大卫 ·戈德布拉特生于1965年，现在英格兰莱斯特的德蒙福特大学和美国洛杉矶的匹泽学院任教。 他出版了多本备受赞誉的足球书籍:《足球是圆的》（The Ball is Round,2006)，这是一部惊人的、雄心勃勃的足球全球史；《我们生活的游戏》（The Game of Our Lives,2014），讲述了英国足球的意义和源起，这本书获得了威廉·希尔年度体育图书大奖；《足球国度》（Futebol Nation,2014），这是一部巴西足球的历史。他还编辑过《世界足球年鉴》（The World Football Yearbook），制作了多部体育纪录片，时常给《卫报》和《纽约时报》供稿。

艾伦·梅恩（Alan Mayne），研究贫民窟历史的重要权威，英国莱斯特大学城市历史中心的客座教授，南澳大利亚大学兼职教授。他1993年出版的作品《想象中的贫民窟：三个城市新闻报道中的陈述（1870—1914）》（The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870–1914）引起了世界范围内对贫民窟问题的广泛关注。

Europe's place in history is re-assessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern globalization. Philippe Beaujard presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 CE. Supported by a wealth of empirical data, full color maps, plat...(展开全部)

The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it. The volume seeks perspectives on history from East Asian and Islamic sources as well as European ones, and insists on depth in historical analysis. The Prospect of Global History will speak to those interested in medieval and ancient history as well ...(展开全部)

The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it. The volume seeks perspectives on history from East Asian and Islamic sources as well as European ones, and insists on depth in historical analysis. The Prospect of Global History will speak to those interested in medieval and ancient history as well ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 于尔根•奥斯特哈默（Jürgen Osterhammel），1952年生，曾在伦敦德国史研究所和弗莱堡大学工作，现为康斯坦茨大学近现代史教授。他出版过大量有关18世纪以来的欧亚历史著作。其作品包括《中国与世界：十八世纪至当代》（获得德国史学家协会奖）《中国革命: 1925年5月30日, 上海》《世界的演变：19世纪史》等。于尔根•奥斯特哈默因其在历史学研究中的卓越成就分别于2010年和2016年获得莱布尼茨奖、汤因比奖。目前，他正在从事2 0世纪的去殖民化史研究，并和入江昭（Akira Iriye）合作主编6卷本《世界史》（A History of the World）。 · 【译者简介】 强朝晖，职业译者，译有《中国冲击》《水的政治》等。 刘风，北京外国语大学德语系毕业，德语同传译员，自由职业翻译，译有《正午的单车》、《完美三月》和《...(展开全部)

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtak...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

When President Barack Obama visited Cairo in 2009 to deliver an address to Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global Muslim community for granted. But as Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single religio-...(展开全部)