The world would end in 1492—so the prophets, soothsayers, and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. Ours began. In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe FernÁndez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to that single, fateful year. Everything changed in 1492: the way power and wealth were distributed around the globe, the way major reli...(展开全部)

韩森（Valerie Hansen），耶鲁大学历史学教授，著名汉学家。著有《开放的帝国：1600 年前的中国历史》《传统中国日常生活中的协商：中古契约研究》《变迁之神——南宋时期的民间信仰》《丝绸之路新史》等汉学专著。 1979年，韩森毕业于哈佛大学，1987年获得宾夕 法尼亚大学博士学位，1988年加入耶鲁大学担任助理教授，1998年晋升为教授。她在耶鲁大学教授中国史和世界史已有三十余年。 译者简介： 刘云军，北京师范大学历史学博士。现为河北大学宋史研究中心副教授，目前从事宋代文献的整理与研究，海外汉学（侧重宋代）的译介。已译《权力关系：宋代中国的家族、地位与国家》《跨越门闾：宋代福建女性的日常生活》《剑桥中国宋代史》（上卷，合译）、《公元1000年：全球化的开端》《宋帝国的危机与维系：信息、领土与人际网络》《宋元社会变迁下的性别与贞节观》等。

In history, myth often abides. It was long assumed that the centuries immediately prior to 1000 AD were lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn’t yet discovered North America, that the farthest anyone had traveled over sea was the Vikings’ invasion of Britain. But how, then, to explain the presence of blonde-haired, blue-ey...(展开全部)

韩森（Valerie Hansen），耶鲁大学历史学教授，著名汉学家。著有《开放的帝国：1600 年前的中国历史》《传统中国日常生活中的协商：中古契约研究》《变迁之神——南宋时期的民间信仰》《丝绸之路新史》等汉学专著。 1979年，韩森毕业于哈佛大学，1987年获得宾夕 法尼亚大学博士学位，1988年加入耶鲁大学担任助理教授，1998年晋升为教授。她在耶鲁大学教授中国史和世界史已有三十余年。 译者简介： 刘云军，北京师范大学历史学博士。现为河北大学宋史研究中心副教授，目前从事宋代文献的整理与研究，海外汉学（侧重宋代）的译介。已译《权力关系：宋代中国的家族、地位与国家》《跨越门闾：宋代福建女性的日常生活》《剑桥中国宋代史》（上卷，合译）、《公元1000年：全球化的开端》《宋帝国的危机与维系：信息、领土与人际网络》《宋元社会变迁下的性别与贞节观》等。

In history, myth often abides. It was long assumed that the centuries immediately prior to 1000 AD were lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn’t yet discovered North America, that the farthest anyone had traveled over sea was the Vikings’ invasion of Britain. But how, then, to explain the presence of blonde-haired, blue-ey...(展开全部)

Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set the course for the bloodiest century in human history. In the longer run, the...(展开全部)

On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was ‘to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas’ and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would ...(展开全部)

On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was ‘to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas’ and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would ...(展开全部)

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - BEST GARDENING BOOKS OF 2020 - Sunday Times, Times 'Every page a joy.' Nigel Slater 'From a very early age I loved the countryside as much as any garden and was fascinated by the life that I saw all around me from trees, wildflowers, birds, insects and mammals. In a sense this book has been over sixty years in gestation. I have kept notebooks and j...(展开全部)