历史
War
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Margaret MacMillan publishing house: Random House 2020 - 10
The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war—organized violence—comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity’s history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity. Margaret MacMillan looks at the ways in which war has influenced human society and how, in turn, changes in political organization, technology, or ideologies have affected how and why we fight. War: How Conflict Shaped Us explores such much-debated and controversial questions as: When did war first start? Does human nature doom us to fight one another? Why has war been described as the most organized of all human activities? Why are warriors almost always men? Is war ever within our control? Drawing on lessons from wars throughout the past, from classical history to the present day, MacMillan reveals the many faces of war—the way it has determined our past, our future, our views of the world, and our very conception of ourselves.
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Dec. 27, 2020
比较喜欢civilians和女性的部分,其他很多地方就老生常谈了。
历史 audiobook
Héros et merveilles du Moyen Age
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Jacques Le Goff publishing house: Points 2009 - 1
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Nov. 26, 2020
虽然每篇都写得像个大纲,但是毕竟有不少我不知道的东西……也有我知道的东西!《十字军城堡》真的不是TE Lawrence的博士论文啊,哈哈哈。
历史 艺术 中世纪
Soviet Space Dogs
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Turkina, Olesya / Murray, Damon … publishing house: FUEL Publishing 2014 - 9
This book is dedicated to the Soviet Space Dogs, who played a crucial part in the Soviet Space programme. These homeless dogs, plucked from the streets of Moscow, were selected because they fitted the programmes criteria: weighing no more than 7kg, measuring no more than 35cm in length, robust, photogenic and with a calm temperament. These characteristics enabled the dogs to withstand the extensive training that was needed to prepare them for suborbital, then for orbital space fights. On 3 November 1957, the dog Laika was the first Earth-born creature to enter space, making her instantly famous around the world. She did not return. Her death, a few hours after launching, transformed her into a legendary symbol of sacrifice. Two further strays, Belka and Strelka, were the first beings to make it back from space, and were swiftly immortalized in childrens books and cartoons. Images of the Space Dogs proliferated, reproduced on everyday goods across the Soviet Union: cigarette packets, tins of sweets, badges, stamps and postcards all bore their likeness. This book uses these unique items to illustrate the story (in fact and fiction) of how they became fairy-tale idols. Monuments now commemorate their pioneering role in conquering the final frontier: their heroism will never be forgotten.
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Jan. 29, 2020
文字部分略失望,三星。本以为会有更多太空犬和人类的故事(毕竟发射过57只汪,牺牲20),结果还是Laika、Belka和Strelka为主,而且内容比较dry,集中在她们(太空犬都是母的)经历的历史事件、公共影响和批判当时的政宣上,看完后并没有感受到每只都有血有肉、活灵活现。Fedorov的哲学,苏联大力发展科学否认宗教和后来的火星红色乌托邦的历史往事有趣。图片超多加一星,热爱狗狗相关的vintage物件的读者一定会很满足。“The universe is full of the life of perfect creatures"---汪星人就是其中之一。❤️
历史 动物
骄傲之塔
