Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti’s lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry, Martin Puchner explores how ...(展开全部)

个人写作的世界通史中经典的一部…… 在西方史学界的知名度和在高校中的使用率甚至要超过斯塔夫里阿诺斯的《全球通史》……

个人写作的世界通史中经典的一部…… 在西方史学界的知名度和在高校中的使用率甚至要超过斯塔夫里阿诺斯的《全球通史》……

[英]休·斯特拉坎牛津大学战争史学教授，英国皇家历史学会会员。著作包括《欧洲陆军与战争行为》《英国陆军政治》《第一次世界大战，第一卷：致武器》《牛津第一次世界大战史》等作品“牛津欧洲史”系列的作者“人均院士”，都是来自牛津大学等名校的教授、欧美史学界学科带头人，该系列的每一本都是该领域的最顶级的学者、最权威大牛所作。

Paul Johnson turns his great gifts as a popular and much-translated historian to a subject that has enthralled him all his life: the history of art. Art, he believes, was central to human development, more so than writing and even language. This history begins with the earliest rock paintings around 30,000 BC and takes us right up to the present day. E.H. Gombrich's legendary b...(展开全部)

Book Description In Art: A New History, Paul Johnson turns his great gifts as a world historian to a subject that has enthralled him all his life: the history of art. This narrative account, from the earliest cave paintings up to the present day, has new things to say about almost every period of art. Taking account of changing scholarship and shifting opinions, he draws our...(展开全部)

劳伦斯•里斯（Laurence Rees），1957年生，牛津大学毕业，英国历史学家、纪录片导演，被《泰晤士报》评为“英国最杰出的历史纪录片制片人”。曾担任英国广播公司（BBC）历史节目的创意总监，制作许多有关纳粹和二战系列的电视、电影，获奖无数，包括英国电影和电视艺术学院奖（BAFTA）、英国纪录片格里尔逊奖和国际纪录片奖等。代表作《奥斯维辛：一部历史》《纳粹：历史的警示》《东方恐怖：1931-1945的日本侵略》《世纪之战：希特勒和斯大林的战争》《希特勒：黑暗的克里斯玛》等。

Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies provide a portrait of the inner workings of the camp in unrivalled detail...(展开全部)

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure a...(展开全部)

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure a...(展开全部)