《宅兹中国：宝鸡出土青铜器与金文精华》是一部有关陕西鸡宝出土的青铜器与金文的作品，分“吉金文字、交相辉映”“鸿功令德、铭传万世”“天人之际、智慧存焉”三个单元，从人文、历史、艺术、信仰等不同角度解读上古遗存，引导大家走进神秘奇谲、波澜壮阔的青铜器与金文世界，欣赏生动有趣、仪态万方的金文艺术，解读扣人心弦、引人入胜的金文故事，领略格物致知、穷理尽性的金文智慧。
《宅兹中国：宝鸡出土青铜器与金文精华》是一部有关陕西鸡宝出土的青铜器与金文的作品，分“吉金文字、交相辉映”“鸿功令德、铭传万世”“天人之际、智慧存焉”三个单元，从人文、历史、艺术、信仰等不同角度解读上古遗存，引导大家走进神秘奇谲、波澜壮阔的青铜器与金文世界，欣赏生动有趣、仪态万方的金文艺术，解读扣人心弦、引人入胜的金文故事，领略格物致知、穷理尽性的金文智慧。
This handsomely illustrated volume commemorates AbrahamLincoln’s 200th birthday and gives rare insight into the Presidentwho shook the world—and whose words and example endure today innations from Siberia to Mexico to Pakistan. This is the officialbook of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM)in Springfield, Illinois that has welcomed more than one millionvisitors since its 2005 opening. Using the exhibition halls as a launching point, this book offersstories, anecdotes, and never-before-seen images and artifacts fromthe museum’s vault. It positions Lincoln as a man of his century, atime ripe with Industrial Revolution, travel and culture,abolition, and war. Worldwide events figure into the story:Britain’s emergence as a democracy, Russia’s freeing of the serfs,Japan’s opening to foreign trade, Germany’s unity underBismarck. Every page reflects the humor, integrity, and unique style ofleadership that made Abe Lincoln a legend. Quote boxes reveal hissayings
On 2 August 1944, Winston Churchill mocked Adolf Hitler in theHouse of Commons by the rank he had reached in the First World War.'Russian success has been somewhat aided by the strategy of HerrHitler, of Corporal Hitler', Churchill jibed. 'Even military idiotsfind it difficult not to see some faults in his actions'. AndrewRoberts' previous book "Masters and Commanders" studied thecreation of Allied grand strategy; "The Storm of War" now analyzeshow Axis strategy evolved. Examining the Second World War on everyfront, Roberts asks whether, with a different decision-makingprocess and a different strategy, the Axis might even have won.Were those German generals who blamed everything on Hitler afterthe war correct, or were they merely scapegoating their formerFuhrer once he was safely beyond defending himself? The book isfull of illuminating sidelights on the principle actors that bringtheir characters and the ways in which they reached decisions intofresh focus.
姚广孝是元末明初杰出的佛教人物，与姚广孝相关的历史遗迹，如姚广孝墓塔、天宁寺、汇通祠、永乐大钟、《永乐大典》等，多成为北京乃至全国的重要文物。姚广孝在政治、军事、文学、科技诸方面也有巨大成就，尤以参与策划“靖难之役”、辅佐燕王朱棣夺取帝位而名垂史册，后又拜为明两代帝王之师，成为中国历史上著名的“缁衣宰相”。由郑永华编著的《姚广孝史事研究》通过发掘与利用姚广孝的诗文、著述，以及碑刻、实录、文集等各种原始史料，对姚广孝的生平与交往进行了全面研究，就相关史事进行了详细考辨，更正了长期以来的讹误，为研究姚广孝这一重要的宗教与政治历史人物奠定了基础，具有较大的学术价值。又北京还长期流传许多与姚广孝相关的历史与人文传说，深入研究与北京历史有关的人物、弘扬北京历史文化，对建设“人文北京”
A masterpiece o f the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’s TheSpanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrativeof one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of thetwentieth century. Revised and updated with significant newmaterial, including new revelations about atrocities perpetratedagainst civilians by both sides in this epic conflict, this"definitive work on the subject" (Richard Bernstein, The NewYork Times ) has been given a fresh face forty years after itsinitial publication in 1961. In brilliant, moving detail, Thomasanalyzes a devastating conflict in which the hopes, dreams, anddogmas of a century exploded onto the battlefield. Like no otheraccount, The Spanish Civil War dramatically reassembles theevents that led a European nation, in a continent on the brink ofworld war, to divide against itself, bringing into play themachinations of Franco and Hitler, the bloodshed of Guernica, andthe deeply inspiring heroics of those who rallied to the side ofdemocracy. Communists, an
Drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, publicdeclarations, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda, The American Revolution brings together over 120 pieces bymore than 70 participants to create a unique literary panorama ofthe War of Independence. From Paul Revere's own narrative of hisride in April 1775 to an account of George Washington's resignationfrom command of the Army in December 1783, the volume presentsfirsthand all the major events of the conflict-the early battles ofLexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill; the failed American invasionof Canada; the battle of Saratoga; the fighting in the South andalong the western frontier; and the decisive triumph atYorktown. Famous figures-Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Benedict Arnold,John and Abigail Adams-are here alongside lesser known participantslike Samuel Blachley Webb describing courage and panic at BunkerHill or Sarah Hodgkins writing longingly to her absent soldierhusband. American Loyalists and British officers and offici
This book traces the history of Europe from the end of WorldWar II to 1992, the scheduled reunification of Western Europe. Itexamines the East European revolution of 1989 and the changes inthe Soviet Union, as well as assessing the aftermath of the ColdWar, the post-war period that most commentators feel has come to anend. The unification of Western Europe and the disintegration ofthe Soviet empire, the author argues, doesn't mark the end ofhistory, as some claim, but the beginning of another era, of a newEurope, one quite unlike, yet in some ways parallel to the Europethat presided over the world at the end of the previouscentury.