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 Douban Goodreads
★ 8.7 9 ratings
[美国] 巴巴拉·W·塔奇曼 translator: 陈丹丹 publishing house: 三辉图书/中信出版社 2016 - 4
“一战”前世界众生的荣辱与挣扎,普利策奖两度获奖历史作家塔奇曼自己最钟爱的作品。 --------------------------- 【内容简介】 塔奇曼在这部作品中将视线集中于“一战”爆发前25年的西方社会,以艺术家般的手法再现了彼时的思潮与理想,遽变与纷争:“八月炮火”轰响之前,英国的贵族世界开始倾塌,权力转向新的阶层,热血的无政府主义者畅想着一个和谐世界,帝国主义情绪爬上新大陆,美国海军悄然崛起,德雷福斯事件掀起一场法国人内部的激烈对峙,施特劳斯的音乐与尼采的思想影响着德国……在繁荣的表象之下,旧世界已是山雨欲来风满楼。 --------------------------- 【编辑推荐】 ◎普利策奖两度获奖历史作家塔奇曼笔下的第一次世界大战前的欧美世界,不同于其他分析“一战”成因的著作,塔奇曼在这本书中仅力求将战前世界面貌栩栩如生地重现在其笔下,究竟世界大战的原因如何,读者们可以在文字中细细品味和琢磨。 ◎两度普利策奖获奖作家、备受费正清、约翰·肯尼迪、威廉·夏伊勒推崇的历史学家巴巴拉·W·塔奇曼最钟爱的作品; ◎像艺术家一样遴选出关键的材料,以剔透、慧黠、诙谐的文字,将战前世界面貌栩栩如生地重现在其笔下; ◎塔奇曼作品系列包括:《史迪威与美国在中国的经验,1911-1945》《骄傲之塔:战前世界的肖像,1890-1914》《历史的技艺:塔奇曼论历史》《第一声礼炮:另一种视角下的美国革命》《远方之镜:动荡不安的14世纪》《愚政进行曲:从木马屠城到越南战争》。 --------------------------- 【名人&媒体推荐】 塔奇曼女士以大师之笔为我们挥毫画下一幅场景:它熠熠生辉又光彩夺目,穷奢极侈又离谱至极。 ——《先驱报》 这是极其罕见的对无懈可击的学术研究和精致文字的结合……读《骄傲之塔》,你不可能不感觉愉悦和钦佩。 ——《纽约时报》 巴巴拉•W•塔奇曼的历史是自立的,根本用不着理论支持。它就是让读者着迷了,它让他们得以如此接近过去的历史,这接近的程度是前所未有的。 ——费正清
Return of a King
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William Dalrymple publishing house: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2013 - 2
In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat and utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen. Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War, told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides and using for the first time contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict. Prize-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful and important parable of colonial ambition and cultural collision, folly and hubris, for our times.
A History of the Arab Peoples
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Albert Hourani publishing house: Faber & Faber 2013 - 1
In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a unique insight into a perpetually troubled region. This updated edition by Malise Ruthven adds a substantial new chapter which includes recent events such as 9/11, the US invasion of Iraq and its bloody aftermath, the fall of the Mubarak and Ben Ali regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and the incipient civil war in Syria, bringing Hourani's magisterial History up to date. Ruthven suggests that while Hourani can hardly have been expected to predict in detail the massive upheavals that have shaken the Arab world recently he would not have been entirely surprised, given the persistence of the kin-patronage networks he describes in his book and the challenges now posed to them by a new media-aware generation of dissatisfied youth. In a new biographical preface, Malise Ruthven shows how Hourani's perspectives on Arab history were shaped by his unique background as an English-born Arab Christian with roots in the Levant.
Arabs
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Tim Mackintosh-Smith publishing house: Yale University Press 2019 - 3
This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia. Mackintosh-Smith reveals how linguistic developments—from pre-Islamic poetry to the growth of script, Muhammad’s use of writing, and the later problems of printing Arabic—have helped and hindered the progress of Arab history, and investigates how, even in today’s politically fractured post–Arab Spring environment, Arabic itself is still a source of unity and disunity.
