Wereldgeschiedenis 5-6|Aula,J.M. Roberts 902745440X

||boek: Wereldgeschiedenis 5-6|De grote versnelling|AULA 675

||door: Aula, J.M. Roberts

||taal: nl
||jaar: 1981
||druk: 1e druk
||pag.: 205p
||opm.: pocket|zo goed als nieuw

||isbn: 90-274-5440-X
||code: 2:000051

Dit is enkel deel 5 van de 6-delige uitgave!

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A sweeping history of the world traces civilization from the early hominids to the present, discussing such milestones as the emergence of Mesopotamian civilization, early arts and engineering firsts, exploration, the French Revolution, and many other topics.

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From the evolution of Homo sapiens to the exploration of space, the vast landscape of human history appears in J.M. Roberts's History of the World. Deftly written and evocatively illustrated, this book offers an outstanding one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past.

In a truly remarkable work of compression and synthesis, Roberts sweeps through thousands of years of history, weaving the stories of empires, arts, religion, economics, and science into his lucid narrative. Beginning with the early hominids, he swiftly and authoritatively brings the story up through the emergence of Mesopotamian civilizations and ancient Egypt. Here, too, is comprehensive coverage of the Indian and Chinese civilizations ("For two and a half thousand years," he points out, "there has been a Chinese nation using a Chinese language"), as well as developments in Africa and South America. Aided by photographs of key archaelogical finds (such as monumental Egyptian statues, Peruvian medallions, and Celtic jewelry), Roberts clearly explains the early arts, engineering, and religion. He also carefully ties in changing economics--such as trade routes and developments in agriculture and manufacturing--making clear their importance for the history of politics and changing societies. The story leaps ahead, through the Roman Empire, the explosive arrival of Islam, the rise and fall of samurai rule in Japan, the medieval kingdoms of sub-Saharan Africa, the Mongol conquests, and the early modern expansion of Europe across the globe. American independence, the French Revolution, the colonial empires, Japan's startling modernization, and the World Wars follow in turn, accompanied by discussions of scientific and technical breakthroughs.

With informative maps, photographs, and reproductions of important artwork (some in full color), Roberts clearly explains the impact of the key individuals and the major influences on history the world over, down to the era of an integrated global economy and the fall of the U.S.S.R. Vividly written and beautifull illustrated, History of the World offers the finest, most readable one-volume survey available today.

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From School Library Journal

YA-This scholarly resource has much to offer researchers. Roberts begins with a discussion of the prehuman past and continues up until mid-1990. The text is divided into eight "books," each of which is organized around a central focus and begins with a brief overview. These books are then subdivided into shorter chapters. "The First Civilizations" covers several centers of complex, early urban civilization-including Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China-and discusses areas, such as sub-Saharan Africa, which (for reasons the author explains) did not develop in the same way. He relates how factors such as climate and location affected the development of some cultures. "The Age of Diverging Traditions" investigates medieval European civilization as well as others that thrived at roughly the same time-the Islamic world, Imperial China, India, and Byzantium. Perhaps the biggest challenge the author confronts is "The Latest Age," which offers insightful commentary on recent events. A chapter detailing the early steps that resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union is followed by an epilogue discussing current trends and dangers facing civilization in the future. Numerous black-and-white illustrations, some full-color plates, well-drawn maps, and an extensive index are included.

Carolyn E. Gecan, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA - Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

• "Very thorough." --Olivia Constable, Notre Dame University
• "This would be an excellent text for a one or even two semester world history survey." --William Bakken, Rochester Community and Technical College
• "Epic yet readable, perfect for those who find History of the Universe too daunting to crack." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
• "It is always something of an amazement that anyone would be courageous enough to attempt such a work - and in fewer than 1,000 pages - but Roberts clearly succeeds with a steady, clear-headed style that carries the reader along through the centuries." --Chicago Tribune
• "Beginning with a lesson in geology and the first sighting of species Homo sapiens, this highly readable, soberly conceived book unabashedly emphasizes the annals of Western civilization, without slighting the importance of Eastern, Arican, and Middle Eastern civilizations. Intelligently organized, insightful, and balanced, it makes a fine addition to any library." --The Christian Science Monitor
• "The author is splendidly undogmatic, yet states with unassuming certainty the conclusions of several decades' work by archaeologists, and indeed of several millenia's work by other learned men... It is greatly to John Roberts's credit that after a generation on the Oxford tutorial treadmill he can write so lively and so continuously interesting a book." --Economist
• "Roberts writes well, with style and verve and wit." --Library Journal

