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A History of the World in 100 Objects (2010)

de Neil MacGregor

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Traces the stories of one hundred human innovations to explain their pivotal role in shaping civilization, from weapons and the domestication of cows to currency and music.
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A great nightstand book. Can't sleep, there are many short chapters but be careful this book can become addictive. ( )
  Huba.Library | Jan 31, 2024 |
I got to like the 6th object and immediately put it down on reading something like "But why did early humans migrate to new areas? Here's what Michael Palin, who's done a lot of travelling, thinks". I'm just extremely not interested in what some random famous person thinks! Before this you have Rowan Williams saying why a carved mammoth horn is a sign of early humans getting into "the rhythm of life" and claiming that's what religion is all about. An extract of David Attenborough narrating from a TV show about how cool stone axes are. And it's like. Yeah they are but I'd rather the limited space was taken up by some actual info rather than uninformed and uninteresting musings. It's just not my sort of book I guess. I was disappointed at the limited info on each object so far and feeling the author kept loudly telling me how cool each thing is rather than letting it speak for itself.

There was also quite a bit of factual stuff that I at least felt suspicious of. For example, dating the entrance of humans to North America basically exactly to the Clovis culture which was under criticism even at publication and is a few thousands year off for sure. Claiming that there was no migration into North America after that until European arrival, when it's well accepted that the Inuit are descended from another migration thousands of years afterwards and there may possibly have been others.

Idk just didn't feel confident reading further or feel it was a book aimed at me.
  tombomp | Oct 31, 2023 |
$218, A first edition, first printing published by Allen Lane in 2010. Strangely RARE!.A fine copy in a fine unclipped wrapper. Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, narrates 100 programmes that retell humanity's history through the objects we have made.
  susangeib | Oct 29, 2023 |
This book came to my attention a few years ago when I discovered its spinoff, A History of America in 100 Objects, published by the Smithsonian. Although I added both to my list immediately, I didn't get around to reading this one until just now (glad I picked it up when I did as my library has only two copies left, and the one I hold in my hands is starting to fall apart). It's an amazing tome for lovers of history and the generally curious. I appreciated learning what it is that makes each object unique and how each is significant in world history. While I have never been to British Museum (someday!), it feels like the British Museum came, in a sense, to me. Wonderful. ( )
  ryner | Oct 14, 2023 |
Finished this last night. What a remarkable, lovely book. I can't recommend it highly enough. I feel as though it's a curator/archivist's love letter to the world. I learned quite a bit, and will definitely go back to it from time to time, but more importantly came away from it with a profound sense of the deep interconnectedness of people across space and time. ( )
  lschiff | Sep 24, 2023 |
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Neil MacGregorautor primaritotes les edicionscalculat
BBC Radio 4Col·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Bell, JasonFotògrafautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Comtesse, RahelNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Götting, WaltraudTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Holonics, NicoNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Kügow-Klenz, DetlefNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Mena, Francisco J. RamosTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Sykora, ConnyTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Sykora, JacintheTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Wirthensohn, AndreasTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Zettel, AnnabelTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Zischler, HannsSprecherautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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Telling history through things is what museums are for. (Preface: Mission Impossible)
In this book we travel back in time and across the globe, to see how we humans have shaped our world and been shaped by it over the past two million years. (Introduction)
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