With stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy's monumental history of Rome record events from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the establishment of the Republic and its internal struggles, up to Rome's recovery after the fierce Gallic invasion of the fourth century bc. Livy vividly depicts the great characters, ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 迈克尔•格兰特，（1914－2004），英国古典学家，被《泰晤士报》誉为是“能够同时拥有学术声誉和广泛读者的为数不多的几位古典历史学家之一”。他是一位多产的学者，一生编撰了超过50部的作品，内容涵盖了从罗马货币和维苏威火山的爆发到福音书和耶稣的诸多方面。主要著作包括The World of Rome，The Ancient Mediterranean、History of Rome，Greek and Roman Historians: Information and Misinformation、From Rome to Byzantium: The Fifth Century等。 译者简介： 王乃新,辽宁师范大学历史系教授，侧重于早期罗马史、罗马政治制度史和军事史的研究。主要著作和译著有《汉尼拔战争》、《外国史学名著评介（第一卷）》、...(展开全部)

The classical historian Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) published his History of Rome between 1854 and 1856. His work was received with widespread acclaim by the scholarly community and the reading public. In 1902, in recognition of this monumental work, Mommsen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and acclaimed as 'the greatest living master of the art of historical writing'...(展开全部)

Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE. Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we have just 35, and short summaries of all the rest except two. The whole work was, long a...(展开全部)

Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE. Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we have just 35, and short summaries of all the rest except two. The whole work was, long a...(展开全部)

Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here analyse how different authors and agents (individual and collective) developed specific conceptions of history and articulated them ...(展开全部)

Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 bc to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293 bc. In this fascinating history, events are described not simply in terms of partisan politics, but through colorful portraits that bring t...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable co...(展开全部)

作者｜[瑞士]卡斯帕·赫希（Caspar Hirschi） 瑞士弗里堡大学历史学博士，曾任教于苏黎世联邦理工学院人文、社会与政治科学系，现为圣加伦大学人文社会科学学院教授。著有《民族的竞争：中世纪与现代之交德意志荣誉共同体的构建》《丑闻专家，专家丑闻：一个当代问题的历史研究》等。 译者｜X. Li 美国佐治亚大学法学硕士，现从事写作、翻译、设计和插画等工作，译有《迷信与暴力》《价格革命》《无尽的盛宴》等。

梅因（Henry Sumner Maine，1822-1888）是19世纪英国著名的法学家、英国现代历史法学和比较法学的奠基人。其一生经历丰富，兼涉法律实务、法学研究与时评，著述颇丰。其法学著作多以讲义形式面世，传世名著《古代法》便是由他在伦敦四大律师会馆的讲稿修订而成，甫一问世即成经典，在西方法学界的影响经久不衰。