Who writes the past? And how do the biases of storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - influence our ideas about history today? Epic, authoritative and entertaining, Making History delves into the lives of those who have charted human history - professional historians, witnesses, novelists, journalists and propagandists - to discover the agend...(展开全部)

A fascinating, epic exploration of who gets to record the world's history--from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns--and how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as "objective" history? In this lively and thought-provokin...(展开全部)

A fascinating, epic exploration of who gets to record the world's history--from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns--and how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as "objective" history? In this lively and thought-provokin...(展开全部)

Who writes the past? And how do the biases of storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - influence our ideas about history today? Epic, authoritative and entertaining, Making History delves into the lives of those who have charted human history - professional historians, witnesses, novelists, journalists and propagandists - to discover the agend...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream. Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to unc...(展开全部)

In this revised edition of Paul Thompson's successful book, he traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of this international movement. He challenges myths of historical scholarship and looks at the use of oral sources by the historian. The author offers advice on designing a project; discusses reliability of oral evidence; considers the co...(展开全部)

The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history. Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human...(展开全部)

The alternative to the well-told narrative of human civilisation is the compelling story of wanderers, of tribes who lived beyond imperial borders, and who created their own kingdoms and empires: Scythian, Xiongnu and Persian, Hun and Arab, Mongul, Mughal, Ottoman and others. Humans have been on the move for most of history. Even after the great urban advancement lured people i...(展开全部)

Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, a magisterial new history of the ancient world told, for the very first time, through women. For centuries, men have been writing histories of antiquity filled with warlords, emperors and kings. But when it comes to incorporating women aside from Cleopatra and Boudica, write...(展开全部)

本书跨越3000年，从米诺斯克里特岛的诞生到罗马朱里亚·克劳狄王朝的灭亡，这是一部初次通过女性视角讲述古代世界历史的宏伟巨著。 几个世纪以来，男性一直在书写充斥着军阀、皇帝和国王的古代历史。但当谈到克利奥帕特拉和布狄卡以外的女性时，作家们更倾向于描写神话中的女英雄，而不是现实生活中的女英雄。虽然佩内洛普和特洛伊的海伦仍然活在人们的想象中，但她们现实生活中的对应人物却被边缘化了。 在《失落的线索》中，黛西·邓恩颠覆了这一传统，将历史上的女性置于叙事的中心。书中展现了早期被提及的作家恩赫杜安娜、诗人萨福以及保卫城市免遭攻击的特勒西拉。书中还展现了希波战争中仅有的女性统帅阿尔特米西亚，以及奥运会初位女性胜利者西尼斯卡。 克利奥帕特拉或许更为知名，但马克·安东尼的妻子富尔维娅也曾为他参战。许多其他女性至今仍默默无闻，却也不可或缺。通过对史料的全新考证和生动的...(展开全部)