The 17th and 18th centuries saw a 'flowering' of botanical illustration and witnessed the production of some of the greatest books of plant illustration ever produced, including such outstanding examples as the Hortus Eystettensis, the work of Maria Sybilla Merian, Thornton's Temple of Flora, Banks's Florilegium and Sibthorpe's Flora Graeca. During this period several developme...(展开全部)

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw a flowering of botanical illustration and witnessed the production of some of the greatest books of plant illustration ever produced, including such outstanding examples as the Hortus Eystettensis, the work of Maria Sybilla Merian, Thornton's Temple of Flora, Banks's Florilegium and Sibthorpe's Flora Graeca. In this beautiful book, C...(展开全部)

The 400 years which followed the spread of Islam in the 7th century brought a unique fusion of cultures to Persia as Islam was embraced and continuity with Persian heritage maintained. This book describes these centuries of great achievement in the arts, sciences and medicine.

安德斯·温罗特（Anders Winroth） 1965年生于瑞典卢德维卡，现任耶鲁大学中世纪史教授。从斯德哥尔摩大学毕业之后，他于哥伦比亚大学攻读硕士及博士学位，师从美国哲学家、社会学家罗贝特·萨默维尔（Robert Somerville）教授。此后赴纽卡斯尔大学从事博士后研究，并在那里成为“詹姆斯·克诺特爵士”研究员，与著名中世纪史学者罗伯特·伊恩·摩尔（R.I.Moore）共事。 温罗特教授专攻中世纪欧洲史，尤其是宗教、文化和法律史，以及维京史，此外，他在瑞典谱系学研究中也颇有建树。 2003年，温罗特因其在中世纪教会法相关研究中展现出的非凡创造力荣获“麦克阿瑟奖”。

杰里米·布莱克（Jeremy Black） 英国埃克塞特大学历史学教授，军事与外交史专家，曾在西点军校、德克萨斯基督教大学和斯蒂尔曼学院担任客座教授。2008年获得美国军事史学会颁发的“塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖”。2018年成为英国外交政策研究所的邓普顿研究员。他曾出版100多本历史著作，包括《绘制过去：18世纪英格兰的历史世界》《绘制莎士比亚：通过地图探索莎士比亚的世界》等。

杰里米·布莱克（Jeremy Black） 英国埃克塞特大学历史学教授，军事与外交史专家，曾在西点军校、德克萨斯基督教大学和斯蒂尔曼学院担任客座教授。2008年获得美国军事史学会颁发的“塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖”。2018年成为英国外交政策研究所的邓普顿研究员。他曾出版100多本历史著作，包括《绘制过去：18世纪英格兰的历史世界》《绘制莎士比亚：通过地图探索莎士比亚的世界》等。

This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. In this brilliant work that moves far beyond the conventions of social or cultural history, Simon Schama investigates the astonishing case of a people's self-invention. He shows how, ...(展开全部)

Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings ...(展开全部)

Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings ...(展开全部)

小阿瑟·M.施莱辛格（Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.，1917—2007） 小阿瑟·M.施莱辛格是美国最具声望和富有争议的重量级历史学家、政治评论家，同时也是专栏作家、影评人、《财富》杂志和《生活》杂志的自由撰稿人，曾任哈佛大学历史系教授和肯尼迪总统的特别助理。一生中获得过两次普利策奖、两次美国国家图书奖和一次美国历史学最高奖项班克罗夫特奖。他于1965年被选为《时代》周刊封面人物，1998年被授予美国国家人文奖章。