《格瓦拉日记》是格瓦拉以古巴现实，文化，特性和政治现实为基础而慢慢写就的手资料。虽然这些在时间写下的文字只是主观而不完整的记述，无法展现那段历史的全景，但切对诸多历史事件和历史人物的描写，却无比真实的反映出他在古巴人民争取自由的斗争中所肩负的责任和付出的努力。
《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最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，是迄今为止最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
胡可先主编的《夏承焘学案（精）/浙大先生书系》为“浙大先生”丛书之一种。? ?夏承焘（1900—1986），字瞿禅，浙江温州人，毕生致力于词学研究和教学，是现代词学的开拓者和奠基人。他的一系列经典著作无疑是词学史上的里程碑，20世纪的文化学术成果。胡乔木曾经多次赞誉夏承焘先生为“一代词宗”、“词学宗师”。?
master historian gives readers a fresh new picture of theCivil War as it really was. Buell examines three pairs ofcommanders from the North and South, who met each other in battle.Following each pair through the entire war, the author reveals thehuman dimensions of the drama and brings the battles to life. 38b w photos. From the Hardcover edition.
At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across thenight sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to theArctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning ofdoom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrimsprepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, theatmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. Men andwomen readied themselves for war, pestilence, or divineretribution. Against this background, and amid deep economicdepression, the Pilgrims conceived their enterprise of exile. Within a decade, despite crisis and catastrophe, they built athriving settlement at New Plymouth, based on beaver fur, corn, andcattle. In doing so, they laid the foundations for Massachusetts,New England, and a new nation. Using a wealth of new evidence fromlandscape, archaeology, and hundreds of overlooked or neglecteddocuments, Nick Bunker gives a vivid and strikingly originalaccount of the Mayflower project and the first decade of thePlymouth Colon
The world's best known reporters tell the story of what reallyhappened in Iraq in a gripping and gritty narrative history of thewar. Included are contributions from fifty international journalists,including Dexter Filkins, The New York Times correspondent who wonwidespread praise for his coverage of Fallujah; RajivChandrassekaran, author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City;Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post, who won the Pulitzer Prizefor his war coverage; Richard Engel of NBC; Anne Garrels of NPR,and other star reporters from both the print and broadcast world,not to mention their translators, photo journalists, and a militaryreporter. All come together to discuss the war from its beginning on, andthey hold back nothing on the violence they faced—Farnaz Fassihi ofthe Wall Street Journal talks about her near–kidnapping by "fivemen with AK–47s" chasing her car. ("I kept thinking, 'This isit.'") Nor do they hold back discussing how this impacted theirwork—British reporter Patrick C
As the Los Angeles Times said: "Drawing expertly on fivecenturies of the cultural history of Europe and the Americas,Fuentes seeks to capture the spirit of the new, vibrant, andenduring civilization [in the New World] that began in Spain."Fuentes's singular success in this remarkable endeavor has made thebook a classic in its field. (A Mariner Reissue).
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through theTheresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way toAuschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In TheGirls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmotherstoday in their seventies—tell us how they did it. The Jews deported to Theresienstadt from countries all overEurope were aware of the fate that awaited them, and they decidedthat it was the young people who had the best chance to survive.Keeping these adolescents alive, keeping them whole in body, mind,and spirit, became the priority. They were housed separately, indormitory-like barracks, where they had a greater chance of stayinghealthy and better access to food, and where counselors (young menand women who had been teachers and youth workers) created adisciplined environment despite the surrounding horrors. Thecounselors also made available to the young people the talents ofan amazing array of world-class artists, musicians, andplaywrights–Euro
This acclaimed book on the Wright Brothers takes the readerstraight to the heart of their remarkable achievement, focusing onthe technology and offering a clear, concise chronicle of preciselywhat they accomplished and how they did it. This book deals withthe process of the invention of the airplane and how the brothersidentified and resolved a range of technical puzzles that othershad attempted to solve for a century. Step by step, the book details the path of invention (includingthe important wind tunnel experiments of 1901) which culminated inthe momentous flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the first majormilestone in aviation history. Enhanced by original photos,designs, drawings, notebooks, letters and diaries of the WrightBrothers, Visions of a Flying Machine is a fascinating book thatwill be of interest to engineers, historians, enthusiasts, oranyone interested in the process of invention.