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Almost anthropology [2001-07-03]

I really enjoyed the first 95% of this book. J.M. Roberts sets a great stage for the big sweeping moves of history and helps you understand how environment, pre-history and culture all helped to shape the actions of whole peoples. (An excellent companion read to this book is Eric Wolfe's Europe and the People Without History, which gets away from Robert's Eurocentrism.)

I have to say, I didn't like his analysis of the 20th century, nor his political slant. It may not be his fault: a chapter or so on a segment of the past for which we have so much information doesn't do anything justice and leaves a lot unsaid. Perhaps Roberts should have capped it with WW1.
Regardless, the first majority of the book is well worth it.

J. Wiest [source: https--www.amazon.com]

An Awful Book [2020-10-31]

I looked in the book and couldn't deal with it.

celexana [source: https--www.amazon.com]

A Life-Reading Book! [2020-02-12]

I will probably be reading this book for the rest of my life, but I really like it!

Very informative!!

M. Pryor Herndon [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Great book! [2017-01-18]

Large, extensive book on the history of the world

Amazon Customer [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Like Taking Candy From a Baby [2014-07-24]

Probably the best history book that was ever made! It isn't your dull, typical history book! It states things in a chronological order that is logical! It shows you things your history teacher would have never dreamed of showing you! I sat down and read over half of it like I would any novel...people now get annoyed at the random history facts I can spew...so in a way this book ruins your life...you know so much about your ancestors that you want to tell EVERYONE! Then they all begin to think you are a know-it-all nerd and they shun you. But HEY! you know that Ancient Greeks encouraged homosexuality!

YAY KNOWLEDGE! Just get the book, its great! A couple of my friends have it and they love it too! Doesn't take a christian look on things, extremely unbiased!

ThatWhiteChick [source: https--www.amazon.com]

--- Over (foto 2): Aula ---

De Aula-reeks is een populair-wetenschappelijke boekenreeks die in 1957 werd gestart door Uitgeverij Het Spectrum in Utrecht als wetenschappelijkere versie van de Prisma Pockets naar het voorbeeld van de Engelse Pelican Books. De reeks omvatte ruim 700 pockets over mens- en natuurwetenschappen, kunst en filosofie.

Het betreft de volgende uitgaven:

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--- Over (foto 3): J.M. Roberts ---

John Morris Roberts CBE (14 April 1928 - 30 May 2003), often known as J. M. Roberts, was a British historian with significant published works. From 1979 to 1985 he was vice chancellor of the University of Southampton, and from 1985 to 1994, Warden of Merton College, Oxford. He was also well known as the author and presenter of the BBC TV series The Triumph of the West, first broadcast in 1985.

Roberts was born in Bath, the son of a department store worker and educated at Taunton School. He won a scholarship to Keble College, Oxford, and took a first in Modern History in 1948. After National Service, he was elected a prize fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he completed a doctoral thesis on the Italian republic set up during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte.

In 1953 Roberts was elected a fellow and tutor in Modern History at Merton College, Oxford, and in the same year went as a Commonwealth Fund fellow to Princeton and Yale, where his interests broadened beyond European history. He returned to America three times as a visiting professor in the 1960s. In 1964 Roberts lectured for the British Council in India, and from 1966 to 1977 Roberts served as joint editor of the English Historical Review.

