The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world s first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something a mythic character, especially in the United States. From the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere s ride to raise the countryside of New England against the m...(展开全部)

With apologies to Hegel, Marx, and Lenin, the basic unit of modern society is neither the state, nor the commune, nor the party; it is the company. From this bold premise, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge chart the rise of one of history’s great catalysts for good and evil. In a “fast-paced and well-written” work (Forbes), the authors reveal how innovations such as limit...(展开全部)

[英]约翰·米克尔思韦特，《经济学人》杂志资深记者，毕业于牛津大学，作品遍及《纽约时报》《金融时报》《华尔街日报》《卫报》等主流媒体。 [英]阿德里安·伍尔德里奇，《经济学人》杂志资深记者，毕业于牛津大学，作品遍及《华盛顿邮报》《外交政策》《金融时报》《泰晤士报文学增刊》等主流媒体。

罗伯托•西尔文特，美国霍普国际大学政治与社会伦理学教授。 丹尼•哈方，美国当代知名的社会主义活动家、作家和政治分析家。

罗伯托•西尔文特，美国霍普国际大学政治与社会伦理学教授。 丹尼•哈方，美国当代知名的社会主义活动家、作家和政治分析家。

The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners. The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon ― but only after a stay of nearly two decades. In The American War in Afghanistan...(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)

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)

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)

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)