敌人与邻居
Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel,1917-2017 Douban Goodreads
★ 7.8 5 ratings
[英]伊恩·布莱克 translator: 王利莘 publishing house: 中信出版集团 2019 - 9
巴勒斯坦的这片土地,是犹太人经卷上所指的应许之地,也是许多阿拉伯人世世代代的居所。1917年,奥斯曼帝国落败,结束在这里4个世纪的统治;英国外交大臣发表《贝尔福宣言》,支持犹太人在这片土地上建立民族家园。一个世纪的撕扯与动荡就此开启。 分歧从一开始就难以调和。从19世纪末首批犹太定居点的建立、20世纪30年代的阿拉伯起义,到以色列在1948年的建国、1967年的六日战争,再到1993年的《奥斯陆协议》,以及2002年以来修建的隔离墙……对于同样的事件,双方说法截然不同。犹太复国主义者眼中的公正和胜利,对巴勒斯坦人来说则是不公、失败、流亡和羞辱。 对于这片土地上两个民族百年难解的纷争,记者兼历史学家伊恩·布莱克意识到,只能通过关注他们如何看待自己、历史以及彼此来理解。于是,他借助文献资料、解密档案、口述历史,还有他自己的现场报道,寻求真相和对话。他留意历史的变迁、国家间的斡旋和博弈,因为那是冲突的肇因和驱动力;他更在意被卷入这百年动荡的普通人的生活,因为冲突的撕裂,他们在日常感受得至为真切。 一百年来,缓和的机会一再错失,促使这两个民族和平、自由、公平地作为邻居而不是敌人相处的协议从未达成。如今,没有任何迹象表明这场冲突即将落幕,而理解,是面向未来的开始。 --------------------- 1. 一片土地上两个民族的百年纷争,讲清最棘手地区冲突的来龙去脉 巴以冲突可以说是最棘手的地区纷争,牵动全球,却似乎始终无解。1917年英国政府《贝尔福宣言》发表已过去一个世纪,没有任何迹象表明这场冲突即将落幕,所以理解它比以往更加重要。 《敌人与邻居》从奥斯曼帝国末期,首批犹太复国主义者来到巴勒斯坦地区说起,一直讲到奥巴马卸任美国总统的2017年,从头梳理阿拉伯人和犹太人在这片土地的百年纠缠,透视地缘、国家格局的变化。 2. 以资深记者的切身观察、学者的挖掘反思,公正呈现历史全貌 作者伊恩·布莱克是《卫报》资深记者,伦敦政治经济学院政治学博士、资深研究员。他精通阿拉伯语、希伯来语,置身中东冲突现场36年,长期往来于中东北非地区。在新作《敌人与邻居》里,他依托解密档案、文献资料、口述历史、现场报道,既用政治和历史学者的视野,勾勒大国博弈下的上层决策过程,又以现场报道的视角,还描绘普通阿拉伯人、犹太人在冲突撕扯下的想法和生活。 3. 平衡呈现冲突双方观点,获得巴勒斯坦和以色列学者的共同认可 《贝尔福宣言》、《皮尔报告》、以色列建国、六天战争、联合国决议……百年历史上的所有大事,在冲突双方那里都有完全不同的解释。一方口中的英雄是另一方眼里的罪人;一方眼中的公正和胜利,对另一方来说则意味着不公、失败、流亡和羞辱。 巴以双方各说各话,对话难以展开。《敌人与邻居》平衡呈现双方的观点,讲述客观事实,在截然不同的说法之间找到了中间立场,获得巴勒斯坦和以色列学者的认可,让人看到,双方或许有希望基于共同认可历史展开对话。 4. 研究巴以冲突的里程碑式作品,赞誉奖项众多 因为分歧难以弥合,所以书写巴勒斯坦问题历史的作品往往侧重于其中一方的视角。《敌人与邻居》以其公正平衡获得巴以双方学者的认可,可以说是里程碑式的著作,也因此获得众多奖项赞誉。在《贝尔福宣言》发表一百周年的2017年,《金融时报》《经济学人》《星期日泰晤士报》《卫报》等众多主流媒体都将《敌人与邻居》列为年度好书。它的细腻、平衡、客观获得前英国驻联合国大使格林斯托克、著有《奥斯曼帝国的衰亡》的学者尤金·罗根、作家塞巴斯蒂安·福克斯等等的一致认可。
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families Douban Goodreads Skybridge
Philip Gourevitch publishing house: Picador 1999 - 9 other title: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Philip Gourevitch his title. With keen dramatic intensity, Gourevitch frames the genesis and horror of Rwanda's "genocidal logic" in the anguish of its aftermath: the mass displacements, the temptations of revenge and the quest for justice, the impossibly crowded prisons and refugee camps. Through intimate portraits of Rwandans in all walks of life, he focuses on the psychological and political challenges of survival and on how the new leaders of postcolonial Africa went to war in the Congo when resurgent genocidal forces threatened to overrun central Africa. Can a country composed largely of perpetrators and victims create a cohesive national society? This moving contribution to the literature of witness tells us much about the struggle everywhere to forge sane, habitable political orders, and about the stubbornness of the human spirit in a world of extremity. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.
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Aug. 25, 2019
即使有共同的语言和文化,胁迫和煽动仍让无数普通民众如行尸般对图西亲友举起砍刀,学校和教堂沦为屠宰场。遗憾的是作者没法提供更多凶手的心理分析。胡图力量逃离卢旺达后留下被严重撕裂的社会。幸存者尚未走出心理阴影,国际社会却以人道主义之名救助鱼龙混杂的胡图流亡者(而在80万图西族被杀时反应冷淡),难民营变成极端分子的肉盾,种族清洗引发第一次刚果战争。从殖民时期的种族主义荼毒到国际社会承认对大屠杀的无知和错误,卢旺达的独立之路走得过于血腥,虽然书以屠杀者的失败告终,但世界因此学到教训了吗“We live in the flicker-may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!But darkness was here yesterday."
