Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full in this edition. With style, learning and wit, Gibbon takes the reader throu...(展开全部)

Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly port...(展开全部)

大卫·休谟（David Hume，1711—1776），英国著名哲学家、历史学家和经济学家，苏格兰启蒙运动代表人物之一。主要著作有《人性论》《人类理智研究》《道德原理研究》《宗教的自然史》《自然宗教对话录》《英国史》等。 石小竹，自由职业翻译家，曾参与我馆斯密著作的翻译。译者文笔典雅，措辞精当。

The dream Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar shared of uniting Europe, the Medi-terranean, and the Middle East in a single community shuddered and then collapsed in the wars and disasters of the sixth century. Historian and classicist James J. O'Donnell—who last brought readers his masterful, disturbing, and revelatory biography of Saint Augustine—revisits this old story in ...(展开全部)

The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200 - 118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted b...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 乔基姆·惠利,英国历史学者和语言学者,在剑桥大学教授德国历史和思想。1984 年当选英国皇家历史学会会员,2015年当选英国科学院院士。主要著作有《汉堡的宗教容忍和社会变化(1529~1819)》及两卷本《德意志与神圣罗马帝国》。 【译者简介】 李启明,英语译者,毕业于清华大学经济管理学院,经济学学士、理学学士。