symbol of the empire. It can be said that the wheel enables human beings to have a speed beyond all animals, and the wheel culture brings a huge ideological enlightenment to human beings.
About the author
Du Junli, Guanzhong native, general history writer. His main works include: Details of History (five volumes), Modern Course, New Food Records, Consolations of History, etc. Among them, "The Course of Modern" has won the 2016 Chinese Good Book Jury Special Award and the "12th Wenjin Book Award" recommended book.