The generation of 1914 holds a special place in memory, affection, and myth. In this irresistible and moving book, Robert Wohl rescues it from the shadows of legend and brings it fully into the realm of understanding. He tells the story of the young men--the middle class elite of five European countries, France, Germany, England, Spain, and Italy, to recreate the generational c...(展开全部)

The generation of 1914 holds a special place in memory, affection, and myth. In this irresistible and moving book, Robert Wohl rescues it from the shadows of legend and brings it fully into the realm of understanding. He tells the story of the young men--the middle class elite of five European countries, France, Germany, England, Spain, and Italy, to recreate the generational c...(展开全部)

李欧梵，哈佛大学教授，1939年生于河南，后随家迁台湾。1970年获哈佛大学博士学位。专攻中国现代文学与文化，著有中英文著作《中国现代作家的浪漫一代》、《铁屋中的呐喊》、《西潮的彼岸》、《浪漫之余》、《中西文学的徊想》、《徘徊在现代与后现代之间》、《现代性的追求》、《上海摩登》，随笔集《狐狸洞话语》、《世纪末的沉思》等。

What Charles Rosen's celebrated book "The Classical Style" did for music of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it captures the spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in doing so it conveys the very sen...(展开全部)

What Charles Rosen's celebrated book "The Classical Style" did for music of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it captures the spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in doing so it conveys the very sen...(展开全部)

Years have passed since the end of the War of the Lance. The people of Ansalon have rebuilt their lives, their houses, their families. The Companions of the Lance, too, have returned to their homes, raising children and putting the days of their heroic deeds behind them. But peace on Krynn comes at a price. The forces of darkness are ever vigilant, searching for ways to erode ...(展开全部)

李欧梵，哈佛大学教授，1939年生于河南，后随家迁台湾。1970年获哈佛大学博士学位。专攻中国现代文学与文化，著有中英文著作《中国现代作家的浪漫一代》、《铁屋中的呐喊》、《西潮的彼岸》、《浪漫之余》、《中西文学的徊想》、《徘徊在现代与后现代之间》、《现代性的追求》、《上海摩登》，随笔集《狐狸洞话语》、《世纪末的沉思》等。

A master historian's account of the middle-class world of our grandparents and how its sudden collapse in World War I laid the basis for the catastrophes of the 20th century. 54 photos, maps, charts.

The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, 'The Age of Empire' covers the era of Western imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War I - and shaped modern society.

The Birth of the Modern World is a wonderfully ambitious book that effectively demonstrates the global nature of the modern world and the need to decentre national histories and think big. It is a 'thematic history' demonstrating how 'historical trends and sequences of events, which have been treated separately in regional or national histories, can be brought together' (p. 1)....(展开全部)