《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。

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The Middle East is the birthplace of ancient civilizations,but most of the modern states that occupy its territory today areof recent origin, as are many key concepts of communal andindividual identity and loyalty that the peoples of the region nowconfront. In The Multiple Identities of the Middle East, eminentMiddle East historian Bernard Lewis elucidates the critical role ofidentity in the domestic, regional, and international tensions andconflicts of the Middle East today. Examining religion, race and language, country, nation, andstate, Lewis traces the rapid evolution of the identities of theMiddle Eastern peoples, from the collapse of the centuries-oldOttoman Empire in 1918 to today's clash of old and new allegiances.He shows how, during the twentieth century, imported Western ideassuch as liberalism, fascism, socialism, patriotism, and nationalismhave transformed Middle Easterners' ancient notions of community,their self-perceptions, and their aspirations.＝ To this fascinating hist

A masterly and beautifully written account of theimpact of Alexander von Humboldt on nineteenth-century Americanhistory and culture The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859)achieved unparalleled fame in his own time. Today, however, he andhis enormous legacy to American thought are virtually unknown. In The Humboldt Current , Aaron Sachs traces Humboldt’spervasive influence on American history through examining the workof four explorers—J. N. Reynolds, Clarence King, George Wallace,and John Muir—who embraced Humboldt’s idea of a "chain ofconnection" uniting all peoples and all environments. A skillfulblend of narrative and interpretation that also discussesHumboldt’s influence on Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Melville, andPoe, The Humboldt Current offers a colorful, passionate, andsuperbly written reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Americanhistory.

In a remarkably vibrant narrative, Michael Stürmer blends highpolitics, social history, portraiture, and an unparalleled commandof military and economic developments to tell the story ofGermany’s breakneck rise from new nation to Continental superpower.It begins with the German military’s greatest triumph, theFranco-Prussian War, and then tracks the forces of unification,industrialization, colonization, and militarization as theycombined to propel Germany to become the force that fatallydestabilized Europe’s balance of power. Without The GermanEmpire ’s masterly rendering of this story, a full understandingof the roots of World War I and World War II is impossible.

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S.Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left onehundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concisemasterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of asociety traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured ina mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news reports, political memoirs, and his ownencounters with ordinary Indians–from a supercilious prince to anengineer constructing housing for Bombay’s homeless–Naipaulcaptures a vast, mysterious, and agonized continent inaccessible toforeigners and barely visible to its own people. He sees both theburgeoning space program and the 5,000 volunteers chanting mantrasto purify a defiled temple; the feudal village autocrat and theNaxalite revolutionaries who combined Maoist rhetoric with ritualmurder. Relentless in its vision, thrilling in the keenness of itsprose, India: A Wounded Civilization is a work of astonishinginsight an

The epic story of the collision between one of nature’ssmallest organisms and history’s mightiest empire During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinianreigned over a territory that stretched from Italy to North Africa.It was the zenith of his achievements and the last of them. In 542AD, the bubonic plague struck. In weeks, the glorious classicalworld of Justinian had been plunged into the medieval and modernEurope was born. At its height, five thousand people died every day inConstantinople. Cities were completely depopulated. It was thefirst pandemic the world had ever known and it left its indeliblemark: when the plague finally ended, more than 25 million peoplewere dead. Weaving together history, microbiology, ecology,jurisprudence, theology, and epidemiology, Justinian’s Flea is aunique and sweeping account of the little known event that changedthe course of a continent.

“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 this introduction to his large-scale work The Peopling ofBritish North America, Bernard Bailyn identifies central themes ina formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer ofpeople from the Old World to the North American continent thatformed the basis of American society. Voyagers to the West, whichcovers the British migration in the years just before the AmericanRevolution and is the first major volume in the Peopling project,is also available from Vintage Books.

Undeniably one of Rome's most important historians, Tacituswas also one of its most gifted. The Agricola is both aportrait of Julius Agricola-the most famous governor of RomanBritain and Tacitus's respected father-in-law-and the first knowndetailed portrayal of the British Isles. In the Germania ,Tacitus focuses on the warlike German tribes beyond the Rhine,often comparing the behavior of "barbarian" peoples favorably withthe decadence and corruption of Imperial Rome.

The author of Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents (100,000 inprint) and Secret Lives of the First Ladies (30,000 in print) isback with another bizarre look at history's most celebratedpersonalities. With Secret Lives of the Civil War, Cormac O'Brienunearths a host of strange, little-known facts about AbrahamLincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Thomas"Stonewall" Jackson, and Harriet Tubman. He also introduceslesser-known people who changed the fate of our country peoplelike: Sarah Edmonds, who disguised herself as a man so she could fightin the Battle of Bull Run (the Civil War had a surprising number ofwomen soldiers). William Clarke Quantrill, a sociopath who fought in both armies,mostly for the pleasure of shedding blood. And of course, Officer Ambrose Burnside, whose unique "sideburns"would later influence generations of Elvis Presley fans.

Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the RomanEmpire from the second century a.d. to its collapse in the west inthe fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, iswidely considered the greatest work of history ever written. Thisabridgment retains the full scope of the original, but in a compassequivalent to a long novel. Casual readers now have access to thefull sweep of Gibbon’s narrative, while instructors and studentshave a volume that can be read in a single term. This uniqueedition emphasizes elements ignored in all other abridgments—inparticular the role of religion in the empire and the rise ofIslam.

A renowned historian contends "that the Americanwarrior, not technology, wins wars." (Patrick K. O'Donnell, authorof Give Me Tomorrow ) John C. McManus coverssix decades of warfare in which the courage of American troopsproved the crucial difference between victory and defeat. Based onyears of archival research and personal interviews with veterans,Grunts demonstrates the vital, and too often forgotten, importanceof the human element in protecting the American nation, andadvances a passionate plea for fundamental change in ourunderstanding of war.

“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it haseverything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is animpressively researched and important story.” —David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last Summer Vienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched accountof the most audacious and extravagant peace conference in modernEuropean history. With the feared Napoleon Bonaparte presumablydefeated and exiled to the small island of Elba, heads of some 216states gathered in Vienna to begin piecing together the ruins ofhis toppled empire. Major questions loomed: What would be done withFrance? How were the newly liberated territories to be divided?What type of restitution would be offered to families of thedeceased? But this unprecedented gathering of kings, dignitaries,and diplomatic leaders unfurled a seemingly endless stream ofpersonal vendettas, long-simmering feuds, and romanticentanglements that threatened to undermine the crucial work athand, even as their hard-fought policy dec

"The Conspiracy of Catiline" (his first published work)contains the history of the memorable year 63. Sallust adopts theusually accepted view of Catiline, and describes him as thedeliberate foe of law, order and morality, and does not give acomprehensive explanation of his views and intentions. Catiline hadsupported the party of Sulla, to which Sallust was opposed.Sallust's "Jugurthine War" is a valuable and interesting monograph.We may assume that Sallust collected materials and put togethernotes for it during his governorship of Numidia. Here, too, hedwells upon the feebleness of the senate and aristocracy.

When prize-winning warcorrespondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia andthe Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains,he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morningby the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-linedispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his ownheart. Propelled by his boy... (展开全部) When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitzleaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for apeaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put warzones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musketfire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this timefrom a war close to home, and to his own heart. Propelled by hisboyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search forplaces and people still held in thrall by America's greatestconflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of theunvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause ar