A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, an...(展开全部)

Kaveh Yazdani s work is hugely ambitious. It seeks simultaneously to attempt a micro-history of two advanced commercial regions of India Mysore and Gujarat in the eighteenth century and to intervene more broadly in the ongoing debates on modernity and its origins in the context of the great divergence between the west and the rest. In embarking on such a study, Yazdani treads a...(展开全部)

"Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, one of the most extraordinary rulers in history. Impetuous and stubborn, ...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 罗伯特·K. 马西（Robert K. Massie），美国历史学家、作家、普利策奖得主、罗德学者。生于美国肯塔基州，曾在耶鲁大学攻读美国史，在牛津大学攻读欧洲史，1987—1991年间担任美国作家协会主席。其写作主要集中于对罗曼诺夫王朝及俄国皇室的研究，著有《通往权力之路：叶卡捷琳娜大帝》（Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman）、《尼古拉和亚历山德拉：对罗曼诺夫王朝覆灭的经典描述》（Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty）、《罗曼诺夫王朝：终章》（The Romanovs: The Final Chapter）等。 【译者简介】 孟嘉伦，作家、译者，爱好文史，著有《枭雄录》，...(展开全部)

From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Robert K. Massie—also available are Nicholas and Alexandra and The Romanovs Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. The acclaimed author of Catherine the Great...(展开全部)

"Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, one of the most extraordinary rulers in history. Impetuous and stubborn, ...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 罗伯特·K. 马西（Robert K. Massie），美国历史学家、作家、普利策奖得主、罗德学者。生于美国肯塔基州，曾在耶鲁大学攻读美国史，在牛津大学攻读欧洲史，1987—1991年间担任美国作家协会主席。其写作主要集中于对罗曼诺夫王朝及俄国皇室的研究，著有《通往权力之路：叶卡捷琳娜大帝》（Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman）、《尼古拉和亚历山德拉：对罗曼诺夫王朝覆灭的经典描述》（Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty）、《罗曼诺夫王朝：终章》（The Romanovs: The Final Chapter）等。 【译者简介】 孟嘉伦，作家、译者，爱好文史，著有《枭雄录》，...(展开全部)

From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Robert K. Massie—also available are Nicholas and Alexandra and The Romanovs Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. The acclaimed author of Catherine the Great...(展开全部)

Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (“great soul”), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century and during this nation’s own civil rights movement. Taken from Gandhi’s writings throughout his life, The Essential Gandhi introduces us to his thoughts on poli...(展开全部)

Pagan revelry and morris dancing in the middle of a very cold winter set the scene for one of Ngaio Marsh’s most fascinating murder mysteries. When the pesky Anna Bünz arrives at Mardian to investigate the rare survival of folk-dancing still practised there, she quickly antagonizes the villagers. But Mrs Bünz is not the only source of friction – two of the other enthusiasts are...(展开全部)