At first "The Emigrants" appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss. Written with a bone-dry sense of humour and a fascination with the oddness of existence "The Emigrants"...(展开全部)

Among the greatest and most moving achievements of contemporary German writing"(Rheinischer Merkur), the four long narratives in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants appear at first sight to be straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. But Sebald has wrought something altogether new. Illustrated throughout with enigmatic photographs, it is an astonishingly beautiful book --...(展开全部)

A radical revision of the geographical history of the discovery of the Americas that links Columbus's southbound route with colonialism, slavery, and today's divide between the industrialized North and the developing South. Everyone knows that in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic, seeking a new route to the East. Few note, however, that Columbus's intent...(展开全部)

In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass ...(展开全部)

In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass ...(展开全部)

佩里•安德森（Perry Anderson，1938— ）历史社会学家、思想史家，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系和社会学系教授，主持《新左派评论》达20年之久，发表了大量著述，代表作有《从古代到封建主义的过渡》、《绝对主义国家的系谱》等。被文化批评家泰勒•伊格尔顿 (Terry Eagleton) 誉为“不列颠最杰出的马克思主义知识分子”。

佩里•安德森（Perry Anderson，1938— ）历史社会学家、思想史家，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系和社会学系教授，主持《新左派评论》达20年之久，发表了大量著述，代表作有《从古代到封建主义的过渡》、《绝对主义国家的系谱》等。被文化批评家泰勒•伊格尔顿 (Terry Eagleton) 誉为“不列颠最杰出的马克思主义知识分子”。

佩里•安德森（Perry Anderson，1938— ）历史社会学家、思想史家，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系和社会学系教授，主持《新左派评论》达20年之久，发表了大量著述，代表作有《从古代到封建主义的过渡》、《绝对主义国家的系谱》等。被文化批评家泰勒•伊格尔顿 (Terry Eagleton) 誉为“不列颠最杰出的马克思主义知识分子”。

佩里•安德森（Perry Anderson，1938— ）历史社会学家、思想史家，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系和社会学系教授，主持《新左派评论》达20年之久，发表了大量著述，代表作有《从古代到封建主义的过渡》、《绝对主义国家的系谱》等。被文化批评家泰勒•伊格尔顿 (Terry Eagleton) 誉为“不列颠最杰出的马克思主义知识分子”。