威廉姆•J. 杜克（William J. Duiker），美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学东亚学名誉教授。学术兴趣极为广泛，主要研究领域为民族主义和亚洲革命，其作品Ho Chi Minh：A Life（Hyperion 2000）曾提名2001年普利策奖。 杰克森•J. 斯皮尔沃格（Jackson J. Spielvogel），美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学历史学名誉副教授。主要研究领域为宗教史、纳粹德国史和西方文明史，代表作有Western Civilization等。 译者 易丙兰， 北京大学历史学博士，现主要从事中国近现代史的教学科研工作。

Explore common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time withTHE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY: to 1500. This brief overview of world history covers political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis to help you gain an appreciation and understan...(展开全部)

威廉姆•J. 杜克（William J. Duiker），美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学东亚学名誉教授。学术兴趣极为广泛，主要研究领域为民族主义和亚洲革命，其作品Ho Chi Minh：A Life（Hyperion 2000）曾提名2001年普利策奖。 杰克森•J. 斯皮尔沃格（Jackson J. Spielvogel），美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学历史学名誉副教授。主要研究领域为宗教史、纳粹德国史和西方文明史，代表作有Western Civilization等。 译者 易丙兰， 北京大学历史学博士，现主要从事中国近现代史的教学科研工作。

Explore common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time with THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY, 6e. This brief overview of world history covers political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis to help you gain an appreciation and understanding...(展开全部)

About the Author Felipe Fernández-Armesto holds the William P. Reynolds Chair of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford, where he spent most of his teaching career, before taking up the Chair of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary College, University of London in 2000, and the Prince of Asturias Chair a...(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)

◆作者简介 克里斯托弗•道森（Christopher Dawson，1889—1970），当代著名的文化哲学家、历史学家和文化史学家，被誉为“新时代的先知”,备受艾略特、汤因比等人推崇。道森的研究领域十分广泛，主要兴趣集中在文化哲学，尤其是在宗教信仰与文化变迁的关系方面，其视野之宏大、文风之优雅、学识之广博，可与斯宾格勒和汤因比比肩。主要著作有《神祇时代》《进步与宗教》《理解欧洲》《世界历史的动力》等。 ◆译者简介 武可，北京师范大学历史学博士，现为中央民族大学历史文化学院讲师，从事西欧中世纪史的科研与教学。

◆作者简介 克里斯托弗•道森（Christopher Dawson，1889—1970），当代著名的文化哲学家、历史学家和文化史学家，被誉为“新时代的先知”,备受艾略特、汤因比等人推崇。道森的研究领域十分广泛，主要兴趣集中在文化哲学，尤其是在宗教信仰与文化变迁的关系方面，其视野之宏大、文风之优雅、学识之广博，可与斯宾格勒和汤因比比肩。主要著作有《神祇时代》《进步与宗教》《理解欧洲》《世界历史的动力》等。 ◆译者简介 武可，北京师范大学历史学博士，现为中央民族大学历史文化学院讲师，从事西欧中世纪史的科研与教学。

A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. As varied and inventive as the volumes they hold, such buildings can be much more than the dusty, dark wooden shelves found in mystery stories or the catacombs of stacks in the basements of academia. From the great dome of the Library of Congress, to the white façade of the Seinäjoki Library in...(展开全部)

A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. As varied and inventive as the volumes they hold, such buildings can be much more than the dusty, dark wooden shelves found in mystery stories or the catacombs of stacks in the basements of academia. From the great dome of the Library of Congress, to the white façade of the Seinäjoki Library in...(展开全部)