The definitive general history of the Zionist movement, by one of the most distinguished historians of our time. Walter Laqueur traces Zionism from its beginnings—with the emancipation of European Jewry from the ghettos in the wake of the French Revolution—to 1948, when the Zionist dream became a reality. He describes the contributions of such notable figures as Benjamin Disra...(展开全部)

A major new history of Zionism and Israel, by the renowned author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine In this groundbreaking work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside of the government and military in areas such as the country’s education system, media, and cinema. In particular, Pappe examin...(展开全部)

盖伊·布莱德利（Guy Bradley），英国卡迪夫大学古代史教授，主要研究领域为罗马早期历史和考古学、罗马共和国和早期帝国历史、古代世界的文化变迁和种族、古代意大利人和罗马殖民。除本书外，还著有《古代意大利人》《古代翁布里亚：从铁器时代到奥古斯都时代意大利中部的国家、文化和身份》。此外，他还参与了许多书籍的编写工作，如《伊特鲁里亚和意大利社会的政治和公民身份》《罗马共和国》。

盖伊·布莱德利（Guy Bradley），英国卡迪夫大学古代史教授，主要研究领域为罗马早期历史和考古学、罗马共和国和早期帝国历史、古代世界的文化变迁和种族、古代意大利人和罗马殖民。除本书外，还著有《古代意大利人》《古代翁布里亚：从铁器时代到奥古斯都时代意大利中部的国家、文化和身份》。此外，他还参与了许多书籍的编写工作，如《伊特鲁里亚和意大利社会的政治和公民身份》《罗马共和国》。

A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets. In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of ...(展开全部)

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Isaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our century's leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English. Eight of the nine pieces included here are published for the first time, and their range is characteristically wide: the subjects explored inc...(展开全部)

Germania is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. A very funny book on serious topics---how we are misled by history, how we twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. It is a book full of curiosities: ...(展开全部)

In this classic, originally published 25 years ago and now reprinted with a new Afterword by the author on how he came to write the book, Judson tells the story of the birth and early development of molecular biology, in the US, the UK and France. In particular, the fascinating account of the remarkable golden period from the revelation of the double helix structure of DNA thro...(展开全部)