历史 非洲
To Hell and Back
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Ian Kershaw publishing house: Penguin 2016 - 6
In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilization that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of the world had collapsed into a chaotic savagery beyond any comparison. In 1939 Europeans would initiate a second conflict that managed to be even worse - a war in which the killing of civilians was central and which culminated in the Holocaust. To Hell and Back tells this story with humanity, flair and originality. Kershaw gives a compelling narrative of events, but he also wrestles with the most difficult issues that the events raise - with what it meant for the Europeans who initiated and lived through such fearful times - and what this means for us.
自由与毁灭
Liberty or Death Douban Goodreads
★ 8.3 9 ratings
彼得·麦克菲 translator: 杨磊 publishing house: 中信出版集团·新思文化 2019 - 4
法国大革命从未远去。 人类世界在“世界近代”的几个世纪经历了猛烈而持续的变迁,如果把这段历史视作一次火山爆发,那么法国大革命就是那火山口,是波及全世界的种种解放与毁灭之力的原爆点。 《自由与毁灭》用生动的历史细节,再现了法国大革命全历程的动荡起落。1789年,法国大革命在多重政治-社会危机中爆发,也释放了积蓄多年的底层力量与不满。旧制度、旧文化、封建制度,在一阵如同旋风闪电一般的改革中土崩瓦解。法国大革命没有一贯的领导者,三级会议、国民议会、国民公会、处决路易十六、雅各宾专政、督政府……每个新阶段都是一次攸关生死的权力洗牌,是在历史中有无穷回响的政治原则之争。 《自由与毁灭》也用新的历史角度和清晰度呈现这场革命,从浩如烟海的尘封档案中打捞出鲜活的历史记忆,把个人故事与政治大势编织在一起。所谓“革命”,法国的城市、农村、战场、殖民地都在发生什么?不同阶层的法国人又如何适应变革,顺应变革?10年间,革命画家雅克-路易•大卫为许许多多革命者画了肖像。随着时间的推移,这些革命者有的成了“烈士”,有的成为“叛徒”被推上断头台,也有的发动政变,成了新贵。住在巴黎的巧克力女匠人波利娜•莱昂,在革命爆发时只有21岁,她参加过喜气洋洋的革命庆典,领导过反对国王和支持女权的示威,而在平常日子里她天天排队领取少得可怜的配给面包。黑白混血儿亚历山大•仲马原本注定一生为奴,大革命敞开的机会之门让他能够成为军官,在革命军队里建功立业。……变革降临在所有人身上。 我们至今依然生活在法国大革命的遗产之中。它塑造了人类对于好政府、好法律、人的权利乃至人之存在的认识。两百余年来,不断有人宣布法国大革命“过去了”,“完结了”;但又不断有人民要再次探寻法国大革命理念的实现之途,或许也再次经历血与火的考验。《自由与毁灭》在沿袭前人的史学传统和问题意识的同时,也是在新世纪的变革浪潮、全球化、生态意识等背景下写就。这本书“将成为今后一段时间中关于法国大革命的标准讲述”。
奥斯曼帝国
Osman’s Dream Douban
★ 7.8 6 ratings
[英] 卡罗琳·芬克尔 translator: 邓伯宸 / 徐大成 … publishing house: 民主与建设出版社 2019 - 7
以土耳其语材料为基础的奥斯曼通史 畅销伊斯坦布尔各景点 诺贝尔文学奖得主帕慕克倾情推荐 ◎ 编辑推荐 ☆英语世界第一部以内部视角描写奥斯曼帝国崛起至衰落历程的著作,完全摆脱西方中心视角和东方主义 ☆伊斯坦布尔旅游景点最畅销的英语奥斯曼通史著作 ◎ 内容简介 在16世纪奥斯曼帝国鼎盛时期,它曾是一个横跨欧亚非三大洲的帝国。它的一举一动,对欧亚大陆都有着深远的影响。但它却渐渐衰落,沦为备受欧洲压迫、剥削的“欧洲病夫”,并最终在第一次世界大战后崩溃。 本书主要讲述了奥斯曼土耳其帝国自13世纪末建国起,至1927年土耳其之父穆斯塔法·凯末尔发表伟大演说之间的悠久历史,用16个章节叙述了奥斯曼帝国历史发展的脉络,有早期奥斯曼苏丹为领土扩张、国家强盛所做的各种努力,奥斯曼人在面对西方国家的挑战时的各种反应,也有奥斯曼末期各种势力挽救国家于颓败的努力,并在其中展现了奥斯曼的成就与文明特色。 本书笔法生动,内容翔实,并是英语世界第一本大量运用奥斯曼土耳其语原始材料写成的奥斯曼通史。不同于过去西方学者的著作,它试图以一种更加中立的角度叙述这段长达6个世纪的历史,在土耳其颇受欢迎,得到了诺贝尔文学奖得主奥尔罕·帕慕克的大力推荐。 ◎ 名人推荐 卡罗琳·芬克尔游刃有余地展示了奥斯曼帝国充满戏剧性的历史。 ——奥尔罕·帕慕克,诺贝尔文学奖得主 如今,对伊斯兰教的了解已不再是文雅博学的标志,而成了一种必需,卡罗琳·芬克尔出色的研究应该列入人们的必读书目。 ——威廉·达尔林普尔,沃尔夫森历史奖得主 精彩力作……有史以来最权威的奥斯曼帝国叙事史。 ——《文学评论》 芬克尔的创新之处在于,她展示了奥斯曼人是如何看待自己与他们的帝国的……这是一个全新的视角。 ——《出版人周刊》 芬克尔为大家书写了一部可读性极强的奥斯曼帝国六百年的历史。本书研究深入,文辞优美……对于希望了解这个帝国的人来说,本书必不可少。 ——希斯·W. 洛瑞,普林斯顿大学奥斯曼与现代土耳其研究阿塔图克讲席教授
