In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan shines fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, etiquette, origin myths, and human sacrifice. While the Aztecs are often described as “stone age,” their achievements were remarkable. They constructed lofty temples and produced fi...(展开全部)

The Goths are truly a “lost civilization.” Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and Spain, dominating early medieval Europe. Yet after the last Gothic kingdom fell more than a thousand years ago, the Goths disappea...(展开全部)

We often think of the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome as discrete incubators of Western culture, places where ideas about everything from government to art to philosophy were free to develop and then be distributed outward into the wider Mediterranean world. But as Peter Bogucki reminds us in this book, Greece and Rome did not develop in isolation. All around them were...(展开全部)

From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca. In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the largest land empire in the Americas, reaching the pinnacle of South American civilization. Known as the “Romans of the Americas,” these fabulous engineers converted the vertiginous, ch...(展开全部)

An illuminating look at the myriad communities who have engaged with the ancient Maya over the centuries. This book reveals how the ancient Maya—and their buildings, ideas, objects, and identities—have been perceived, portrayed, and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe, and beyond. Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis, the book summarizes ancient Maya a...(展开全部)

弗朗西斯·伯丹（Frances F. Berdan），美国加州州立大学圣伯纳迪诺分校人类学荣誉教授。1982~1983年获加州州立大学系统杰出教授奖。她担任过多本有影响力的著作的作者或主编，包括《中部墨西哥的阿兹特克人》《门多萨法典》《阿兹特克帝国战略》《阿兹特克考古学和民族历史》（剑桥世界考古学丛书）等。她在《拉丁美洲古物》《古中美洲》等学术期刊上均有文章发表。 曹磊，文学硕士，历史文化作家、译者，喜马拉雅脱口秀节目《谦道》特邀撰稿人，《北京纪事》专栏作者。著有代表作《1945》《对话胡雪岩》等，策划并翻译有《战士之路》《从北京到曼德勒》等，作品共16部，总计500万余字。其中《六千零一夜：关于古埃及的知识考古》入选第十五届“文津图书奖”推荐图书。 李默然，中国社会科学院考古研究所世界考古研究室副研究员。武汉大学考古学博士，哈佛燕京学社2016—2...(展开全部)

著者简介 洛朗·比奈（Laurent Binet），1972年出生在巴黎。他的第一部小说《HHhH》被《纽约时报》评为年度最佳书籍之一，并获得了龚古尔首部小说奖（新人奖）。其他小说代表作包括《语言的第七种功能》和《翻转文明》，前者获得了行际盟友奖和法国FNAC小说奖，后者获得了法兰西学院小说大奖和或然历史写作“侧面奖”（Sidewise Award for Alternate History）。 译者简介 汪玲，复旦大学法语语言文学硕士，译有《我们与他人》，曾入围傅雷翻译出版奖初评。

Vers l’an mille : la fille d’Erik le Rouge met cap au sud. 1492 : Colomb ne découvre pas l’Amérique. 1531 : les Incas envahissent l’Europe. À quelles conditions ce qui a été aurait-il pu ne pas être ? Il a manqué trois choses aux Indiens pour résister aux conquistadors. Donnez-leur le cheval, le fer, les anticorps, et toute l’histoire du monde est à refaire. Civilizatio...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.