In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news r...(展开全部)

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news r...(展开全部)

这一次的探访，奈保尔对印度和印度文化投入了更为复杂的理性和情感。尖俏的讽刺让位于沉郁乃至悲怆的分析与描述。千年古国的难题一一揭示，现实中的国度却未找到再生的原点。奈保尔的困境是印度的困境，也是我们的困境。本书颇为激越，但也证明像奈保尔这样的小说家，可更快速也更有效地指出问题所在，比之世界银行经济学家小组和各式专家有过之而不无及。

这一次的探访，奈保尔对印度和印度文化投入了更为复杂的理性和情感。尖俏的讽刺让位于沉郁乃至悲怆的分析与描述。千年古国的难题一一揭示，现实中的国度却未找到再生的原点。奈保尔的困境是印度的困境，也是我们的困境。本书颇为激越，但也证明像奈保尔这样的小说家，可更快速也更有效地指出问题所在，比之世界银行经济学家小组和各式专家有过之而不无及。

托马斯·特劳特曼（Thomas R. Trautmann），美国历史学家、文化人类学家，密歇根大学历史与人类学荣休教授，曾任密歇根大学历史系主任和南亚研究中心主任。1997—2006年，担任《社会与历史比较研究》（Comparative Studies in Society and History）主编。著有《大象与国王：一部环境史》（Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History，2015年）、《语言与国家》（Languages and Nations，2006年）、《雅利安人与英属印度》（Aryans and British India，2004年）。 特劳特曼的研究主要集中在古代印度历史、人类学史和其他相关学科，尤其专精于研究古印度梵语论典。他还撰写了有关印度达罗毗荼人亲属关系和美国印第安人亲属关系的...(展开全部)

India: Brief History of a Civilization provides a brief overview of a very long period, allowing students to acquire a mental map of the entire history of Indian civilization in a short book. Most comprehensive histories devote a few chapters to the early history of India and an increasing number of pages to the more recent period, giving an impression that early history is mer...(展开全部)

In ‘India: A History’ five millennia of the sub-continent’s history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East. This definitive work combines narrative pace and skill with social, economic and cultural analysis. India’s history begins with a highly advanced urban civilisation in the Indus valley, regressing to a tribal and pastoral nomadism, and then...(展开全部)

This is a transformative work on modern Judaism. "Judaism as a Civilization" is widely considered the genesis of the Reconstructionist Movement, representing a watershed moment in modern Judaism. In this classic book, Mordecai Kaplan introduced a new way of looking at Judaism: as an evolving religious civilization. His approach required innovation in liturgy and ritual, elimina...(展开全部)

肯尼斯•克拉克（Kenneth Clark，1903－1983） 英国作家、艺术史家，被公认为20世纪英国艺术界“一言九鼎”的人物之一。他曾在27岁时担任牛津阿什莫尔博物馆馆长，30岁主理英国国家美术馆。进入50年代，他通过担任多部艺术类电视纪录片的主持人进入公众视野。1969年，随着纪录片《文明》和同名图书的问世，克拉克的声誉达到了顶峰。 译者简介 易英，男，1953年出生于湖南。中央美术学院教授、博士生导师，中央美术学院《美术研究》杂志社社长、《世界美术》主编。马英九表弟。

Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century and the basis for director David Lean’s Academy Award-winning film, A Passage to India tells of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century. In exquisite prose, Forster reveals the menace that lurks just beneath the surface of ordinary life, as a common misunderstanding erupts into a devastating affair....(展开全部)