破碎大地
Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart Douban
★ 8.4 5 ratings
[美] 斯科特·安德森 translator: 陆大鹏 / 刘晓晖 publishing house: 社会科学文献出版社 2019 - 6
★斯科特•安德森继《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》后又一非虚构力作 ★生动呈现从21世纪初期到“阿拉伯之春”以来的中东大地的动荡与民众的苦难 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【内容简介】 2011年,所谓“阿拉伯之春”的浪潮席卷中东和北非。西方国家起初赞誉它是民主的胜利,几乎没人预料到它会演化为残酷的内战、“伊斯兰国”的恐怖暴行以及全球难民危机。 在这部作品中,造成中东和北非大幅震荡的复杂原因得以生动呈现。这次调查,通过展现六个生活于此的普通人——一个参与抗议活动家庭的埃及老母亲,一名为自己应效忠于谁而苦恼的利比亚空军学员,一位出身著名武士家族的库尔德医生,一位卷入内战的叙利亚大学生,一位伊拉克女权工作者,以及一位变成“伊斯兰国”武装分子的伊拉克劳工——挣扎求存的人生经历来观察这片破碎和动荡的土地,将当前的苦难追溯至2003年美军入侵伊拉克乃至更早。 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【编辑推荐】 作者从六个主人公的命运的角度,为我们呈现了“阿拉伯之春”后中东的动荡,即便在作者这个西方人眼里,“阿拉伯之春”也不再是民主的胜利,而要想扭转目前的乱局,在作者看来便是美国不再兜售宗教战争这样的说辞,更多从社会和经济角度解决现实问题。本书是一部颇具穿透力和洞察力的新闻纪实作品,能帮助我们更清楚地了解这场史无前例的地缘政治悲剧,以及体会国家保持和平与稳定的价值。 作者追根溯源,提出的不能忽视西方在“人工构建”国家时埋下的,不顾民族凝聚力和较少考虑部族和派系分野的观点,也引人思考。 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【媒体获誉】 关于2003年美军伊拉克之后的中东地区动荡态势的简明有力、充满人道主义关怀的著述,精彩绝伦! ——《PBS新闻一小时》 一项艰巨的任务……它对该地区的历史,部落主义的力量,以及处于动荡中的中东地区的世界性影响做了引人入胜的探究。 ——查理•罗斯
大围攻
The Great Siege: Malta 1565 Douban
[英]厄恩利·布拉德福德 translator: 谭琦 publishing house: 社会科学文献出版社 2019 - 8
苏莱曼大帝,十六世纪最有权势的统治者之一,决心征服欧洲。挡在他征途上的是地中海上一座名为马耳他的岛——医院骑士团雄踞其上。决意夺取马耳他岛并利用其港口攻略欧洲大陆的苏莱曼派出近200艘舰船和不少于三万名陆军。守军仅八千人,在岛上各个堡垒受尽苦难,但决意战至最后一人。土耳其人预计仅会持续数周的围攻战在骑士团和马耳他人的坚守中愈演愈烈。厄恩利·布拉德福德的这部史料翔实、扣人心弦之作记述的并不只是一场史诗般的战斗,更是一场自波斯大军入侵希腊以来从未有过之剧烈的文明大碰撞。
The Muqaddimah
مقدمة ابن خلدون Douban
Ibn Khaldûn translator: Franz Rosenthal publishing house: Princeton University Press 2015 - 4
The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in the United States and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal's masterful translation first appeared in 1969. This Princeton Classics edition of the abridged version includes Rosenthal's original introduction as well as a contemporary introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence. This volume makes available a seminal work of Islam and medieval and ancient history to twenty-first century audiences.
