The Soviet Union was a notoriously closed society until Stalin’s death in 1953. Then, in the mid-1950s, a torrent of Western novels, films, and paintings invaded Soviet streets and homes, acquiring heightened emotional significance. To See Paris and Die is a history of this momentous opening to the West. At the heart of this history is a process of translation, in which Western...(展开全部)

约翰•卡洛尔（John Carroll） 墨尔本拉托贝大学（La Trobe University）社会学教授。著有《自我与灵魂：寻找意义的现代西方》（Ego and Soul: the modern west in search of meaning, 1998），《西方梦想》（The Western Dreaming, 2001）以及《恐怖：9•11事件意义的沉思》（Terror: a meditation on the meaning of September 11, 2002）

Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world’s imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of Soviet citizens held unauthorized public gatherings, petitioned in support of arrested intellectuals, and circulated banned samizdat texts. Soviet authorities arrested dissidents, ...(展开全部)

Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world’s imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of Soviet citizens held unauthorized public gatherings, petitioned in support of arrested intellectuals, and circulated banned samizdat texts. Soviet authorities arrested dissidents, ...(展开全部)

约翰•卡洛尔（John Carroll） 墨尔本拉托贝大学（La Trobe University）社会学教授。著有《自我与灵魂：寻找意义的现代西方》（Ego and Soul: the modern west in search of meaning, 1998），《西方梦想》（The Western Dreaming, 2001）以及《恐怖：9•11事件意义的沉思》（Terror: a meditation on the meaning of September 11, 2002）

From the ""master of historical narrative"" (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work--the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture The nineteenth century in Europe was the first age of cultural globalization--an epoch when mass communications and high-speed rail travel brought Europe together, overcoming national barriers and crea...(展开全部)

'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more' Peter Frankopan From the bestselling author of Natasha's Dance, The Europeans is richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-centu...(展开全部)

From the “master of historical narrative” (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work―the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture. The nineteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented artistic achievement. It was also the first age of cultural globalization―an epoch when mass communications and high-speed rail travel brought...(展开全部)

Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography o...(展开全部)