From Ancient Greece to the dawn of the 21st century, this text unravels all of the tightly woven social, cultural, economic and political strands of European history. It looks at the creation of huge empires - including the Roman, Spanish and Soviet - and at the once unimaginable prospect of a united federal Europe. The lives and achievements of figures from all aspects of Euro...(展开全部)

In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant here traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern world. Four years before his death, Will Durant began work on an abbreviated version of his highly...(展开全部)

In AD 70, after a war which had flared sporadically for 4 years, 3 Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus, surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only 80 years earlier. What brought about this extraordinary conflict, with its extraordinary...(展开全部)

This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while giving weight to the characteristics of each country. This narrative history employs the methods of "history from beneath" to connect leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is a tapestry from which...(展开全部)

How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today. The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which successive generations have reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary wor...(展开全部)

The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-modern stake. This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major ...(展开全部)

罗纳德·赫顿（Ronald Hutton） 英国布里斯托大学历史学教授、英国皇家历史学会会员、英国文化遗产信托基金专员，研究领域涉及基督宗教、民间传说和民俗文化。其著作主题广泛，包括14至17世纪英国史、英国古代和现代异教，以及西伯利亚萨满教等。

由英国学者鲁唯一（Michael Loewe）与美国汉学家夏含夷（Edward L.Shaughnessy）等人所编著的《剑桥中国上古史：从文明的起源到公元前221年》（The Cambridge History of Ancient China：From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C.）已经于1999年由英国剑桥大学出版社出版发行。尽管迄今为止该书中译本仍未面世而不免使人有遗珠之憾，但该书不仅反映了西方数代汉学家所秉持的迥异的研究方法与理论素养而具有相当的学术性与可读性。而且该书的分析视角和学术思路也值得在中国先秦史研究中加以镜鉴，从而开拓并深入中国的先秦史研究的内容与视界。 该书内容翔实而不仅仅是对史料的简单汇编，全书恰好地将传世文献资料和考古文物资料互为补充，基本上对中国先秦时代的主要领域和研究动...(展开全部)

This text offers a rapid overview of European civilisation, describing its birth from an unlikely mixture of three elements - classical learning, Christianity & German warrior culture. Over the centuries, this unstable blend produced distinctive characters, & its coming apart provided the dynamic of European history in modern times.

Since its publication twenty years ago, J. M. Roberts's monumental History of the World has remained the "unrivaled World History of our day" (A. J. P. Taylor), selling more than a quarter of a million copies worldwide. Now in an equally masterful performance, Roberts displays his consummate skills of exposition in telling the tale of the European continent, from its Neolithic...(展开全部)