The Arabs
Douban
Eugene Rogan publishing house: Basic Books 2011 - 4
Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern world. Starting with the Ottoman conquests in the sixteenth century, this landmark book follows the story of the Arabs through the era of European imperialism and the Superpower rivalries of the Cold War, to the present age of unipolar American power. Drawing on the writings and eyewitness accounts of those who lived through the tumultuous years of Arab history, The Arabs balances different voices - politicians, intellectuals, students, men and women, poets and novelists, famous, infamous and the completely unknown - to give a rich, complex sense of life over nearly five centuries. Rogan's book is remarkable for its geographical sweep, covering the Arab world from North Africa through the Arabian Peninsula, and for the depth in which it explores every facet of modern Arab history. Charting the evolution of Arab identity from Ottomanism to Arabism to Islamism, it covers themes including the conflict between national independence and foreign domination, the Arab-Israeli struggle and the peace process, Abdel Nasser and the rise of Arab Nationalism, the political and economic power of oil and the conflict between secular and Islamic values. This multilayered, fascinating and definitive work is the essential guide to understanding the history of the modern Arab world - and its future.
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June 8, 2019
写了北非和中东的阿拉伯化的国家从1516年起五百年的斗争和苦难,尤其以近百年为重,且局限于政治、宗教、战争方面,并非是一部全面的阿拉伯人的历史。但作者逻辑清晰地从宏观角度说明了这些国家所经历的动荡之间的关联,辅以许多同时代名人和平民的生动记录,让近650页的书读起来欲罢不能。看的是企鹅17年第3版,已经紧随时局发展把原来的尾声扩写成第15章,希望中文版本靠谱一点。
阿拉伯 历史
The White Goddess
Douban
Robert Graves publishing house: Faber & Faber 1999 - 8
The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure and mysterious power of "pure poetry" and its peculiar and mythic language.
