J.M.罗伯茨（1928—2003），英国著名公众史学家，牛津大学历史学教授，著有数十部具有广泛影响力的历史学作品，并曾为BBC《西方的胜利》《人民的世纪》等多个深受欢迎的历史节目系列担任主创、解说或历史顾问。他因“在教育与历史领域的贡献”荣获大英帝国勋章，还曾获得意大利荣誉骑士勋章。他还是《企鹅欧洲史》和《企鹅20世纪世界史》的作者。 O.A.维斯塔德，生于挪威， 1998年起担任伦敦经济学院国际关系史教授。他已出版15部关于现当代国际关系史的著作，其中包括荣获班克罗夫特奖的《全球冷战史》和《决定性的相遇》。他还担任了《剑桥冷战史》的联合主编，以及《冷战史》期刊的编辑。他的最新著作为《不安的帝国：1750年以来的中国与世界》。

In November 1519, Hernando Corts walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans we...(展开全部)

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)

A very clear, reliable and readable history of economic thought from the ancient world to the present day. From Homer to Marx to John Stuart Mill, Backhouse shows how to keep your Keynsians from your post-Keynsians and New Keynsians. This is a core book.

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure a...(展开全部)

彼得·弗兰科潘（Peter Frankopan） ` 英国著名历史学家。牛津大学伍斯特学院高级研究员，牛津大学拜占庭研究中心主任。曾多次在哈佛大学、剑桥大学、牛津大学、耶鲁大学、普林斯顿大学、纽约大学等世界顶尖学府公开演讲。

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure a...(展开全部)

An illuminating and highly readable survey of the growth of scientific ideas. It's a history of natural science——from the astronomy of ancient Babylon to the astrophysics of today's space research centers. This book is originally published in 1953 and has been reprinted 27 times and translated into seven languages. "By far the best one-volume account in English of the developme...(展开全部)

E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text su...(展开全部)