The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M.Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of theachievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundredyears. Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism inthe seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialistIslamic upheavals of the twenty-first century, Sachar applies hisrenowned narrative skill to the central role of the Jews in many ofthe most impressive achievements of modern civilization: whether inthe rise of economic capitalism or of political socialism; in thediscoveries of theoretical physics or applied medicine; in “higher”literary criticism or mass communication and popularentertainment. As his account unfolds and moves from epoch to epoch, fromcontinent to continent, from Europe to the Americas and the MiddleEast, Sachar evaluates communities that, until lately, have beenunderestimated in the perspective of Jewish and world history—amongthem, Jews of Sephardic
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, PulitzerPrize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the greatuntold stories of American history: the decades-long migration ofblack citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities,in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus ofalmost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkersoncompares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples inhistory. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gainedaccess to new data and official records, to write this definitiveand vividly dramatic account of how these American journeysunfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this storythrough the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, whoin 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi forChicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in oldage, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senateseat; sh
A History of Queensland is the first single volume analysis ofQueensland's past, stretching from the time of earliest humanhabitation up to the present. It encompasses pre-contact Aboriginalhistory, the years of convictism, free settlement and subsequenturban and rural growth. It takes the reader through the tumultuousfrontier and Federation years, the World Wars, the Cold War, thecontroversial Bjelke-Petersen era and on, beyond the beginning ofthe new millennium. It reveals Queensland as a sprawling, harsh,diverse and conflictual place, where the struggles of race,ethnicity, class, generation and gender have been particularlypronounced, and political and environmental encounters haveremained intense. It is a colourful, surprising and at timesdisturbing saga, a perplexing and diverting mixture of ferocity,endurance and optimism.
FORT SUMTER TO PERRYVILLE "Anyone who wants to relive the Civil War, as thousands ofAmericans apparently do, will go through this volume withpleasure.... Years from now, Foote's monumental narrative mostlikely will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of itskind."--New York Herald Tribune Book Review "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narrativesof our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that mustbe firmly placed in the ranks of the masters."--Van Allen Bradley,Chicago Daily News
姚广孝是元末明初杰出的佛教人物，与姚广孝相关的历史遗迹，如姚广孝墓塔、天宁寺、汇通祠、永乐大钟、《永乐大典》等，多成为北京乃至全国的重要文物。姚广孝在政治、军事、文学、科技诸方面也有巨大成就，尤以参与策划“靖难之役”、辅佐燕王朱棣夺取帝位而名垂史册，后又拜为明两代帝王之师，成为中国历史上著名的“缁衣宰相”。由郑永华编著的《姚广孝史事研究》通过发掘与利用姚广孝的诗文、著述，以及碑刻、实录、文集等各种原始史料，对姚广孝的生平与交往进行了全面研究，就相关史事进行了详细考辨，更正了长期以来的讹误，为研究姚广孝这一重要的宗教与政治历史人物奠定了基础，具有较大的学术价值。又北京还长期流传许多与姚广孝相关的历史与人文传说，深入研究与北京历史有关的人物、弘扬北京历史文化，对建设“人文北京”
This work presents the last fifty years of tumultuous MiddleEast history - told from the unique perspective of a former RussianPrime Minister and sometime spy Yevgeny Primakov. Part memoir, parthistorical account, "Russia and the Arabs" tells the story of thepast 50 years' developments in the Middle East from a Russian pointof view. Over his long career as a "Pravda" journalist withmysteriously deep sources and a habit of acting on assignment fromthe highest circles of the Soviet government, Yevgeny Primakovformed personal relationships with nearly every leader of note inthe Arab world, from Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat to YasirArafat to Saddam Hussein. He was sent on secret missions tonegotiate Soviet recognition with at least five different Israeliprime ministers; he was there for parties on yachts in the Nilewith Nikita Khrushchev; and, he was the first journalist tointerview the new leader of Iraq in 1964 and the last to speak withLebanese Prime Minister Rufik Hariri, five days before he wasa
