LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the largest empire in history. And having risen from the rubble of the Blitz, i...(展开全部)

作者简介 西蒙•詹金斯（Simon Jenkins）爵士，生于1943年，毕业于牛津大学，英国历史学家、评论家、专栏作家、畅销书作家。他曾出版近20部著作，内容涵盖历史、政治、建筑等。他也是英国***的记者之一，为《卫报》《泰晤士报》（The Times）、《标准晚报》（London Evening Standard）、《金融时报》（Financial Times）等撰写专栏。他曾担任多份公职，包括英格兰遗产委员会副主席、英国国家信托基金的主席。 译者简介 宋佳，毕业于英国杜伦大学，翻译研究专业硕士，英国皇家特许语言家协会（CIOL）认证翻译。多次在中英政府、商界等研讨交流活动中，负责口笔译工作。在伦敦工作生活多年，曾任英国彼得森律师行（Peterson Law Associates）事务翻译，英国酷锐传媒（Creative Time Media）新...(展开全部)

LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the largest empire in history. And having risen from the rubble of the Blitz, i...(展开全部)

作者简介 西蒙•詹金斯（Simon Jenkins）爵士，生于1943年，毕业于牛津大学，英国历史学家、评论家、专栏作家、畅销书作家。他曾出版近20部著作，内容涵盖历史、政治、建筑等。他也是英国***的记者之一，为《卫报》《泰晤士报》（The Times）、《标准晚报》（London Evening Standard）、《金融时报》（Financial Times）等撰写专栏。他曾担任多份公职，包括英格兰遗产委员会副主席、英国国家信托基金的主席。 译者简介 宋佳，毕业于英国杜伦大学，翻译研究专业硕士，英国皇家特许语言家协会（CIOL）认证翻译。多次在中英政府、商界等研讨交流活动中，负责口笔译工作。在伦敦工作生活多年，曾任英国彼得森律师行（Peterson Law Associates）事务翻译，英国酷锐传媒（Creative Time Media）新...(展开全部)

Great conquerors appear in the dim light of that distant time and pass, Tushratta, King of Mitanni, who captured Nineveh, Tiglath Pileser I of Assyria who conquered Babylon. At last the Assyrians became the greatest military power of the time. Tiglath Pileser III conquered Babylon in 745 B.C. and founded what historians call the New Assyrian Empire. Iron had also come now into ...(展开全部)

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of traditional histories, which have tended to be Eurocentric, telling mankind's story through tales of Greece and Rome and the crowned heads of Europe's oldest monarchies. Here he widen...(展开全部)

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of traditional histories, which have tended to be Eurocentric, telling mankind's story through tales of Greece and Rome and the crowned heads of Europe's oldest monarchies. Here he widen...(展开全部)

In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old as art itself, for according to classical writers art was born when the outline of a human shadow thro...(展开全部)

The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche. It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped over from Normandy to the shores of Sussex. How a band of marauding warriors established some of the most powerful kingdoms in E...(展开全部)

The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche. It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped over from Normandy to the shores of Sussex. How a band of marauding warriors established some of the most powerful kingdoms in E...(展开全部)