On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Moghuls rests.” Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, was a mystic, an accomplished poet and ...(展开全部)

In this evocative study of the fall of Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in steep decline. Nonetheless, Zafar—a mystic, poet, and calligrapher ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 汤姆•霍兰（Tom Holland）英国著名历史学家，著有多部畅销作品，尤其擅长古希腊罗马历史写作。《王朝》一书的前作《卢比孔河》（Rubicon）获塞缪尔•约翰逊奖提名，并荣获2004年赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史学奖，《波斯战火》（Persian Fire）获2006年朗西曼奖。霍兰曾翻译了希罗多德的《历史》，并为英国广播公司（BBC）改编了荷马、修昔底德、维吉尔等人的作品。他于2007年荣获古典协会奖，该奖主要授予“在促进古希腊罗马语言、文学及文明之研究上做出突出贡献的学者”。 【译者简介】 严华容，西南政法大学法律英语学士，历史迷与语言迷，精通英语与西语，译有《来份杂碎：中餐在美国的文化史》。

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors. Dynasty continues Rubicon's story, opening where that book ended: with the mur...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 汤姆•霍兰（Tom Holland）英国著名历史学家，著有多部畅销作品，尤其擅长古希腊罗马历史写作。《王朝》一书的前作《卢比孔河》（Rubicon）获塞缪尔•约翰逊奖提名，并荣获2004年赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史学奖，《波斯战火》（Persian Fire）获2006年朗西曼奖。霍兰曾翻译了希罗多德的《历史》，并为英国广播公司（BBC）改编了荷马、修昔底德、维吉尔等人的作品。他于2007年荣获古典协会奖，该奖主要授予“在促进古希腊罗马语言、文学及文明之研究上做出突出贡献的学者”。 【译者简介】 严华容，西南政法大学法律英语学士，历史迷与语言迷，精通英语与西语，译有《来份杂碎：中餐在美国的文化史》。

◎著者简介 爱德华·克兰克肖（Edward Crankshaw，1909—1984），知名作家，在欧洲文化和政治史方面享有盛名。1947—1968年，他担任英国《观察家报》的驻外记者，专门研究苏联事务，撰写了多部相关著作。此外，他对奥地利的历史一直颇感兴趣，《维也纳：一个衰落的文化形象》等就是这一主题广受好评的专著。 ◎译者简介 田婧，北京人，2013年毕业于首都师范大学历史学院，世界史博士，现任职中央司法警官学院，曾赴美国夏威夷大学及法国巴黎高等师范学院访学。主要从事全球史、法律史的教学和科研工作，译有《世界史导航：全球视角的构建》等著作。

The story of the love that ended an empire In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish ...(展开全部)

In Capital, Commonwealth Prize–winning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the great trends of our time: the expansion of the global elite. Capital is an intimate portrait of the city of Delhi which bears witness to the extraordinary transmogrification of India’s capital. But it also offers a glimpse of what capitalism will become in the coming, post-Western world. The story ...(展开全部)

Since the opening up of India’s economy in 1991, wealth has poured into the country, and especially into Delhi. Capital bears witness to the astonishing metamorphosis of India’s capital city, charting its emergence from a rural backwater to the center of India’s new elites. No other place on earth better embodies the breakneck, radically disruptive nature of the global economy’...(展开全部)

Book Description The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made "The Last of the Mohicans "the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican fiends Cingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and...(展开全部)