This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France’s King Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715). Yet most stud...(展开全部)

The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected through animal dissection and vivisection. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Parisian scientists, with the support of the king, d...(展开全部)

The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history still inhabits an isolated corner of world history, according to editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Benton and Perl-Rosenthal urge historians to place the relationship b...(展开全部)

《最小说》最受读者喜爱的新生代作家 文字技巧与情节铺设并驾齐驱 最世文化一线实力派代表王小立 在处女作《任凭这空虚沸腾》创造出超过三十万的惊人销售记录之后，她却沉寂至今。时至今日，她终于带来了这本滚烫的冷书——《又冷又明亮》：一个在【赢不了】，却又【不想输】之间，苦苦挣扎的【励志】而又【虐心】的故事——这酸涩的剧情，像极了【恋爱】本身。

The nineteenth century saw several major innovations in naval warfare. Reliable steam engines made it so that ships no longer depended on the wind and could maneuver more freely. At the same time, new explosive shells were developed, replacing cannonballs, and no wooden ship could withstand them. In response to these shells, a new class of self-propelled, armored "ironclads" wa...(展开全部)

A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea—revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. The Sea and Civi...(展开全部)

A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the lens of maritime travel, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways. Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-dis...(展开全部)

威廉·索登·西姆斯，美国海军上将，海军战争学院院长。他是19世纪末和20世纪初美国海军现代化的推动人物。在第一次世界大战期间，他是美国海军大西洋-欧洲战区司令，是打败德国无限制潜艇战的指挥者与见证者。 伯顿·杰西·亨德里克，美国作家，先后获得耶鲁大学学士学位与硕士学位。《纽黑文早间新闻》《纽约晚报》《纽约太阳报》《麦克卢尔杂志》《世界工作杂志》编辑。 ² 译者简介 吴安红，西北师范大学外国语学院讲师，硕士研究生学历，资深翻译，发表学术论文三篇，参加课题两项。

威廉·索登·西姆斯，美国海军上将，海军战争学院院长。他是19世纪末和20世纪初美国海军现代化的推动人物。在第一次世界大战期间，他是美国海军大西洋-欧洲战区司令，是打败德国无限制潜艇战的指挥者与见证者。 伯顿·杰西·亨德里克，美国作家，先后获得耶鲁大学学士学位与硕士学位。《纽黑文早间新闻》《纽约晚报》《纽约太阳报》《麦克卢尔杂志》《世界工作杂志》编辑。 ² 译者简介 吴安红，西北师范大学外国语学院讲师，硕士研究生学历，资深翻译，发表学术论文三篇，参加课题两项。