Who formed the first modern nation? Who created the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned ...(展开全部)

阿瑟·赫尔曼（Arthur Herman） 美国著名历史学家、畅销书作家。约翰斯·霍普金斯大学史学博士，曾在苏格兰爱丁堡大学访学。1980年代至1990年代前期他在美国天主教大学、乔治城大学、乔治梅森大学等多所大学任教，现任哈德逊研究所高级研究员。2007年至2009年，他作为第一个非英籍人士被任命为苏格兰文化艺术委员会委员。 主要著作有《文明衰落论：西方文化悲观主义的形成与演变》《甘地与丘吉尔：对抗与妥协的壮丽史诗》《拼实业：美国是怎样赢得二战的》等多部畅销历史读物。赫尔曼的著作主题宏大、史料翔实、文笔生动，学术性与可读性兼具，畅销不衰，深受各界人士的推崇。

In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than an...(展开全部)

威廉·埃金顿(William Egginton)，美国约翰·霍普金斯大学(Johns Hopkins University)人文学院教授。其学术著作包括《世界怎样变成了一个舞台》(How the World Became a Stage)、《关于真相的剧场》(The Theater of Truth)和《哲学家的欲望》(The Philosopher's Desire)等。

威廉·埃金顿(William Egginton)，美国约翰·霍普金斯大学(Johns Hopkins University)人文学院教授。其学术著作包括《世界怎样变成了一个舞台》(How the World Became a Stage)、《关于真相的剧场》(The Theater of Truth)和《哲学家的欲望》(The Philosopher's Desire)等。

In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than an...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the w...(展开全部)

约翰·迪基（John Dickie），作家、历史学家，英国伦敦大学学院艺术与人文学院意大利研究教授，意大利史、黑手党研究权威。出版有多本意大利研究相关著作。

约翰·迪基（John Dickie），作家、历史学家，英国伦敦大学学院艺术与人文学院意大利研究教授，意大利史、黑手党研究权威。出版有多本意大利研究相关著作。

玛丽莲・亚隆，美国斯坦福大学克莱曼性别研究院高级研究员，法国文学教授。著有《妻子的历史》《乳房的历史》《象棋皇后的诞生》《干姐妹：女性记忆中的法国大革命》《美国人的安息之地：公墓和墓地的四百年历史》等多部作品。 王晨，毕业于上海交通大学，译有《黑死病》《骑士之爱与游吟诗人》《论欧洲》《拷问法国大革命》《古典传统：希腊—罗马对西方文学的影响》等。