From 1979 to 1985 Roberts was vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton where he felt obliged to make unpopular cuts (Classics and Theology). Roberts could be an intimidating figure, even a "terrifying" one, but was described by colleagues as "a nice man, a very nice man, underneath it all".

Roberts did not hesitate to take on ambitious subjects, and in 1976 he published The History of the World, regularly updated in later years and still in print today. The Times Literary Supplement described Roberts as "master of the broad brush-stroke", and in 1985 Roberts wrote and presented the thirteen-part BBC television series The Triumph of the West, a series which painted a broad canvas but avoided simplistic solutions, encouraging the audience to think and reach its own conclusions. Later he served as historical advisor to the BBC series People's Century.

From 1985 to 1994 Roberts was Warden of Merton College, Oxford. At Merton he became an important figure in the expansion and development of postgraduate studies. He also took up other roles, serving as a governor of the BBC from 1988 to 93 and as a trustee of Rhodes House from 1988 to 94. In 1994 he retired and returned to his native Somerset.

In 1996, Roberts was appointed CBE for his 'services to education and history' and made a Cavalier of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1991.

Roberts died in 2003, at Roadwater, Somerset, shortly after completing the fourth revised edition of his The New History of the World.

The John Roberts Memorial Fund was established in his honour at Merton College in 2003, with the aim of increasing the financial support available to undergraduate and graduate students. The college hoped that the first recipient would be a history graduate.

When Roberts' The Mythology of the Secret Societies was republished in 2008, the back cover contained the following message: "We are living at a time when conspiracy theories are rife and the notion of secret plans for world domination under the guise of religious cults or secret societies is perhaps considered more seriously than ever."

Personal life

On 10 September 1960, at Milton Abbas, Roberts married (Mariabella) Rosalind Gardiner. The marriage was dissolved in 1964. At Oxford on 29 August 1964 Roberts married Judith Cecilia Mary Armitage, a schoolteacher, and they had one son and two daughters.

Selected works

• Europe: 1880-1945 (London: Longmans, 1967. Second, corrected and revised edition, 1970. Third edition, 2000 ISBN 978-0-582-35745-7)
• The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1972; reprint edition, Watkins, 2008 ISBN 978-1-905857-44-9)
• History of the World (New York: Knopf, 1976). ISBN 978-0-394-49675-7
• Revolution and Improvement: The Western World, 1775-1847 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976). ISBN 978-0-297-77048-0
• The French Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978). ISBN 978-0-19-289069-6
• An Illustrated World History (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980. 8 volumes)
• The Age of Upheaval: The World since 1914 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981). ISBN 978-0-14-064008-3
• The Triumph of the West: The Origin, Rise, and Legacy of Western Civilization (London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1985). ISBN 978-0-563-20070-3
• A Short History of the World (1993). ISBN 978-0-19-511504-8
• A History of Europe (New York: 1996). ISBN 978-0-7139-9204-5
• The Age of Diverging Traditions (London: Time-Life, 1998). ISBN 978-0-7054-3660-1
• The Age of Revolution (London: Time-Life, 1998). ISBN 978-0-7054-3690-8
• Eastern Asia and Classical Greece (London: Time-Life, 1998). ISBN 978-0-7054-3640-3
• The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century (1999). ISBN 978-0-14-027631-2
• Twentieth Century: A History of the World From 1901 to the Present (London: Allen Lane, 1999). ISBN 978-0-7139-9257-1
• The New History of the World (6th Edition, 2013 ISBN 978-0-19-521927-2)

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JM Roberts - Distinguished historian with a positive world view [2003-06-06]

For his ability to grasp and communicate the full sweep of the past, John Roberts, who has died aged 75, must rank as the leading historical mind of his generation. With its confidence in both judgment and prediction, his History Of The World, first published by Hutchinson in 1976 and now in its fourth (Penguin) edition, summed up much of the appeal of this lively, wide-ranging man.

Roberts took a generally positive note about the future, arguing that humanity faced the challenge of the ice ages with far poorer resources, both intellectual and technological, than those it can deploy today against climate change: "The human being remains a reflective and tool-making animal and we are still a long way from exhausting the possibilities of that fact."

