Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago’s place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music in its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s was more than just a series of hits: it was a marker and a source of black empowerment. In Move On Up, Aaron Cohen tells the remarkable story of the explosion of soul music in Chicago. Together, soul music and black-owned businesses thrived. Record producers and song-writers broadcast optimism for black America’s future through their sophisticated, jazz-inspired productions for the Dells and many others. Curtis Mayfield boldly sang of uplift with unmistakable grooves like “We’re a Winner” and “I Plan to Stay a Believer.” Musicians like Phil Cohran and the Pharaohs used their music to voice Afrocentric philosophies that challenged racism and segregation, while Maurice White of Earth, Wind, and Fire and Chaka Khan created music that inspired black consciousness. Soul music also accompanied the rise of African American advertisers and the campaign of Chicago’s first black mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983. This empowerment was set in stark relief by the social unrest roiling in Chicago and across the nation: as Chicago’s homegrown record labels produced rising stars singing songs of progress and freedom, Chicago’s black middle class faced limited economic opportunities and deep-seated segregation, all against a backdrop of nationwide deindustrialization.
Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and a music critic’s passion for the unmistakable Chicago soul sound, Cohen shows us how soul music became the voice of inspiration and change for a city in turmoil.

For the first time, the hidden world of American communism can be examined with the help of documents from the recently opened archives of the former Soviet Union. Interweaving narrative and documents, the authors of this book present a convincing new picture of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), providing proof that it was involved in espionage and other subversive activities. At the same time, they disclose fascinating details about the workings of the party and about the ordinary Americans and CPUSA leaders who participated in its clandestine activities. "A formidable achievement in archival research. No one will be able to write about the cpusa in the future without reference to this volume."-Maurice Isserman, Nation "A memorable, powerful book...One of this year's most significant books about twentieth-century American political history."-David J. Garrow, New York Newsday "This book contains the first new revelation about American Communism in a generation. It is superbly edited and admirably presented. No one interested in the history of the American Communism can afford to miss it." -Theodore Draper Harvey Klehr, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Politics at Emory University, is also the author of The Heyday of American Communism. John Earl Haynes is a specialist in twentieth-century American history at the Library of Congress. Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov is formerly of the Comintern Archive at the Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Recent History.

1789年7月和8月初，一股异乎寻常的恐慌蔓延整个法国，几乎无与伦比地展示了谣言的力量及其对整个社会造成的冲击。短短两星期内，在三分之二的法国领土上，一座座城镇和村庄相继沦陷，只因害怕“盗匪”来袭。据说，这群盗匪在乡间一路烧杀抢掠，无恶不作。在恐惧的胁迫下，大批村社居民纷纷逃离家园，藏身近旁的树丛和森林。或者，他们匆匆纠集起来，在城镇外围拦起路障，试图抵御歹徒的袭击。在恐慌期间，最令人惊讶的事实莫过于——那些令人战栗的“盗匪”实际上从不存在。
本书作者勒费弗尔堪称20世纪研究法国大革命独一无二的大家，通过对法国国家档案馆和国家图书馆收藏的当代出版物和手稿的仔细研究，他对大恐慌作了旨趣迥异的描述和解释，并深入探讨了可能引发大恐慌的深层原因和背景因素。
这一著作不愧是对法国大革命时期的大众心理和集体情感最卓越和最有影响力的研究之一，是一部史学经典，任何有志于了解历史上人类行为动机的读者都不应错过。
北京大学历史教授高毅审校并作序
美国加州大学尔湾分校荣休教授谭旋
法国鲁昂大学历史学系教授米歇尔·比阿尔 专为此版作序推荐

Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman Empire- Allied and African German Colonies, and other unknown or forgotten fronts and battles. Original French production retold in English for National Geographic channel as: World War 1: The Apocalypse

