This book is about our history. Not the history of kings, queens, chiefs, emirs, great moguls, emperors, tsars, presidents, or dictators, but our own: the history of the men, women, and children who peopled the earth. It is a long story that began more than one hundred and fifty thousand years ago and continues today. Despite dark times, wars, and conflicts, we invented, worked...(展开全部)

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of traditional histories, which have tended to be Eurocentric, telling mankind's story through tales of Greece and Rome and the crowned heads of Europe's oldest monarchies. Here he widen...(展开全部)

The Turkic Peoples in World History is a thorough and rare introduction to the Turkic world and its role in world history, providing a concise history of the Turkic peoples as well as a critical discussion of their identities and origins. The "Turks" stepped on to the stage of history by establishing the Turk Qaghanate, the first trans-Eurasian empire in history, in 552 CE. In ...(展开全部)

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People's History of the United S...(展开全部)

R.R. 帕尔默（R.R.Palmer，1909—2002），美国著名历史学家，1934 年获康奈尔大学博士学位，1936—1977年间先后执教于普林斯顿大学、华盛顿大学和耶鲁大学。作为法国大革命研究权威，以及美法两国革命比较研究的先驱，帕尔默曾先后担任美国法国史研究协会主席（1961），美国历史学会主席（1970），同时也是美国哲学学会、美国艺术与科学学院的活跃成员，并被欧美多所大学授予荣誉学位。1990 年，帕尔默被意大利林琴科学院授予费尔特里内利奖。本书是帕尔默的代表作，此外他还著有《18 世纪法国的天主教徒和不信教者》（1939），《民主革命的年代：美国与欧洲的政治史》（1959）等。 乔• 科尔顿（Joel Colton），哥伦比亚大学哲学博士，1950—1989 年任教于杜克大学历史系，曾任洛克菲勒人文科学奖学金与研究项目主席，美国艺术与...(展开全部)

Great conquerors appear in the dim light of that distant time and pass, Tushratta, King of Mitanni, who captured Nineveh, Tiglath Pileser I of Assyria who conquered Babylon. At last the Assyrians became the greatest military power of the time. Tiglath Pileser III conquered Babylon in 745 B.C. and founded what historians call the New Assyrian Empire. Iron had also come now into ...(展开全部)

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen la...(展开全部)

In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast and disparate possessions, but his action had the opposite effect, catalyzing the emergence of competing nationalisms among his Hungarian, Czech, and other subjects, who feared that their languages and cultures ...(展开全部)

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People's History of the United S...(展开全部)