《唐风吹拂撒马尔罕:粟特艺术与中国、波斯、印度、拜占庭》是作者康马泰结合主持中亚布哈拉古城考古的挖掘实践及多年研究的心血之作。全书分为四卷——《粟特艺术与中国》《粟特艺术与波斯》《粟特艺术与印度》《粟特艺术与拜占庭》,关于撒马尔罕大使厅壁画上的唐代端午节,中国北朝墓葬中的粟特艺术,粟特信仰与佛教、印度教神祇的关系等,书中都有精彩论述。
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”。?
《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。
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At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America andan unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of anessentially unwarlike people, Fields of Battle spans more than twocenturies and the expanse of a continent to show how the immensespaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought on itssoil. of photos.
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.
Henry David Thoreau was just a few days short of histwenty-eighth birthday when he built a cabin on the shore of WaldenPond and began one of the most famous experiments in living inAmerican history. Apparently, he did not originally intend to writea book about his life at the pond, but nine years later, in Augustof 1854, Houghton Mifflin's predecessor, Ticknor and Fields,published Walden;or, a Life in the Woods. At the time the book waslargely ignored, and it took five years to sell out the firstprinting of two thousand copies. It was not until 1862, the year ofThoreau's death, that the book was brought back into print. Sincethen it has never been out of print. Published in hundreds ofeditions and translated into virtually every modern language,it hasbecome one of the most widely read and influential books everwritten, not only in this country but throughout the world. On the one hundred and fiftiethanniversary of the original publication of Walden, Houghton Mifflinis proud to present the most bea
A lively...generously illustrated (Washington Post Book World)survey of how, over the past four thousand years, religiousleaders, artists, writers, and ordinary people in the West havevisualized Hell-its location, architecture, purpose, andinhabitants. Illustrations; full-color inserts.
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
Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque ofAfrica encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: tojudge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreignreligions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders andmythical history) upon the progress of civilization. From V. S. Naipaul: “For my travel books I travel on a theme. Andthe theme of The Masque of Africa is African belief. I beginin Uganda, at the center of the continent, do Ghana and Nigeria,the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and end at the bottom of the continent,in South Africa. My theme is belief, not political or economicallife; and yet at the bottom of the continent the politicalrealities are so overwhelming that they have to be taken intoaccount. “Perhaps an unspoken aspect of my inquiry was the possibility ofthe subversion of old Africa by the ways of the outside world. Thetheme held until I got to the South, when the clash of the two waysof thinking and believing became far too one-sided. The skyscrapersof J
At the end of World War II, long before an Allied victory wasassured and before the scope of the atrocities orchestrated byHitler would come into focus or even assume the name of theHolocaust, Allied forces had begun to prepare for its aftermath.Taking cues from the end of the First World War, planners had begunthe futile task of preparing themselves for a civilian healthcrisis that, due in large part to advances in medical science,would never come. The problem that emerged was not widespreaddisease among Europe’s population, as anticipated, but massivedisplacement among those who had been uprooted from home andcountry during the war. Displaced Persons, as the refugees would come to be known, were notcomprised entirely of Jews. Millions of Latvians, Poles,Ukrainians, and Yugoslavs, in addition to several hundred thousandGermans, were situated in a limbo long overlooked by historians.While many were speedily repatriated, millions of refugees refusedto return to countries that were forever changed by the wa