克雷格•L.西蒙兹（Craig L. Symonds），一流的海洋历史学家，美国军事历史学会理事，美国海军学院荣休教授，曾任该学院历史系主任，著有多部有关美国海军历史的书籍，包括《海上决断：塑造美国历史的五场海战》（罗斯福海军历史奖）、《林肯和他的海军将领》（林肯奖）、《中途岛战役》（《军事史季刊》年度图书奖）、《海王行动：诺曼底登陆》（塞缪尔•莫里森海军文学奖）、《葛底斯堡战役》、《战争中的尼米兹》等。《决战大洋：第二次世界大战海战全史》是他的集大成之作，全面讲述了1939年到1945年间，所有参战国在世界各地洋面上进行的海上较量。

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)

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)

Sean McMeekin is Professor of History at Bard College, New York. For some years he taught at Bilkent University, Ankara. His books include the highly successful The Berlin-Baghdad Express (Penguin), The Russian Origins of the First World War and The Ottoman Endgame (Penguin).

A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin--not Hitler--was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia--and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did...(展开全部)

作者 安德鲁·N. 布坎南，美国佛蒙特大学高级讲师，历史学博士。先后毕业于牛津大学、罗格斯大学。已出版《第二次世界大战期间美国地中海大战略》《从世界大战到战后世界：革命、冷战、非殖民化和美国霸权的崛起（1943—1958）》等专著。 译者 张士伟，武汉大学历史学院副教授，博士生导师，中国第二次世界大战史研究会副秘书长、理事。在《世界历史》、《近代史研究》、《史林》、《历史》（History）等中英文期刊发表论文近 20 篇，著有《新秩序的肇启：中国与布雷顿森林体系的诞生（1940—1946）》《美国与世界经济秩序的变革（1916—1955）》，译有《布雷顿森林被遗忘的基石：国际发展与战后秩序的构建》等。

[英]保罗·肯尼迪（Paul Kennedy，1945—），国际关系史和战略史巨擘，耶鲁大学迪尔沃思历史学教授，耶鲁大学国际安全研究项目主管，英国国家学术院院士，英国皇家历史学会会士，美国哲学学会会士，美国艺术与科学院院士，牛津大学博士，曾任英国皇家历史学会会长、普林斯顿高等研究院研究员、亚历山大·冯·洪堡基金会研究员。2000 年，他因在历史学领域的贡献被授予大英帝国司令勋章。2014 年，他因在海事历史研究领域的贡献，荣获了美国海军战争学院的哈滕多夫奖。 他的代表作《大国的兴衰》自1988年出版以来已被翻译成20多种语言，在全球产生了巨大影响。他的代表作还有《英国海上霸权的兴衰》《英德对抗的兴起，1860—1914》《战争与和平的大战略》《联合国：过去与未来》《二战解密：盟军如何扭转战局并赢得胜利》等。他目前还是众多学术期刊编辑委员会的成员，并为...(展开全部)

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism? Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation, it has been continually redefined as new generations of women campaign against the gend...(展开全部)

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism? Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation, it has been continually redefined as new generations of women campaign against the gend...(展开全部)

From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancro...(展开全部)