“This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from whichsurvival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.” With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copelandaddressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts onthe morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island ofSamar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanesenavy, a massive fleet that represented the last hope of astaggering empire. All that stood between it and DouglasMacArthur’s vulnerable invasion force were the Roberts and theother small ships of a tiny American flotilla poised to charge intohistory. In the tradition of the #1 New York Times bestseller Flags of OurFathers, James D. Hornfischer paints an unprecedented portrait ofthe Battle of Samar, a naval engagement unlike any other in U.S.history—and captures with unforgettable intensity the men, thestrategies, and the sacrifices that turned certain defeat into alegendary victory. From the Hardcover edition.
In See America First, Marguerite Shaffer chronicles the birthof modern American tourism between 1880 and 1940, linking tourismto the simultaneous growth of national transportation systems,print media, a national market, and a middle class with money andtime to spend on leisure. Focusing on the See America First sloganand idea employed at different times by railroads, guidebookpublishers, Western boosters, and Good Roads advocates, shedescribes both the modern marketing strategies used to promotetourism and the messages of patriotism and loyalty embedded in thetourist experience. She shows how tourists as consumersparticipated in the search for a national identity that couldassuage their anxieties about American society and culture. Generously illustrated with images from advertisements,guidebooks, and travelogues, See America First demonstrates thatthe promotion of tourist landscapes and the consumption of touristexperiences were central to the development of an Americanidentity.
A definitive history of the Kashmiri conflict by one ofPakistan's leading reporters For nearly sixty years, India and Pakistan have battled over theterritory of Kashmir. The two nuclear-armed states have foughtthree bloody wars in the region, but the countries have also foughtin the shadows. Having interviewed a thousand militants in war-torn Kashmir, ArifJamal presents a news-breaking account of Pakistan's secret battleswith India. From the early 1980s, when the Kashmiri conflict lurkedin the background of the CIA's proxy war in Afghanistan, to theeruption of insurgent violence in 1988, to recent Kashmiriconnections to terrorist financing and training, Jamal brings muchto light. Jamal reveals that the Pakistani military has trained nearly halfa million insurgents and, as a matter of defense policy, continuedthe conflict at great human cost. He also shows how CIA moneydestined for the Afghan mujahideen was funneled to Kashmirijihadis, leading to a twenty-year insurgency rarely discuss
Beginning beneath the walls of Troy and culminating in 1930sEurope, a magisterial exploration of the nature of heroism inWestern civilization. In this riveting and insightful cultural history, LucyHughes-Hallett brings to life eight exceptional men from historyand myth to explore our timeless need for heroes. As she re-createsthese extraordinary lives, Hughes-Hallett illuminates theattractions and dangers of hero worship. This is a fascinating bookabout dictatorship and democracy, seduction and mass hysteria,politics and culture, and the tensions between being good and beinggreat.
It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A derangedactor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre,escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he methis fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteriathat followed, eight others were arrested and tried; four of thosewere executed, four imprisoned. Therein lie all the classicelements of a great thriller. But the untold tale is even morefascinating. Now, in American Brutus, Michael W. Kauffman, one of the foremostLincoln assassination authorities, takes familiar history to adeeper level, offering an unprecedented, authoritative account ofthe Lincoln murder conspiracy. Working from a staggering array ofarchival sources and new research, Kauffman sheds new light on thebackground and motives of John Wilkes Booth, the mechanics of hisplot to topple the Union government, and the trials and fates ofthe conspirators. Piece by piece, Kauffman explains and corrects commonmisperceptions and analy
Assuming its rightful place of honor on the National Mallbetween the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the WorldWar II Memorial is an eloquent and moving tribute to “The GreatestGeneration.” Sixteen million Americans served in the armedforces—more than 400,000 gave their lives—and millions supportedthe war effort from home, all in the name of protecting that whichwe, as Americans, hold most dear: freedom. The World War II Memorial, published in conjunction with thededication of this long-overdue memorial, commemorates the everydayAmericans who in countless ways rose up to defeat one of history'sgravest threats to freedom. Veterans—including George H.W. Bush,Sen. Daniel Inouye, former senators Bob Dole and George McGovern,Yogi Berra, and many, many others—contribute their own personalstories while leading historians look at the military campaigns ofthe war. The memorial's architect and its sculptor provide insightsinto how it symbolizes the fortitude and perseverance of age
In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during,and after the Civil War, prize-winning historian Jacqueline Jonestransports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabledSouthern port city. Here is a subtle and rich social history thatweaves together stories of the everyday lives of blacks and whites,rich and poor, men and women from all walks of life confronting thetransformations that would alter their city forever. Deeplyresearched and vividly written, Saving Savannah is aninvaluable contribution to our understanding of the Civil Waryears.
