In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a G...(展开全部)

'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand post-World War II Europe' Julia Boyd 'One of the best young historians writing in English today. . . Well-researched, well-written and profoundly insightful, Beyond the Wall explodes many of the lazy Western cliches about East Germany' Andrew Roberts In ...(展开全部)

This book presents a clear, concise history of the extraordinary multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East. Bestselling narrative of the complex history of the ancient Near East Addresses political, social, and cultural developments Contains in-depth discussion of key texts and sources, including the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh Includes numerous maps, illustrat...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 托马斯•奇尔德斯曾是宾夕法尼亚大学“谢尔登和露西·哈克尼”历史学教授。他撰写或编辑过数部关于德国现代史和第二次世界大战的著作。他获得过很多科研基金和奖项，包括富布莱特奖金、亚历山大•冯•洪堡基金会研究基金和哈佛大学的西欧研究基金。除了在宾夕法尼亚大学授课，奇尔德斯还是剑桥大学三一学院、史密斯学院和斯沃斯莫尔学院的访问教授，他还在伦敦、牛津、柏林、慕尼黑等地和美国和欧洲的多所大学举办过讲座。 【译者简介】 杨楠，英语全职自由译者，有十年图书翻译经历，热爱图书翻译工作，擅长翻译音乐和历史题材著作。译有《大西庇阿：胜过拿破仑》《1914：世界终结之年》《1913：一战前的世界》等，合译有《肖邦传：一个波兰人和他伟大的音乐》等。

“Riveting…An elegantly composed study, important and even timely” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) history of the Third Reich—how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose from obscurity to power and plunged the world into World War II. In “the new definitive volume on the subject” (Houston Press), Thomas Childers shows how the young Hitler became passionately political and a...(展开全部)

Carlos Rojas presents a sweeping survey of the historical and political significance of one of the world's most recognizable monuments. Although the splendor of the Great Wall has become virtually synonymous with its vast size, the structure's conceptual coherence is actually grounded on the tenuous and ephemeral stories we tell about it. These stories give life to the Wall and...(展开全部)

Wall Street is the stuff of legend and a source of nightmares, a force so powerful in American society--and, indeed, in world economics and culture--that it has become an almost universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of commercial success and the basest impulses of greed and deception. How did such a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan came to have such enor...(展开全部)

The ninth edition of this widely acclaimed text by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. and Lawrence Davidson has been extensively revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in the Middle East. As an introduction to the history of this turbulent region from the beginnings of Islam to the present day, the book is distinguished by its clear style, broad scope, and bal...(展开全部)

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of Asia might have come under Western rule after centuries of warfare, but its ...(展开全部)