As with his The Twentieth Century (1999), there was a willingness to engage with recent history, but also an ability to contextualise it. Roberts offered a qualified account of recent American power, suggesting that the unresolved nature of ethnic and social problems was an important question mark against its achievement, and that as the presidencies of Bill Clinton unrolled, the United States squandered the possibilities of world leadership that had come with the end of the cold war.

His sense of continuity led him to be sceptical about the notion of fundamental change stemming from 9/11. In his view, historical inertia played a major role, and the historical forces that moulded thought and behaviour were laid down centuries before ideas like capitalism and communism were invented.

Roberts's stimulating and thoughtful engagement with broad themes was not restricted to his writing. He was an impressive enabler of the work of others, not least as general editor of Purnell's History Of The Twentieth Century (1967-69) and the New Oxford History Of England (from 1979), projects that exemplified his range and ability to spot and nurture talent.

He was also one of the best of the tele-dons. His BBC-TV series (and book) The Triumph Of The West (1985) provided insight into the "world question" - as well as enabling him to travel. Far from offering attractive simplicities, he treated his audience as intelligent, and offered food for thought.

At the same time as he wrote and presented this series, Roberts served as vice-chancellor of Southampton University (1979-85), providing able guidance in a difficult period and moving the university towards new opportunities and fresh expansion. From the historian's perspective, the development of the university's manuscript holdings - with the deposit of the Wellington papers - was particularly important, and one in which Roberts took great pride.

Born in Bath and educated at Taunton school, Roberts went to Keble College, Oxford, in 1946, graduating with first-class honours in modern history. After national service (1949-51), he was elected a prize fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and wrote his doctoral thesis on the Cisalpine republics of Italy in the Napoleonic era. In 1953-54, he was a Commonwealth Fund fellow at Princeton and Yale universities.

Between 1954 and 1979, as a fellow at Merton College, Oxford, he was part of a formidable group of scholars and teachers responsible for the education of a large number of historians now holding posts across the world. During this period, he was also a member of Princeton's Institute For Advanced Study (1960) and, in 1964, lectured for the British Council in India.

In 1966, with Richard Cobb, he co-edited French Revolution Documents. Europe 1880-1945 - now in its third edition - was published the following year. The Mythology Of The Secret Societies (1972) was an important and innovative study of rightwing paranoia in the European crisis of the 1790s, and was followed, in 1973, by The Paris Commune From The Right.

Roberts ensured a very good succession when he moved on to Southampton, as a result of which Merton remains one of the leading Oxbridge colleges for the study of history. Indeed, he returned to the college as warden in 1984, remaining until 1994 as one of the key figures in the development of Oxford postgraduate studies.

These activities would be enough for most distinguished academics, but Roberts was also joint editor of the English Historical Review (1966-77), a BBC governor (1988-93) and a trustee of Rhodes House (1988-94). His other books include The French Revolution (1978) and A History Of Europe (1996).

Roberts was properly forceful and a striking personality. Amid a room full of fellows, he asked every single question when I was interviewed for a senior scholarship at Merton in 1979 - and they were all searching ones. A Southampton connection told me that it was initially terrifying to have to go and see Roberts as vice chancellor, but that he was "a nice man, a very nice man, underneath it all".

In retirement, he returned to his native west country. He is survived by his wife Judith, their son and two daughters.

John Morris Roberts, historian, born April 14 1928; died May 30 2003

Jeremy Black [source: https--www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jun/06/guardianobituaries.highereducation]

J.M. Roberts was, until his retirement in 1994, Warden at Merton College, Oxford University, and is the General Editor of The Short Oxford History of the Modern World and The New Oxford History of England.

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J.M. Roberts, CBE, published The Penguin History of the World in 1976 to immediate acclaim. His other major books include The Paris Commune from the Right, The Triumph of the West (which was also a successful television series), The Penguin History of Europe and The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century. He died in 2003.

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