休•托马斯 Hugh Thomas 英国历史学家，毕业于剑桥大学王后学院和索邦大学。著有多部历史类专著，包括《西班牙内战》《苏伊士运河事件》《未完成的世界史》《武装对峙》《征服：蒙特祖玛、科尔特斯与旧墨西哥的陨落》《奴隶贸易》以及“西班牙三部曲”（《黄金之河》《黄金时代》《无止境的世界》）等，其中《西班牙内战》获“毛姆文学奖”。1966至1976年在英国雷丁大学任教；1979至1991年在伦敦政策研究中心担任首席官员；2008年被授予艺术与文学勋章（法国政府文化部设立），并获“加巴龙奖”；2009年荣获“卡沃尔•谢列尔奖”“薄伽丘奖”及意大利“诺尼诺文学奖”。1981年，托马斯被授予终身贵族身份，成为斯温纳顿的托马斯勋爵。

Following "Rivers of Gold" and "The Golden Empire "and" "building on five centuries of scholarship, "World Without End "is the epic conclusion of an unprecedented three-volume history of the Spanish Empire from one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times ("The New York Times Book Review"). The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many hands. But the...(展开全部)

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World Without End. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelf...(展开全部)

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most anticipated sequel of the year-World Without End.

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most anticipated sequel of the year-World Without End.

From 1556 until his death in 1598, Philip II of Spain ruled the first global empire in history. This book investigates the strengths and weaknesses of Philip's strategic vision, the priorities that underlay his policies, the practices and prejudices that influneced his decision-making, and the external factors that affected the achievements of his goals. Geoffrey Parker begins ...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY GRAND PRIX A tribute to George Orwell's 1984 and a cry of protest against totalitarianism of all kinds, Sansal's 2084 tells the story of a near future in which Islamic fundamentalists have established an oppressive caliphate where autonomus thought is forbidden. It is the year 2084. In the kingdom of Abistan—named after the prophet Abi, earthly mess...(展开全部)

约翰·达尔文，英国著名历史学家，专注于研究帝国的历史，特别是大英帝国历史，既包括帝国的兴起，也包括它们的衰落。他如今在剑桥大学教授帝国史和全球史，是纳菲尔德学院的研究员。他因作品《后帖木儿时代》获得英国历史学界殊荣“沃尔夫森历史学奖”。

John Darwin won the Wolfson History Prize for his book "After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires". In "Unfinished Empire" he examines the enormous influence of the British Empire. It has shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out modern nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its existence, e...(展开全部)

The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel's scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, dem...(展开全部)