Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's discovery of dynamite made possible the famous industrial megaprojects that transformed the countryside and defined the era, including the St. Gothard rail tunnel through the Alps, the clearing of New York harbor, the Panama Canal, and countless others. Dynamite also caused terrible injuries and great loss of life, and, in some cases, incalculable...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 乔舒亚•B.弗里曼是一位杰出的历史教授，在纽约城市大学皇后学院和研究生中心。他的早期著作包括《美利坚帝国》（American Empire）和《纽约工人阶级》（Working-Class New York）等。他住在纽约市。 . . 【译者简介】 李珂，1997年生，本科毕业于河南大学，现为白俄罗斯国立大学历史系在读研究生，民族学人类学方向。 研究问题：俄苏的车臣问题、晚期莫卧儿帝国。豆瓣主页kekede1997

A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society. We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since their beginnings, when William Blake called them "dark Satanic mills." Many factories that o...(展开全部)

What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms. The Clash of Empires ...(展开全部)

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-?ve years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture...(展开全部)

维克多•塞巴斯蒂安 记者。 著有： 《十二天：1956年革命》（TWELVE DAYS: REVOLUTION 1956 ），Weidenfeld, 2006 《1989年革命》（REVOLUTION 1989: FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE），W&N, 2009

维克多•塞巴斯蒂安 记者。 著有： 《十二天：1956年革命》（TWELVE DAYS: REVOLUTION 1956 ），Weidenfeld, 2006 《1989年革命》（REVOLUTION 1989: FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE），W&N, 2009

威廉•罗森是获奖历史著作《查士丁尼的跳蚤：瘟疫、帝国与欧洲的诞生》（Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe）一书的作者，先后在麦克米伦出版公司（Macmillan）、西蒙与舒斯特出版公司（Simon&Schuster）和自由出版社（the Free Press）做编辑和出版人长达25年。目前居住在新泽西州普林斯顿市。

Why are coffee, tobacco, and marijuana available the world over, but not peyote or qat? Why are alcohol and tobacco legal, but not heroin or cocaine? What drives the drug, and how has it come to be what it is today - a vast, chequered pattern of use and abuse, medicine and recreation, commerce and interdiction? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent me...(展开全部)

瓦茨拉夫•斯米尔（VACLAV SMIL）从事能源、环境和人口变化、食物生产及营养、技术创新、风险评估和公共政策领域的跨学科研究。他已经出版了30多本专著，发表了500多篇论文。 斯米尔是曼尼托巴大学特聘的荣誉退休教授，加拿大皇家学院（科学院）研究员，第一个被美国科学促进会授予科学和技术公众普及奖的非美籍学者。 2001年，斯米尔入选《国外政策》杂志评选的全球思想家50强。 著有《美国制造》《收割生物圈》等畅销书