沙希利·浦洛基（Serhii Plokhy）哈佛大学俄罗斯及乌克兰史教授，也是东欧诸国史顶尖的研究学者，专攻俄罗斯及乌克兰现代史。他的著述丰富且有创见，曾经连续三年（2002-2005）获得美国乌克兰研究协会颁发的最佳著作奖项。他更于2009年获得古斯拉夫研究协会颁发的卓越学人奖。著有《雅尔塔—决定世界格局和历史进程的八天》和《斯拉夫民族之起源》等书。

On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to celebrate what he described as a historic American victory: Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation as Soviet prime minister and the subsequent fall of the Soviet Union. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the triumph of democratic values over communism, took cen...(展开全部)

On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to celebrate what he described as a historic American victory: Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation as Soviet prime minister and the subsequent fall of the Soviet Union. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the triumph of democratic values over communism, took cen...(展开全部)

In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving illumination . . . Remnick is the witness for us all." —Wall Street Journal.

In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving illumination . . . Remnick is the witness for us all." —Wall Street Journal.

For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, Canada to Sweden to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest species survive at these latitudes including the ic...(展开全部)

埃里克·埃克（Erick Eyck（1878—1964），生于德国柏林，曾就读于柏林大学和弗莱堡大学，以法律记者、议员的身份在上诉法院从事法律工作。1937年为躲避纳粹迫害，他移居英国，在伦敦大学和牛津大学讲学，并开始反思德意志民族崛起之路。埃克博士论著宏富，著有《魏玛共和国史》（商务印书馆，1994）、《俾斯麦研究》等论著。《俾斯麦与德意志帝国》是他以牛津大学的课堂讲义为基础写成的总结性专著，是公认的经典之作。

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edi...(展开全部)

罗威廉（William T. Rowe），1947年生，美国约翰霍普金斯大学历史系教授，东亚研究中心主任，当代美国最有影响的汉学家之一。他同时也是《晚期中华帝国》（Late Imperial China）杂志主编、《近代中国》（Modern China）和《城市史杂志》（Journal of Urban History）编委。主要研究方向为近代东亚的社会经济和城市史。著有“哈佛中国史”丛书第6卷《最后的中华帝国：大清》，以及《红雨：一个中国县城七个世纪的暴力史》、《汉口：一个中国城市的商业和社会（1796—1889）》、《汉口：一个中国城市的冲突和共同体（1796—1895）》等。 ------ 译者简介 李仁渊，哈佛大学历史与东亚研究博士。现为“中央研究院”历史语言研究所助研究员。研究领域为中国近现代社会与文化史。著有《晚清的新式传播媒体与知识分子...(展开全部)