书名：The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1漫画现代世界史之一
作者：Larry Gonick拉里·戈尼克
出版社名称：William Morrow Paperbacks
出版时间：2007
语种： 英文
ISBN：9780060760045
商品尺寸：18.5 x 1.8 x 23.2 cm
包装：平装
页数：260
开本：16开

The Cartoon History of the Modern World《漫画现代世界历史》的英文原版是美国知名漫画作家拉里·戈尼克（Larry Gonick）于2007年出版的作品。本书适合中学及以上水平的历史学习者、爱好者阅读。
推荐理由：
1.主要讲述了哥伦布发现新大陆之后的历史，包含“工业革命”和“美国独立战争”等重大历史事件，历史爱好者必读；
2.按照时间顺序展开讲述，故事流畅，适当加入作者个人观点，并非简简单单地叙述历史；
3.将枯燥的历史以漫画的形式展现，图画幽默、文字生动，融现代世界史知识、娱乐性的漫画及学术著作为一体，有利于培养学习兴趣；
4.阅读难度不大，使用现代英语来描述，语言通俗易懂，是很值得推荐的历史入门读物。
In this wickedly funny take on modern history, best-selling author Larry Gonik picks up where his award-winning Cartoon History of the Universe left off. This first part of The Cartoon History of the Modern World opens with the history of ancient Mexico, the arrival of Columbus in the New World, the Spanish conquest, the Portuguese empire in Asia, and the formation of the first fully global system of trade and ideas. Next comes the Protestant Reformation, the expansion of Holland and England, and the birth of modern political philosophy and science. The final section covers the competition between France and Britain in North America and culminates with a global perspective on the America Revolution and U.S. Constitution.
Reviews:
“The Cartoon History of the Modern Worldis subtle, broad, hilarious, and oddly timely—history at its most engrossing.”—Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, MIT
“Larry Gonick has done it again! He single-handedly overturns boring old “history as usual” with his patented mixture of clever comics and devastatingly funny commentary. Who else could claim that Cortes was “a glib law school dropout,” Machiavelli “ wrote a little book about politics,” or Newton “was a cranky genius”—all the while convincing us with his drawings that these are some of his historical favorites? Larry Gonick’s history is first-rate, his drawing are award winning, and the narrative is just biting and sarcastic enough to make these chronicles worth a chuckle. Highly recommended.”—Roger Brooks, Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Religious Studies, Connecticut College

The Cartoon History of the Modern World《漫画现代世界史》是纽约时报畅销书漫画作家拉里·戈尼克继Cartoon History of the Universe Series《漫画玩转全球史》系列之后创作的新作品，《漫画玩转全球史》的时间跨度为“宇宙大爆炸”至克里斯托弗·哥伦布“出海远航”寻找新大陆这段时期，而《漫画现代世界史》系列则承接了《漫画玩转全球史》的内容，沿着“发现新大陆”这个时间线继续讲述之后的历史。该系列分为两卷，本书为首卷，讲述了从哥伦布发现新大陆到美国独立战争这段时期的历史演进过程。
The Cartoon History of the Modern World is a wickedly funny take on modern history. It is essentially a complete and up–to–date course in college level Modern World History, but presented as a graphic novel. In an engaging and humorous graphic style, Larry Gonick covers the history, personalities and big topics that have shaped our universe over the past five centuries, including the Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the evolution of political, social, economic, and scientific thought, Communism, Fascism, Nazism, the Cold War, Globalization––and much more.
Volume I of the Cartoon History of the Modern World picks up from Gonick's award winning Cartoon History of the Universe Series. That series began with the Big Bang and ended with Christopher Columbus sailing for the New World. This book starts off with peoples that Columbus "discovered" and ends with the U.S. Revolution.

Larry Gonik拉里•戈尼克，美国知名漫画作家，曾是麻省理工学院（MIT）的“奈特科学新闻学者”，现为美国Muse杂志旗下的员工。他的漫画以独特的视角及叙述方式，形成了自己特殊的风格，历久而不衰。他的作品已销售100多万册，被翻译成十几种文字，代表作有The Cartoon History of the Universe《漫画玩转全球史》、The Cartoon History of the United States《漫画美国史入门》和The Cartoon Guide to Physics《漫画物理学入门》等，这些系列作品兼具知识性、趣味性，深受广大读者，特别是青少年读者的喜爱。
LARRY GONICK has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for more than thirty years, starting with Blood From a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform in 1971. He has been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and is currently staff cartoonist for Muse magazine. He has nearly one million copies of the Cartoon Guides in print.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
VOLUME 1. WAR OF THE WORLDS
VISIONARY BUNGLER
THE HALLS OF MOCTEZUMA
VOLUME 2. WHAT GOES AROUND
POTOSI
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY
GOING GLOBAL
SIKH AND MUGHAL
VOLUME 3. GOOD WORKS?
MARTIN LUTHER
PEASANT REVOLT
ZWINGLI QUICKIE
DIVORCE, ENGLISH STYLE
VIENNA AGAIN
ELECT THIS!
SPINE-STIFFENING EXERCISES
VOLUME 4. THE UNITED - OF -
LANCE SHATTERS FRANCE
LOW BLOW
YOU SAY “LEPANTO”
WEDDING BELLS
DUCTH MASTER DISASTER
MERRIE, MERRIE, QUITE CONTRARIE
WHAT’S PARIS WORTH?
AND THE WINNER IS...
ONLY A THEORY
THIRTY YEARS
VOLUME 5. “LET’S BE REASONABLE!”
CANADA
PROTESTANT VS. PROTESTANT
BEASTIE BOY
LET’S BE REASONABLE!
DR. LOCKE’S MEDICINE
FIFTY YEARS
OHIO,1754
OOPS!
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