Series in which intrepid presenter Kate Humble follows the ancient frankincense trade route of Arabia across the amazing modern world of the Middle East. Kate's journey along the 2,000-mile trail that first connected the Arab world with the West takes her on a quest that's steeped in history, searing with desert heat, and full of characters and adventure.
For 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, frankincense was more valuable than gold. Its sweet smelling aromatic smoke was treasured by Pharaohs and Caesars, and their insatiable demand for frankincense created a trade route from the southern coast of Oman to the Holy Lands. Vast camel caravans carried thousands of tonnes of frankincense over tribal lands - known today as Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Israel and Palestine. Following the trail across these seven nations, Kate finds modernity coexisting with ancient traditions as she discovers what it means to be a Western woman in Arabia.
Part 1: Oman ,Yemen and Saudi Arabia
Kate begins her epic journey following high in the hills of southern Oman. With her own supply of the precious resin, she walks with the Al Mahri tribe - the descendants of the ancient traders - and their 300 camels along the original trail through the scorching Empty Quarter desert. Crossing into Yemen, Kate arrives at the world's first skyscraper city, where her frankincense is used at the ritual blessing of a newborn baby. From the modern frankincense trade capital of Aden to an incredible camel-jumping contest, Kate journeys north and enters the mysterious Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Part 2: Saudi Arabia
Kate Humble follows the path of the ancient frankincense trade route through one of the most enigmatic nations on Earth - the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
With unprecedented access, Kate enters the world of the nation's richest man, meets a remote mountain tribe whose ancestors once guarded the trade routes and who live at the fringe of Saudi society today, and discovers the treasures of an untouched shipwreck that once carried frankincense on the crystal-clear waters of the Red Sea. Travelling by camel, glider and boat, she traces the 1,000-mile trail through the Kingdom and discovers the modern nation and its people.
Part 3: Egypt
Kate Humble crosses the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia to Egypt following the frankincense trail of the Pharaohs. Travelling the length of the Nile, Kate enters Karnack, the world's largest religious site. She looks at the mummy of the once beautiful Queen of the Pharaohs, reveals the death rituals of the Pharaohs in the vast tomb of the Pyramids of Giza, jostles with thousands of ecstatic Christians, and in an extraordinary ceremony in the Sinai desert is cleansed of evil spirits.
Part 4: Jordan and Israel
In this final episode, Kate Humble concludes her remarkable frankincense trail from Oman, across seven nations to Jordan, and on to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She reveals the secrets behind the ancient Jordanian stone city of Petra, flies with a daredevil female pilot over the Sinai desert, travels to the sacred city Jerusalem, and finds out why a small plot of land is the most contested site in the world. Kate ends her extraordinary journey following in the footsteps of the Three Wise Men to Bethlehem

迈克尔·李维斯（MichaelReeves）是“高校基督徒团契”（Universitiesand Colleges Christian Fellowship，UCCF）——一个支持在全英国高校中传福音的慈善机构的神学顾问，作者此前在位于伦敦朗豪街的万灵教会（AllSouls Church）担任助理牧师，并在伦敦国王学院（King’s College London）获得系统神学博士。

＊本書譯自中倉玄喜編譯《〈新訳〉ローマ帝国衰亡史》普及版上下卷。係以J‧D‧Bury編撰（全七卷、一九〇九年）的版本為底本同時參考舊維京版，編成篇章。
一本讀通羅馬帝國的文明盛衰故事
十八世紀史家的標竿、現代史家必讀的經典之作
《羅馬帝國衰亡史》原著卷帙浩繁共有六冊，本書係精縮重要核心內容編寫而成的精簡版。
歷史上並沒有其他國家像羅馬一樣，經過了兩千多年期間通過各式各樣的困難考驗而續存下來的國家。而且，以成為現代世界文明主流的西歐文明來看，除了直接起源的古代羅馬，並沒有其他足以影響他們的文明。作者體現了反對暴君專制，宣揚自由平等，建立新的社會秩序等思想；從政治、軍事和文化等角度，具體追述帝國如何埋下腐敗和分裂的種子，在啟蒙主義思想的影響下，以理性主義和批判精神考察基督教的興起，並客觀地陳述基督教的興起、傳播與羅馬文明的衰落關係，不僅是羅馬帝國歷史的最權威經典的著作，而且在史識與史學思想上都為歷史學做出貢獻。
精簡版的內容正適合忙於工作，沒有機會直接翻閱本書的社會各界人士需求；透過閱讀本書，能夠了解古羅馬帝國的歷史，並從中理解、汲取歷史的價值。

