In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Emperor Honorius made the momentous decision to move his capital city to a small, easy defendable city in the Po estuary - Ravenna. From then until 751 AD, Ravenna was the capital of the Western Roman Empire, then that of the immense kingdom of...(展开全部)

A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonish...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earlier she had published what was undoubtedly her finest achievement, The Accu...(展开全部)

The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire distilled the disdain of generations when he quipped it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual na...(展开全部)

The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire distilled the disdain of generations when he quipped it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual na...(展开全部)

Since it was first published, Birds of Europe has established itself as the definitive illustrated field guide to the continent’s fascinating birdlife. Now in its third edition, this superb guide has been expanded and brought completely up to date with revised text, illustrations, and maps. More than 50 plates are either new or have been completely or partly repainted, and more...(展开全部)

This title is set in Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquois...(展开全部)

This title is set in Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquois...(展开全部)

With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself. Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined t...(展开全部)

钱乘旦，男，汉族，1949年生，江苏金坛人。 高中就读于江苏省四大名校之一的南京师范大学附属中学，1973年参加高考，考入南京大学英语系。1985年于南京大学历史系获博士学位后，曾赴哈佛大学和爱丁堡大学作博士后。现任北京大学历史系教授、博士生导师、国务院学位委员会历史学科组成员、国家社会科学基金专家评审组成员、教育部社会科学委员会委员、中国英国史研究会会长、英国皇家历史学会通讯会士，澳门大学历史学系学兼职教授等职。2003年11月曾与齐世荣教授一起向中央政治局第九次集体学习作《15世纪以来世界主要国家发展历史考察》的专题讲解。 学科专长及研究方向 英国史；世界史；现代化历史比较；西方文化史。 目前承当的科研项目 主持211项目“英国及英联邦国家现代化研究”，985项目“英国及发达国家现代化研究”，国家“十五”社科基金项目“帝国解体与当代资本主义”。