《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。
This is the classic book on war as we know it. During his longlife, Basil H. Liddell Hart was considered one of the world'sforemost military thinkers--a man generally regarded as the"Clausewitz of the 20th century." Liddell Hart stressed movement, flexibilty, surprise. He saw thatin most military campaigns dislocation of the enemy's psychologicaland physical balance is prelude to victory. This dislocationresults from a strategic indirect approach. Reflect for a moment onthe results of direct confrontation (trench war in WW I) versusindirect dislocation (Blitzkreig in WW II). Liddell Hart is alsotonic for business and political planning: just change thevocabulary and his concepts fit. "The most important book by one of the outstanding militaryauthorities of our time." (Library Journal) --This text refers tothe Audio Cassette edition.
Whether photographing avant-garde theatre, gypsies on thesteppes of Eastern Europe, resistance to Soviet guns and tanksadvancing on Prague, Josef Koudelka has consistently producedimages that provoke a connection to the larger questions of humanexistence. This book brings together panoramic photographs from oneof his most recent projects, the landscape of the Piedmont regionof northern Italy. As Giuseppe Culicchia says in his introductionto this superb collection, Todays Piedmont is a region that is bothwonderful and wounded. And here they are: the wonders and thewounds. Every one of Josef Koudelkas shots stirs up an emotionHumans are largely absent from Koudelkas images, because the booksmain protagonist is the land itself. This beautifully bound volumeis sure to have a powerful resonance for all lovers ofphotography.
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
A remarkable feat--clear, compelling and accessible--.Critical background for any appreciation of the Jewishstate.-- The New York Times Book Review With his characteristic grace and lucidity, Howard M. Sachar,renowned author of thirteen earlier books on Middle Eastern andJewish history, brings to life the complex and dramatic story ofthe friendships and fallings-out between Israel and the variousEuropean powers over the last half-century. Dr. Sachar chronicles the always uneasy relationship between Israeland Great Britain; its early love-affair and nasty break-up withFrance; the shifting Soviet policies toward Israel; and theunlikely emergence of Germany as the new nation's chief Europeanbenefactor. A master of historical narrative, Sachar once againenlightens us with fine scholarship, insightful analysis, and anunerring knowledge of human--and national--motivations.
In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renownedscholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent ofwritten records–the overwhelming majority of our time here onearth–and gives an incisive, concise, and lively survey of thepast, and of how scholars and scientists labor to bring it tolight. Renfrew begins by looking at prehistory as a discipline,detailing how breakthroughs such as radiocarbon dating and DNAanalysis have helped us to define humankind’s past–how things havechanged–much more clearly than was possible just a half centuryago. As for why things have changed, Renfrew pinpoints some of theissues and challenges, past and present, that confront the study ofprehistory and its investigators. Renfrew then offers a summary ofhuman prehistory from early hominids to the rise of literatecivilization that is refreshingly free of conventional wisdom andgrand “unified” theories. In this invaluable account, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulouslyresearched and
“Much more than a military history, this book is a detailedde*ion of daily life in wartime China.”— Air SpaceMagazine "A fine addition to our knowledge ofWorld War II, especially war in the Far East. . . Relatively fewFlying Tigers have written and published their view of 'how itreally was.' For readers interested in the China-Burma-Indiatheater in World War II or for those interested in exploring theflexibility of airpower, this book is a must.”— Air SpacePower Journal
A companion book to The History Channel specialseries of ten one-hour documentaries 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America pinpoints pivotaldays that transformed our nation. For the series and the book, TheHistory Channel challenged a panel of leading historians, includingauthor Steven M. Gillon, to come up with some less well-known buthistorically significant events that triggered change in America.Together, the days they chose tell a story about the greatdemocratic ideals upon which our country was built. You won’t find July 4, 1776, for instance, or the attack on FortSumter that ignited the Civil War, or the day Neil Armstrong setfoot on the moon. But January 25, 1787, is here. On that day, theragtag men of Shays’ Rebellion attacked the federal arsenal inSpringfield, Massachusetts, and set the new nation on the path to astrong central government. January 24, 1848, is also on the list.That’s when a carpenter named John Marshall spotted a fewglittering flakes of gold in a California riverbed.
Includes a complete copy of the Constitution.Fifty-five menmet in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create acountry and change a world. Here is a remarkable rendering of thatfateful time, told with humanity and humor. "The best popularhistory of the Constitutional Convention available."--LibraryJournal From the Paperback edition.
The winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in History isreinterpreted by the foremost colonial historian of Americanhistory, using the perspective of migration as an organizingprinciple. 32 photos, 19 maps.
Experimentation with armored cars by the American militarygoes back to 1898. Today, the armored car is once again back infavor as the Marine Corps and U.S. Army look for economicalsolutions for the third-world battlefields of today andtomorrow.