At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousandAmericans loyal to the British cause fled the United States andbecame refugees throughout the British Empire. This groundbreakingbook offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus toCanada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. Followingextraordinary journeys like the one of Elizabeth Johnston, a youngmother from Georgia, who led her growing family to Britain,Jamaica, and Canada, questing for a home; black loyalists such asDavid George, who escaped from slavery in Virginia and went on tofound Baptist congregations in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone; andMohawk Indian leader Joseph Brant, who tried to find autonomy forhis people in Ontario, Liberty’s Exiles challengesconventional understandings about the founding of the United Statesand the shaping of the postrevolutionary world. Based on originalresearch on four continents, this book is at once an intimatenarrative history and a provocative new analysis—a story about thepast that
From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes amagnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, whenSpain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written arich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder.At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought the French andexpanded the Spanish empire, and the bold conquistadors who werehis agents. Thomas brings to life King Charles V—first as a ganglyand easygoing youth, then as a liberal statesman who exceeded allhis predecessors in his ambitions for conquest (while making sureto maintain the humanity of his new subjects in the Americas), andfinally as a besieged Catholic leader obsessed with Protestantheresy and interested only in profiting from those he presidedover. The Golden Empire also presents the legendary men whom KingCharles V sent on perilous and unprecedented expeditions: HernánCortés, who ruled the “New Spain” of Mexico as an absolutemonarch—and whose rebuilding of its capital, Tenochti
This is the sequel to the first volume of Ancient HebrewIn*ions: Corpus and Concordance, published in 1991. Itcontains some 750 in*ions from the Old Testament period whichwere mainly published for the first time between 1990 and 2000.Some were discovered in regular archaeological excavations, otherscome from private collections. The new material includes ostracafrom different sites, which are of religious, literary andhistorical importance, and extensive information about the personalnames which were in use in the biblical period. The number ofcoin-legends and other texts from the Persian and early Hellenisticperiods has also been enlarged. Each text is supplied with a briefde*ion, an approximate date and publication information. Theconcordance provides an easy way to discover which Hebrew words andproper names occur in non-biblical sources and helps greatly towiden the basis for Hebrew language study.
《吳越題銘研究》全面汇集了传世和出土的吴越铭刻数据，分为一、吴王室铜器题铭；二、越王室铜器题铭；三、其他吴越题铭。书中在总结学界研究的基础上，充分运用古文字学、古文献学、历史考古学的方法，系统梳理并考证了从吴王寿梦到夫差各代吴王室的题铭资料60余种，从越王允常、句践以至于越王无颛各代越王室的题铭100余种。书中对吴越王名称和吴越题铭的释读、器物的研究提出了许多新的见解，例如吴王虘矣工吴即吴王余祭另一名戴吴，邗王是野戈是晋人为夫差作器，新考释出了允常、诸咎、初无余、无颛等越王所作的器物，因此形成了迄今为止完整的吴越铭刻序列。书中部份资料为首次正式刊布，器形、铭文齐备，部份铭文有作者新作摹本，是迄今为止为完善的的吴越铭刻图录。《吳越題銘研究》的性质既是资料汇编，又是一部有深入研究的通
姚广孝是元末明初杰出的佛教人物，与姚广孝相关的历史遗迹，如姚广孝墓塔、天宁寺、汇通祠、永乐大钟、《永乐大典》等，多成为北京乃至全国的重要文物。姚广孝在政治、军事、文学、科技诸方面也有巨大成就，尤以参与策划“靖难之役”、辅佐燕王朱棣夺取帝位而名垂史册，后又拜为明两代帝王之师，成为中国历史上著名的“缁衣宰相”。由郑永华编著的《姚广孝史事研究》通过发掘与利用姚广孝的诗文、著述，以及碑刻、实录、文集等各种原始史料，对姚广孝的生平与交往进行了全面研究，就相关史事进行了详细考辨，更正了长期以来的讹误，为研究姚广孝这一重要的宗教与政治历史人物奠定了基础，具有较大的学术价值。又北京还长期流传许多与姚广孝相关的历史与人文传说，深入研究与北京历史有关的人物、弘扬北京历史文化，对建设“人文北京”
“Will shape our thinking about America and theMiddle East for years.”—Christopher Dickey, Newsweek This best-selling history isthe first fully comprehensive history of America’s involvement inthe Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. As NiallFerguson writes, “If you think America’s entanglement in the MiddleEast began with Roosevelt and Truman, Michael Oren’s deeplyresearched and brilliantly written history will be a revelation toyou, as it was to me. With its cast of fascinatingcharacters—earnest missionaries, maverick converts, wide-eyedtourists, and even a nineteenth-century George Bush— Power,Faith, and Fantasy is not only a terrific read, it is alsoproof that you don’t really understand an issue until you know itshistory.”