雅典的胜利
The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World’s Greatest Civilization Douban
[英]安东尼·艾福瑞特 translator: 杨彬 publishing house: 中信出版集团·新思文化 2019 - 5
雅典城邦,孕育了民主政治的起源,在爱琴海上成就贸易和海军霸业,又尘埃落定于一座古典文化的学园。它偏居地中海世界的一角,人口不过20万左右,却在人类文明的每个领域都留下了惊人创举。 雅典人天才狡黠、踌躇满志,也放荡不羁,他们的热情驱动着雅典的建立和辉煌:杰出的海军将领塞米 斯托克利斯,率领希腊人痛击波斯入侵者;雄辩的雅典执政官,在政治家中无出其右;睿智的亚西比德,在伯罗奔尼撒战争中几次变节,最后死在刺客的弓箭之下。 放眼雅典城邦之外,斯巴达纪律严明,好战尚武,与崇尚享乐的雅典人截然相反;波斯帝国幅员辽阔,与雅典人竞争小亚细亚沿岸的希腊城邦。三股强权缠绕交错,战争变成和平,继而烽烟又起。直至雅典国力衰落,被亚历山大纳入囊中,却独以它的自由原则与哲学思想,成为西方世界文明的标志,西方人的精神故乡。 这是一个蕞尔小邦改变世界的故事。雅典人在古典文明的碰撞中抓住了机遇,以天才而自由的思想为自己戴上桂冠。 =========================================== ※ 一座欧洲角落里的城邦,用思想与自由的成就为自己戴上桂冠 古代雅典城邦坐落在地中海世界的边缘,人口不过20万左右,却成为孕育西方文明的起源地。雅典人在每个领域都有惊人创举——他们发明唯一的直接民主制度,其理念从古典时代一直影响至今;他们崇尚理性,诞生了无数“百科全书”式的学者;他们创造了哲学的概念,从此人类开始探寻有关自身的基本问题;他们也开创了悲剧喜剧、建筑雕塑的艺术形式。当我们称颂古希腊的文明,我们实际上在说的就是雅典的胜利。 ※ 描绘雅典民主辩论场上的政治群星、雅典学园里的思想巨人 回到两千多年前,让我们路过雅典市集,可听到苏格拉底向市民传授伦理知识,在公民大会上,我们能听到身为改革者的执政官伯里克利,对公民发表雄辩精彩的演说;若放眼海洋,便能海军将领赛米斯托克利斯,率领希腊人痛击波斯入侵者。雅典的建立与辉煌,正是由这一群天才人物的雅典精神所驱动。 ※ 以雅典城邦为中心,辐射整个古典地中海世界的强权纷争 好战尚武的斯巴达城邦、虎视眈眈的波斯帝国,渴望霸权的马其顿,也是雅典历史上的重要配角。雅典与他们时而结为盟友,时而发起冲突,截然不同的文化基石相互碰撞挤压,也彼此塑造。雅典为何能从诸多城邦王国中脱颖而出,甚至一度成为爱琴海上的霸主?即使它一度被其他国家征服,却以其文明赢得征服者的渴慕? ※ 扎实的文学功底,小说的笔法讲述雅典建立、崛起、称霸直到陨落的千年历史 从《荷马史诗》中特洛伊的围困为开端,将雅典起源的神话传说娓娓道来。他将那些耳熟能详的战争渲染得更加戏剧,悲壮如马拉松的故事,激烈如温泉关战役。他也从哲学经典中,仔细收集思想家如苏格拉底、色诺芬的趣闻逸事。用一本书细数古希腊文明史上的那些高光时刻,古希腊经典作品从此不再晦涩难读。 ※ 游戏玩家、电影观众也不可缺少的一本收藏品 如果你碰巧是《文明》《全面战争》系列游戏的玩家则不能错过这本书,看雅典城邦如何在思想、宗教、艺术、建筑各领域铸造“奇观”。
佩拉宫的午夜
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul Douban
★ 8.0 10 ratings
[美] 查尔斯·金 translator: 宋非 publishing house: 社会科学文献出版社 2016
查尔斯•金以画面感丰富的、万花筒式的记述,重现了佩拉宫大酒店、伊斯坦布尔古城作为全世界枢纽的时代,定格了欧洲和中东历史被遗忘的时刻。他娴熟的写作展现了爵士乐时代的革命和博斯普鲁斯海峡对抗死神的外交,这些环环相扣的故事既是迷人的史诗,也是对包罗万象的都市美德的赞歌,是全世界大城市的命脉。 从穆斯林选美皇后、格鲁吉亚皇室到列夫•托洛茨基,各色人物都在伊斯坦布尔留下了印迹,金机智地串起了他们的故事,不只素材丰富,可以吸引普通读者,细节也很到位,满足了专业人士。 ——《出版人周刊》 金精确细致地把这一段错综复杂的故事梳理出了几条主线,这本书有大量的考证研究,读起来非常过瘾,引人入胜。 ——《纽约时报书评》 精彩绝伦……一座古城成长的烦恼,在这一背景下还隐藏了多个人物传记。 ——《波士顿环球报》 这本书能够让我们仔细端详这座历久弥新的古城。 ——《西雅图时报》 这本书极富感染力,令人着迷。 ——《基督教科学箴言报》
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May 26, 2019
本来想给四星的,然后看到评论区的“含硅译者”……对照了一下前两章……好吧,的确…… = =b
土耳其 历史