A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft...(展开全部)

Daily life in the age of the Black Death was anything but normal. During the second pandemic of bubonic plague, from 1348 to 1722, Europeans were regularly assaulted by deadly epidemics. When plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside down, from relations within families to the whole social, political and economic structure. Theatres emptied, graveyards fill...(展开全部)

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs write...(展开全部)

Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity―in art, cinema, architecture, industry, s...(展开全部)

Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity―in art, cinema, architecture, industry, s...(展开全部)

威廉·索登·西姆斯，美国海军上将，海军战争学院院长。他是19世纪末和20世纪初美国海军现代化的推动人物。在第一次世界大战期间，他是美国海军大西洋-欧洲战区司令，是打败德国无限制潜艇战的指挥者与见证者。 伯顿·杰西·亨德里克，美国作家，先后获得耶鲁大学学士学位与硕士学位。《纽黑文早间新闻》《纽约晚报》《纽约太阳报》《麦克卢尔杂志》《世界工作杂志》编辑。 ² 译者简介 吴安红，西北师范大学外国语学院讲师，硕士研究生学历，资深翻译，发表学术论文三篇，参加课题两项。

威廉·索登·西姆斯，美国海军上将，海军战争学院院长。他是19世纪末和20世纪初美国海军现代化的推动人物。在第一次世界大战期间，他是美国海军大西洋-欧洲战区司令，是打败德国无限制潜艇战的指挥者与见证者。 伯顿·杰西·亨德里克，美国作家，先后获得耶鲁大学学士学位与硕士学位。《纽黑文早间新闻》《纽约晚报》《纽约太阳报》《麦克卢尔杂志》《世界工作杂志》编辑。 ² 译者简介 吴安红，西北师范大学外国语学院讲师，硕士研究生学历，资深翻译，发表学术论文三篇，参加课题两项。

威廉·索登·西姆斯，美国海军上将，海军战争学院院长。他是19世纪末和20世纪初美国海军现代化的推动人物。在第一次世界大战期间，他是美国海军大西洋-欧洲战区司令，是打败德国无限制潜艇战的指挥者与见证者。 伯顿·杰西·亨德里克，美国作家，先后获得耶鲁大学学士学位与硕士学位。《纽黑文早间新闻》《纽约晚报》《纽约太阳报》《麦克卢尔杂志》《世界工作杂志》编辑。 ² 译者简介 吴安红，西北师范大学外国语学院讲师，硕士研究生学历，资深翻译，发表学术论文三篇，参加课题两项。