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Początki państwowości - cover

Początki państwowości

Piotr Kotlarz

Publisher: e-bookowo.pl

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Summary

Przez prawie dwadzieścia lat nauczałem historii w szkołach, głównie liceach. Przez cały ten okres śledziłem rozwój tej nauki, poznawałem nowe, dotyczące kolejnych zagadnień, prace. Dopiero jednak pisząc tę książkę dostrzegłem jak wielką potęgą jest Internet. To dzięki niemu zyskujemy znacznie szybszy niż wcześniej dostęp do najnowszych badań, to na jego forach miliony ludzi dokonuje analizy poprzednich badań, pojawiają się nowe hipotezy.
Dziś napisanie dziejów świata możliwe jest właściwie tylko przez wieloosobowe zespoły, specjalistów od różnych epok i regionów. Taką świadomość miał zresztą już w latach dwudziestych XX wieku Herbert George Wells, który i swoje "Dzieje…" chciał pisać wspólnie z ówczesnymi historykami brytyjskich uczelni i dopiero nie mogąc nakłonić ich do współpracy sam napisał to dzieło. Praca ta zajęła mu niewiele ponad rok. Cóż, wiedza historyczna wówczas była znacznie mniejsza, m.in. i z tego powodu dzieło Wellsa, jest niestety bardzo powierzchowne.
Mógłbym jak Wells, choć bardziej skutecznie, podjąć się próby realizacji tego projektu tworząc szerszy zespół, odrzuciłem jednak ten pomysł. Mówiąc szczerze, po prostu nie stać mnie na taką inicjatywę, a od czasów Wellsa podobne zadanie podjęły już różne ośrodki badawcze i tworzenie kolejnej tego typu pracy mijałoby się z celem[1]. Uznałem, bowiem, że tylko całościowe spojrzenie na dzieje przez jedną osobę umożliwia znalezienie w nich pewnych trendów.
W poniższej książce omawiam zaledwie początki naszej historii. Tę, my historycy ograniczamy do czasów od powstania pisma. To dość sztuczna cezura, z czasem rozwoju historii – jako nauki – wciąż zresztą przesuwana, gdyż ślady pisma, jego początków, odnajdywane są dla okresów nawet o kilka tysiącleci wcześniejszych. Warto tu jednak o niej przypomnieć, tym bardziej, że to pismo stało się tym czynnikiem, który znacząco przyczynił się do zachowania naszej pamięci, a co za tym idzie do rozwoju cywilizacji.
Prezentowana książka jest dopiero drugą z zamierzonego przeze mnie projektu napisania dziejów świata. Obejmuje prawie dwa tysiąclecia, od początku III tysiąclecia p.n.e. do końca II tysiąclecia p.n.e., jeszcze w tym półroczu wydam trzecią z tego cyklu obejmującą okres nieco krótszy, bo tylko około ośmiu wieków pierwszego tysiąclecia p.n.e. poświeconą początkom idei imperializmu. Kryterium jakim kierowałem się wybierając takie cezury są formy organizacyjne przyjmowane przez społeczeństwa w tych latach. Poniższy poświęciłem początkom państwowości. Zamierzałem w prezentowanych tomach (również w pierwszym tomie z tego cyklu w ”Narodzinach cywilizacji”) ukazać rozwój cywilizacji, w tym również idei, a za jedne z ważniejszych wśród nich uważam formy organizacji państw, ale też idee wolności, równości i własności. Nie wiem, czy mi się to udało? Zresztą dopiero kończę trzy pierwsze tomy. Wyrażam w nich wiele nowych hipotez, próbuję znaleźć w omawianych dziejach jakiś kierunek, zbudować jakąś historiozofię.
Efekt moich przemyśleń będą mogli Państwo ocenić sami po lekturze tych książek. Cztery następne są jeszcze na etapie bardzo wstępnym (książkę pt. „Stracony czas imperiów” wydam pod koniec drugiego półrocza tego roku), ale już dziś mogę stwierdzić, że pewne założenia historiozoficzne, które wyraziłem już w „Narodzinach cywilizacji”, okazały się zasadne. Praktycznie do dziś nie dokonałem w nich istotnych zmian.
 
Available since: 04/05/2022.

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