【作者简介】 托比•格林（Toby Green），英国历史学家、伦敦国王学院葡语非洲历史和文化高级讲师，现担任英国国家学术院非洲历史资料委员会主席，撰写了大量有关非洲早期现代历史和殖民时代非洲奴隶制的作品。 【译者简介】 郭建龙，自由作家、社会观察家，曾任《21世纪经济报道》记者，已出版《穿越非洲两百年》《汴京之围》，以及“帝国密码三部曲”“亚洲三部曲”等作品。

【作者简介】 托比•格林（Toby Green），英国历史学家、伦敦国王学院葡语非洲历史和文化高级讲师，现担任英国国家学术院非洲历史资料委员会主席，撰写了大量有关非洲早期现代历史和殖民时代非洲奴隶制的作品。 【译者简介】 郭建龙，自由作家、社会观察家，曾任《21世纪经济报道》记者，已出版《穿越非洲两百年》《汴京之围》，以及“帝国密码三部曲”“亚洲三部曲”等作品。

By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least...(展开全部)

威廉•麦克尼尔（William H. McNeill，1917—2016），知名历史学家、全球史研究奠基人、世界历史学科的“现代开创者”。芝加哥大学荣誉退休教授，曾担任美国历史学会主席、美国世界史学会主席。在全球史方面的研究卓然有成，德高望重，与斯宾格勒、汤因比齐名，被誉为“20世纪对历史进行世界性解释的巨人”，开辟了一个西方世界史学的新时代。 1963年，威廉•麦克尼尔以一部《西方的兴起：人类共同体史》一举成名，并因此获得美国国家图书奖。在长达六十余年的学术生涯中，麦克尼尔笔耕不辍，著作等身，迄今已出版30多部作品。1996年，威廉•麦克尼尔因“在欧洲文化、社会和社会科学领域里做出的杰出贡献”荣获伊拉斯谟奖。2009年，美国总统奥巴马为威廉•麦克尼尔颁授国家人文勋章，以表彰其在人文科学研究方面所做出的卓越贡献。 威廉•麦克尼尔毕生追求博大宽宏的视野...(展开全部)

In the late Iron Age, Rome was a small collection of huts arranged over a few hills. By the third century BC, it had become a large and powerful city, with monumental temples, public buildings and grand houses. It had conquered the whole of Italy and was poised to establish an empire. But how did it accomplish this historic transformation? This book explores the development of ...(展开全部)

In the late Iron Age, Rome was a small collection of huts arranged over a few hills. By the third century BC, it had become a large and powerful city, with monumental temples, public buildings and grand houses. It had conquered the whole of Italy and was poised to establish an empire. But how did it accomplish this historic transformation? This book explores the development of ...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 凯瑟琳·洛马斯，英国杜伦大学古典学与古代历史荣誉研究员，著有《罗马意大利，公元前338—公元200年：原始材料》《罗马与西部希腊人，公元前350—公元200年：南意大利的征服与文化适应》，以及许多关于罗马早期历史的图书章节。合作编辑《罗马世界中的种族创造和身份认同》《罗马意大利的城市社会》等。 【译者简介】 王晨，毕业于上海交通大学，译作有《古典传统》《教化》《罗马元老院与人民》《黑死病》《金与铁》《论欧洲》《拷问法国大革命》《破碎的生活》等。

"PPPP ...To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory and practice into a compelling and coherent narrative is a fine achievement ...What strikes the reader [most] are Shorter's storytelling skills, his ability to conjure up the personalities of the psychiatrists who shaped the discipline and the conditions under which they and their patients lived."--Ray Monk The Mail on Sunday...(展开全部)

The definitive general history of the Zionist movement, by one of the most distinguished historians of our time. Walter Laqueur traces Zionism from its beginnings—with the emancipation of European Jewry from the ghettos in the wake of the French Revolution—to 1948, when the Zionist dream became a reality. He describes the contributions of such notable figures as Benjamin Disra...(展开全部)

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and ...(展开全部)