《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。
《利玛窦》是一个人的传奇，更是一个时代的剪影。十六世纪地理大发现之后.中西文化交流进入了一个全新的时代。一五八三年.意大利传教士利玛窦运用“文化适应”的传教策略，成功地进入了中国内地，从而揭开了明末清初中西文化交流的高潮。《利玛窦》讲述的就是这位传奇人物为了实现他在晚明中国传教的梦想，不断认识、不断适应中国文化的故事。 面对当今中西文化交流的诸多困惑，把眼光放长一点，回到利玛窦时代，来重新认识与思考中西文化的异同.这可以让我们用一种历史的、客观的眼光来给传统文化定位，用开放的、发展的眼光来看待文化交流与冲突。
录:国民党抗日殉国将士名单，击毙日军将领名单，日军缴械情形一览表?等
录:国民党抗日殉国将士名单，击毙日军将领名单，日军缴械情形一览表?等
《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。
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
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.
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western halfdid. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as theByzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for anothereleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople,its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entireduration of the empire’s existence. Indeed, so did its neighbors,allies, and enemies: When the Turkish Sultan Mehmet II conqueredConstantinople in 1453, he took the title Caesar of Rome, placinghimself in a direct line that led back to Augustus. For far too many otherwise historically savvy people today, thestory of the Byzantine civilization is something of a void. Yet formore than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat ofChristian civilization. When Europe fell into the Dark Ages,Byzantium held fast against Muslim expansion, keeping Christianityalive. When literacy all but vanished in the West, Byzantium madeprimary education available to both sexes. Students debated themerits
If not for today's news stories about piracy on the high seas,it'd be easy to think of pirating as a romantic way of life longgone. But nothing is further from the truth. Pirates have existedsince the invention of commerce itself, and they reached the zenithof their power during the 1600s, when the Mediterranean was thecrossroads of the world and pirates were the scourge of Europe.Historian and author Adrian Tinniswood brings this exciting andsurprising chapter in history alive, revealing that the history ofpiracy is also the history that has shaped our modern world.
Writing with passion and intelligence, Said retraces thePalestinian Hejira, its disastrous flirtation with Saddam Hussein,and its ambitious peace accord with Israel. Said demolishes Westernstereotypes about the Muslim world and Islam's illusions aboutitself, leaving a masterly synthesis of scholarship and polemicwith the power to redefine the debate over the Middle East.
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
In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers theextraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers ofthe British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits totell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneaththe grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to lookat the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up init. Written and researched on four continents, Edge ofEmpire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, andidentified with one another in ways richer and more complex thanprevious accounts have led us to believe were possible. And as thisbook demonstrates, traces of that world remain tangible—andtopical—today. An innovative, persuasive, and provocative work ofhistory.
Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembledanthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of theAfrican American experience. From the Middle Passage to theMillion Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range ofvoices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique and compellinghistorical portrait: Benjamin Banneker on Thomas JeffersonOld Elizabeth on spreadingthe Word Frederick Douglass on life in the North W.E.B. Du Bois on theTalented Tenth Matthew Henson on reaching the North Pole Harriot Jacobs onrunning away James Cameron on escaping a mob lynichingAlvin Ailey on the worldof dance Langston Hughes on the Harlem Renaissance Curtis Morriw on theKorean War Max ROach on "jazz" as a four-letter wordLL Cool J on rap Mary Church Terrell on the Chicago World's FairRev. Bernice Kingon the future of Black America And many others
Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became thecreator of America’s anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for thebest and the brightest, its ranks included Cold War luminaries suchas Albert Wohlstetter, Bernard Brodie, and Herman Kahn, whoarguably saved us from nuclear annihilation and unquestionablycreated Eisenhower’s "military-industrial complex." In the Kennedyera, RAND analysts and their theories of rational warfare steeredour conduct in Vietnam. Those same theories drove our invasion ofIraq forty-five years later, championed by RAND affiliated actorssuch as Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Zalmay Khalilzad. ButRAND’s greatest contribution might be its least known: rationalchoice theory, a model explaining all human behavior throughself-interest. Through it RAND sparked the Reagan-ledtransformation of our social and economic system but also unleasheda resurgence of precisely the forces whose existence it denied --religion, patriotism, tribalism. With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella
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
America’s first frontier was not the West; it was thesea—and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wildernessthan Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of theSea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vastPacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of themost ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has everseen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838– 1842. On a scale thatdwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailingvessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire PacificOcean—and ended up naming the newly discovered continent ofAntarctica, collecting what would become the basis of theSmithsonian Institution, and much more.
