The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series. This non-illustrated edition interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through that cataclysmic trail of our nationhood, from Abraham Lincoln to ordinary foot soldiers. Includes essays by distinguished historians of the ...(展开全部)

This is the classic history of the Paris Commune, now republished on the occasion of the 140th anniversary with a new preface by the writer and publisher Eric Hazan. The author, Lissagaray, had been a participant in the Commune and, after its suppression, worked for twenty-five years interviewing the survivors in exile and consulting the available documents.

The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of the grandest political dreams of the nineteenth century—before culminating in horrific violence. Following the disastrous French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, hungry and politically disenchanted Parisians took up arms against their government in the name of a more just soc...(展开全部)

Ripped from the pages of New Avengers, the Eisner Award-winning team of Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev present an explosive hidden story of Marvel's secret past, the secret history of Marvel's most secret team - how they came together and how they are ripped apart. Plus: Spidey's got a new lease on life, new powers and a new costume, courtesy of his new best friend Tony Stark. So...(展开全部)

The 1870s in France - Rimbaud's moment, and the subject of this book - is a decade virtually ignored in most standard histories in France. Yet it was the moment of two significant spatial events: France's expansion on a global scale, and, in the spring of 1871, the brief existence on the Paris Commune - the construction of the revolutionary urban space. Arguing that space, as a...(展开全部)

◎著者简介 阿利斯泰尔·霍恩，英国著名法国史专家，曾获得沃尔夫森历史奖、霍桑顿文学奖和法国荣誉军团勋章。主要著作有《巴黎的七个时代》《凡尔登战役：荣耀的代价，1916》等。 ◎译者简介 王宸，北京大学历史学系博士，现任职于博物馆。专业方向为环境史、医疗社会史，热爱各种边缘人边缘事的历史。参与翻译《俄罗斯与拿破仑的决战：鏖战欧罗巴1807—1814》《企鹅欧洲史6：追逐荣耀》《现代医学小史》《致命敌人：为下一次大流行病做准备》等。 田方舟，英国格拉斯哥大学硕士，现任职于教育部中外语言交流合作中心，历史、翻译爱好者。

From Alistair Horne's grand trilogy on French history-two magisterial works now back in print In 1870, Paris was the center of Europe, the font of culture, fashion, and invention. Ten months later Paris had been broken by a long Prussian siege, its starving citizens reduced to eating dogs, cats, and rats, and France had been forced to accept the humiliating surrender terms ...(展开全部)

A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France. Since Tocqueville's account of the Old Regime, historians have struggled to understand the social, cultural, and political intricacies of this efflorescence of French society before the Revolution. France in the E...(展开全部)