This is a book about a world in a life. Conceived in Jamaica and possibly mixed-race, Elizabeth Marsh (1735-1785) traveled farther and was more intimately affected by developments across the globe than the vast majority of men. She was the first woman to publish in English on Morocco, and the first to carry out extensive explorations in eastern and southern India. A creature of...(展开全部)

【英】琳达·科利 英国皇家历史学会和皇家文学学会成员，普林斯顿历史学教授，曾任教于剑桥大学、耶鲁大学和伦敦政治经济学院，主要研究方向为英国史、帝国史、全球史。其他代表作品包括《挑战寡头政治:1714—1760年的托利党》《纳米尔》《英国人：国家的形成，1707—1837年》《囚徒：1600—1850年的英国、帝国和世界》。《纽约时报》曾评价她为“当今最杰出、最尖锐、最具原创性的英国历史学家之一”。 侯奕茜 四川外国语大学副教授、硕士生导师，主要研究方向为隐喻翻译及女性主义翻译，出版译著多部。

In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a radically transforming world.Marsh was conceived in Jamaica, lived in London, Gibraltar, and Menorca, visited the Cape of Africa ...(展开全部)

In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a radically transforming world.Marsh was conceived in Jamaica, lived in London, Gibraltar, and Menorca, visited the Cape of Africa ...(展开全部)

This is a book about a world in a life. Conceived in Jamaica and possibly mixed-race, Elizabeth Marsh (1735-1785) traveled farther and was more intimately affected by developments across the globe than the vast majority of men. She was the first woman to publish in English on Morocco, and the first to carry out extensive explorations in eastern and southern India. A creature of...(展开全部)

【英】琳达·科利 英国皇家历史学会和皇家文学学会成员，普林斯顿历史学教授，曾任教于剑桥大学、耶鲁大学和伦敦政治经济学院，主要研究方向为英国史、帝国史、全球史。其他代表作品包括《挑战寡头政治:1714—1760年的托利党》《纳米尔》《英国人：国家的形成，1707—1837年》《囚徒：1600—1850年的英国、帝国和世界》。《纽约时报》曾评价她为“当今最杰出、最尖锐、最具原创性的英国历史学家之一”。 侯奕茜 四川外国语大学副教授、硕士生导师，主要研究方向为隐喻翻译及女性主义翻译，出版译著多部。

The China Society for People's Friendship Studies (PFS) in cooperation with the Foreign Languages Press (FLP)in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled light on China, of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People's Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolutionary events des...(展开全部)

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of traditional histories, which have tended to be Eurocentric, telling mankind's story through tales of Greece and Rome and the crowned heads of Europe's oldest monarchies. Here he widen...(展开全部)

Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, "A History of the World in 10 Chapters" presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mou...(展开全部)

This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!