The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the ...(展开全部)

The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the ...(展开全部)

A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of i...(展开全部)

彼得·希瑟（Peter Heather） 伦敦国王学院中世纪史教授，曾执教于伦敦大学学院、耶鲁大学、牛津大学。他研究古典时代晚期、中世纪早期欧洲史30余年，尤其关注被罗马人视为蛮族的群体，从这类群体的迁徙、帝国边缘与核心地带的互动出发，提出了诸多学术创见。除“罗马史诗三部曲”外，希瑟还著有《罗马复兴：查士丁尼时代的战争与帝国》《从迁徙时期到7世纪的西哥特人：民族志视角》《4世纪的政治、哲学与帝国》《哥特人》等书。他的作品被翻译为西班牙语、德语、波兰语、意大利语、中文等多种文字，具有国际影响力。 希瑟擅长在学术界与大众、历史与当下间建立联系，这方面尤为突出的代表作是“罗马史诗三部曲”（《罗马帝国的陨落：一部新的历史》《罗马的复辟：帝国陨落之后》《帝国与蛮族：从罗马到欧洲的千年史》）。三部著作融分析于叙事，多角度呈现从古代晚期到中世纪早期的千年欧洲史，既...(展开全部)

彼得·希瑟（Peter Heather） 伦敦国王学院中世纪史教授，曾执教于伦敦大学学院、耶鲁大学、牛津大学。他研究古典时代晚期、中世纪早期欧洲史30余年，尤其关注被罗马人视为蛮族的群体，从这类群体的迁徙、帝国边缘与核心地带的互动出发，提出了诸多学术创见。除“罗马史诗三部曲”外，希瑟还著有《罗马复兴：查士丁尼时代的战争与帝国》《从迁徙时期到7世纪的西哥特人：民族志视角》《4世纪的政治、哲学与帝国》《哥特人》等书。他的作品被翻译为西班牙语、德语、波兰语、意大利语、中文等多种文字，具有国际影响力。 希瑟擅长在学术界与大众、历史与当下间建立联系，这方面尤为突出的代表作是“罗马史诗三部曲”（《罗马帝国的陨落：一部新的历史》《罗马的复辟：帝国陨落之后》《帝国与蛮族：从罗马到欧洲的千年史》）。三部著作融分析于叙事，多角度呈现从古代晚期到中世纪早期的千年欧洲史，既...(展开全部)

彼得·希瑟（Peter Heather） 伦敦国王学院中世纪史教授，曾执教于伦敦大学学院、耶鲁大学、牛津大学。他研究古典时代晚期、中世纪早期欧洲史30余年，尤其关注被罗马人视为蛮族的群体，从这类群体的迁徙、帝国边缘与核心地带的互动出发，提出了诸多学术创见。除“罗马史诗三部曲”外，希瑟还著有《罗马复兴：查士丁尼时代的战争与帝国》《从迁徙时期到7世纪的西哥特人：民族志视角》《4世纪的政治、哲学与帝国》《哥特人》等书。他的作品被翻译为西班牙语、德语、波兰语、意大利语、中文等多种文字，具有国际影响力。 希瑟擅长在学术界与大众、历史与当下间建立联系，这方面尤为突出的代表作是“罗马史诗三部曲”（《罗马帝国的陨落：一部新的历史》《罗马的复辟：帝国陨落之后》《帝国与蛮族：从罗马到欧洲的千年史》）。三部著作融分析于叙事，多角度呈现从古代晚期到中世纪早期的千年欧洲史，既...(展开全部)

Depression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, “depression” referred to a mood, not a sickness. Does that mean people weren’t sick before, only sad? Of course not. Mental illness is a complex thing, part biological, part social, its definition dependent on time and place. But in the mid-twentieth centu...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

Yet that might and that greatness were reduced to a mere show before his long reign terminated; and the Moghul Empire resembled -- to use a familiar image -- one of those Etruscan corpses which, though crowned and armed, are destined to crumble at the breath of heaven or at the touch of human hands. And still more did it resemble some splendid palace.

The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200 - 118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted b...(展开全部)