外国历史
创造日本 豆瓣 谷歌图书
Inventing Japan: 1853-1964
7.7 (38 个评分)
作者:
[荷兰] 伊恩·布鲁玛
译者:
倪韬
出版社:
四川人民出版社
2018
- 2
从为黑船震动惊恐的江户幕府,到主办东京奥运迎向全球的现代化国家,
伊恩•布鲁玛深入浅出地重新解读“日本成为现在的日本”的过程,
发掘日本真实而复杂的面貌,探索日本模式蕴含的黑暗力量,提供借镜历史、思索未来的独到视角。
从1853年马修•佩里的黑船驶入江户湾,结束长达二百多年的锁国,到在美国的监管下成为一个经济高度发展,并于1964年成功举办东京奥运的现代国家,日本不过用了一百多年的时间。在这本睿智、优美而精简的书中,伊恩•布鲁玛通过对这一历史时期的细腻考察,清晰地呈现日本历经的种种重大事件及相继而来的转变,从倒幕运动、明治维新、日俄战争、侵华战争、东京审判,一直到美国接管及东京奥运。布鲁玛深刻地探讨日本社会思想、政治秩序和经济生活等各个面向,并以独到和客观的视角解释日本如何经历这些戏剧性的巨变及伴随的战争与变革,最后从一个小小封闭的传统岛国一跃成为牵动东亚乃至世界的现代国家。
伊恩•布鲁玛深入浅出地重新解读“日本成为现在的日本”的过程,
发掘日本真实而复杂的面貌,探索日本模式蕴含的黑暗力量,提供借镜历史、思索未来的独到视角。
从1853年马修•佩里的黑船驶入江户湾,结束长达二百多年的锁国,到在美国的监管下成为一个经济高度发展,并于1964年成功举办东京奥运的现代国家,日本不过用了一百多年的时间。在这本睿智、优美而精简的书中,伊恩•布鲁玛通过对这一历史时期的细腻考察,清晰地呈现日本历经的种种重大事件及相继而来的转变,从倒幕运动、明治维新、日俄战争、侵华战争、东京审判,一直到美国接管及东京奥运。布鲁玛深刻地探讨日本社会思想、政治秩序和经济生活等各个面向,并以独到和客观的视角解释日本如何经历这些戏剧性的巨变及伴随的战争与变革,最后从一个小小封闭的传统岛国一跃成为牵动东亚乃至世界的现代国家。
Description De L'egypte 豆瓣
作者:
Gilles Neret
出版社:
Taschen
2007
- 4
Everyday life in the Egypt of the Pharaohs
What do we really know about our ancestors? Not about the rulers and generals, but about labourers, farmers, soldiers and families. Egypt is a perfect case in point, almost a blank slate for most of us as regards details of their everyday life. This useful and informative book attempts to set the record straight by offering a distinctive take on that most mythologised of epochs.
Who would have guessed for example that the first strike in recorded history took place in 1152 BC during work on the necropolis in the Valley of the Kings, a protest by construction workers against delayed deliveries of oil and flour. Two fairly banal commodities maybe, but essential: Oil protected the skin against the savage desert climate, whilst flour was the base ingredient for thirty different kinds of nutritional cake.
It is this detailed examination of the evidence that distinguishes this volume, with chapters (all uniquely headed in the corresponding hieroglyphs) on everything from relationships to leisure activities, the role of women to the manufacture of mummies. And just like the mummies, "fragile as eggshell but solid as a statue", magically able to transcend death, so both people and country are brought alive for us again.
What do we really know about our ancestors? Not about the rulers and generals, but about labourers, farmers, soldiers and families. Egypt is a perfect case in point, almost a blank slate for most of us as regards details of their everyday life. This useful and informative book attempts to set the record straight by offering a distinctive take on that most mythologised of epochs.
Who would have guessed for example that the first strike in recorded history took place in 1152 BC during work on the necropolis in the Valley of the Kings, a protest by construction workers against delayed deliveries of oil and flour. Two fairly banal commodities maybe, but essential: Oil protected the skin against the savage desert climate, whilst flour was the base ingredient for thirty different kinds of nutritional cake.
It is this detailed examination of the evidence that distinguishes this volume, with chapters (all uniquely headed in the corresponding hieroglyphs) on everything from relationships to leisure activities, the role of women to the manufacture of mummies. And just like the mummies, "fragile as eggshell but solid as a statue", magically able to transcend death, so both people and country are brought alive for us again.
波斯战火 豆瓣
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West
作者:
汤姆·霍兰
译者:
于润生
出版社:
新星出版社
2009
《波斯战火-第一个世界帝国及其西征》内容简介:2500年前,东方和西方之间第一次兵戎相见。公元前五世纪初,某个全球性的超级大国决心要给两个被认定为恐怖主义国家的城邦雅典和斯巴达带去真理和秩序。这个超级大国就是波斯,其历代国王建立起历史上第一个世界帝国,这个帝国的财富、人力和雄心壮志都无可匹敌。这个惊心动魄的故事讲述的就是两座城邦的居民迎击当时世界上最强大的人并打败他的历史过程。 雅典人在马拉松平原上的冲锋;万王之王薛西斯乘坐战车跨越浮桥从亚洲来到欧洲;斯巴达人在温泉关英勇坚守:这些场景都放射出崇高而壮丽的光芒。《波斯战火》不仅完美地表现了这场战争的自身,而且非凡地展示出东方和西方世界的全景。从巴比伦寺庙中的祭司到斯巴达人的秘密政策;从波斯人对鸭子和园艺的热爱到雅典人对妓女的热衷;从大流士这个中东历史上的杀人者、篡位者和政治天才到地米斯托克利这位拯救西方的英雄:这一切在汤姆·霍兰完美的叙事中都重新获得了灿烂的生命。