Germania is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. A very funny book on serious topics---how we are misled by history, how we twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. It is a book full of curiosities: ...(展开全部)

'It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up with something like this' Sunday Times Germania is a very personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. Equally passionate about the region's history, folklore, cuisine, ar...(展开全部)

This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions - what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist and can we ever access it? In answering these central questions, John Tosh argues that, despite the impression of fragmentation crea...(展开全部)

约翰·托什（John Tosh），英国萨里－罗汉普顿大学历史学教授，主要著作有Manliness And Masculinities In Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays On Gender，Family And Empire；Historians On History：An Anthology等。

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Isaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our century's leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English. Eight of the nine pieces included here are published for the first time, and their range is characteristically wide: the subjects explored inc...(展开全部)

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Isaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our century's leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English. Eight of the nine pieces included here are published for the first time, and their range is characteristically wide: the subjects explored inc...(展开全部)

This book investigates what is specifically German about German art. It focuses on the attitudes Germans have had toward their art from the Romantic period to the present and discusses the ways they have tried to find their identity as a nation through this art.

This book investigates what is specifically German about German art. It focuses on the attitudes Germans have had toward their art from the Romantic period to the present and discusses the ways they have tried to find their identity as a nation through this art.