Two of the most influential figures in American history. Twoopposing political philosophies. Two radically different visionsfor America. Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were without question twoof the most important Founding Fathers. They were also the fiercestof rivals. Of these two political titans, it is Jefferson—–therevered author of the Declaration of Independence and our thirdpresident—–who is better remembered today. But in fact it isHamilton’s political legacy that has triumphed—–a legacy that hassubverted the Constitution and transformed the federal governmentinto the very leviathan state that our forefathers fought againstin the American Revolution. How did we go from the Jeffersonian ideal of limited governmentto the bloated imperialist system of Hamilton’s design? Acclaimedeconomic historian Thomas J. DiLorenzo provides the troublinganswer in Hamilton’s Curse. DiLorenzo reveals how Hamilton, first as a delegate to theConstitutional Convention and
《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
National Bestseller New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award For six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end allwars,” the Big Three—President Woodrow Wilson, British primeminister David Lloyd George, and French premier GeorgesClemenceau—met in Paris to shape a lasting peace. In this landmarkwork of narrative history, Margaret MacMillan gives a dramatic andintimate view of those fateful days, which saw new politicalentities—Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Palestine, among them—born out ofthe ruins of bankrupt empires, and the borders of the modern worldredrawn.
From award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards, anauthoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger ofthe terrible battle yet to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of allstripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the morecalculating were Southern slave owners. By making California aslave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gainadditional influence in Congress and expand Southern economicclout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would runthrough the South. Yet, despite their machinations, Californiaentered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners wouldagitate for even more slave territory, leading to theKansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.
“Admirers of FDR credit his New Deal with restoring theAmerican economy after the disastrous contraction of 1929—33. Truthto tell–as Powell demonstrates without a shadow of a doubt–the NewDeal hampered recovery from the contraction, prolonged and added tounemployment, and set the stage for ever more intrusive and costlygovernment. Powell’s analysis is thoroughly documented, relying onan impressive variety of popular and academic literature bothcontemporary and historical.” – Milton Friedman , Nobel Laureate, Hoover Institution “There is a critical and often forgotten difference betweendisaster and tragedy. Disasters happen to us all, no matter what wedo. Tragedies are brought upon ourselves by hubris. The Depressionof the 1930s would have been a brief disaster if it hadn’t been forthe national tragedy of the New Deal. Jim Powell has proventhis.” – P.J. O’Rourke , author of Parliament of Whores and Eat theRich “The material laid out in this book desperat
In this groundbreaking work, leading historian FelipeFernández-Armesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole,showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, andSouth America in isolation without turning to the intertwiningforces that shape the region. With imagination, thematic breadth,and his trademark wit, Fernández-Armesto covers a range ofcultural, political, and social subjects, taking us from the dawnof human migration to North America to the Colonial andIndependence periods to the “American Century” and beyond.Fernández-Armesto does nothing less than revise the conventionalwisdom about cross-cultural exchange, conflict, and interaction,making and supporting some brilliantly provocative conclusionsabout the Americas’ past and where we are headed.
"Brilliant . . . Indispensable." LosAngeles Times Here is the story of the rise and fall of the notorious Bonannocrime family of New York as only best-selling author Gay Talesecould tell it.
On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent anddeserted Paris. Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeatalong with foreign occupation. The only consolation was that, whilethe swastika now flew over Paris, the City of Light was undamaged.Soon, a peculiar kind of normality returned as theaters, operahouses, movie theaters and nightclubs reopened for business. Thissuited both conquerors and vanquished: the Germans wanted Parisiansto be distracted, while the French could show that, culturally atleast, they had not been defeated. Over the next four years, theartistic life of Paris flourished with as much verve as inpeacetime. Only a handful of writers and intellectuals asked ifthis was an appropriate response to the horrors of a worldwar. Alan Riding introduces us to a panoply of writers, painters,composers, actors and dancers who kept working throughout theoccupation. Maurice Chevalier and ?dith Piaf sang before French andGerman audiences. Pablo Picasso, whose art was officially banned,continue
Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "A superb panorama of life inAmerica from the first settlements on through the white hot days ofthe Revolution." - Bruce Lancaster, Saturday Review
The French Revolution embodied, in the eyes of subsequentgenerations, the emergence of the modern political world. It madepossible a new understanding of class politics, secular ideologyand revolutionary transformation which inspired, argues IainHampsher-Monk, the whole world-wide communist experiment of thetwentieth century. In this authoritative anthology of key politicaltexts exploring the impact of this period on the Britishexperience, Hampsher-Monk examines the variety, influence andprofundity of major thinkers such as Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paineand Godwin, along with the impact of other less celebratedcontemporary writers.
For two weeks in 1861, Washington, D.C., was locked in a stateof panic. Would the newly formed Confederate States of Americalaunch its first attack on the Union by capturing the nationscapital? Would Lincolns Union fall before it had a chance to fight?Wedged between Virginia and Marylandtwo states bordering onsecessionWashington was isolated; its communications lines werecut, its rail lines blocked. Newly recruited volunteers were toofew and were unable to enter the city. A recently inauguratedLincoln struggled to form a plandefense or attack? In this finalchapter of his trilogy on the Civil War, David Detzer pulls thedrama from this pivotal moment in American history straight fromthe pages of diaries, letters, and newspapers. With an eye fordetail and an ear for the voices of average citizens, hebeautifully captures the tense, miasmic atmosphere of these firstchaotic days of war.