This popular classic text chronicles America's roller-coaster journey through the decades since World War II. Considering both the paradoxes and the possibilities of post-war America, Chafe portrays the significant cultural and political themes that have colored our country's past and present,
including issues of race, class, gender, foreign policy, and economic and social reform. He examines such subjects as the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement, the origins and the end of the Cold War, the culture of the 1970s, the Reagan years, the Clinton presidency, and the events of September
11th and their aftermath.
In this edition, Chafe provides an insightful assessment of Clinton's legacy as president, particularly in light of his impeachment, and an entirely new chapter that examines the impact of two of America's most pivotal events of the twenty-first century: the 2000 presidential election turmoil and
the September 11th terrorist attacks. Chafe puts forth an excellent account of George W. Bush's first year as president and also covers his subsequent role as a world leader following his administration's declared war on terrorism. The completely revised epilogue and updated bibliographic essay
offer a compelling and controversial final commentary on America's past and its future. Brilliantly written by a prize-winning historian, the fifth edition of The Unfinished Journey is an essential text for all students of recent American history.

荷兰汉学家高罗佩重写初唐名臣狄仁杰传奇
兼具中国古典文学雅韵与西方侦探小说妙趣
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□全新无删减译本
□高罗佩手绘插图
□创作背景全解析
□译者研究高罗佩多年，独自担纲翻译，保证文风统一
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“大唐狄公案”成功地造成了“中国的福尔摩斯”，并被译成多种外文出版，在中国与世 界文化交流史上留下重重的一笔。译文版“大唐狄公案”计划出版十五种，由研究高罗佩多年的 张凌担纲翻译并撰写兼具学术性和可读性的注释和译后记，但因为是市面上仅见的一人独立翻译的版本，耗时耗力，故先推出五种（《黄金案》《铁钉案》《湖滨案》《铜钟案》《迷宫案》）以飨读者。每卷配有高罗佩本人创作的插图，古韵盎然，令人赏心悦目。
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《湖滨案》讲述公元666年，狄公调任汉源县令，路遇江湖骗子陶干并收服，破获歌伎杏花被害一案，张家新娘失踪一案，白莲教谋反一案。
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“大唐狄公案”系列是高罗佩在世界侦探小说领域内开创的极其珍贵的一个支脉。
——《泰晤士报文学增刊》
高罗佩的生花妙笔让古老的中国再一次充满活力地出现在人们面前。
——《纽约时报书评》

对魏晋之际的诸种研究，大体是站在陈寅恪先生相关论述的延长线上加以发展、修正，运用政治集团学说所具有的利弊在这一时段的研究中也有充分的体现。自从1980年代以来，涌现了不少从个别历史事件的考证入手，通过细节的考证复原魏晋之际政治变局的佳作，本书之作亦得益于此。《魏晋之际的政治权力与家族网络》采取将政治史与家族史研究相结合的方式，一方面在政治史的脉络中探讨西晋权力结构从形成到崩溃的过程，另一方面考察魏晋大族之间的政治、婚姻、交往网络，探究这一网络在魏晋政治变局中发挥的作用。

本剧是ZDF电视台纪念包豪斯成立100周年的献礼之作，由Anna Maria Mühe和August Diehl领衔主演。本剧将目光投向了包豪斯在魏玛成立之初的那段时光，以Walter Gropius与女学生Dörte Helm之间的情感纠葛为切入点，展现了包豪斯立校之初风雨飘摇的那段历史，以及魏玛时期的德国风貌。

Gang of Four
Episode 1 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists. In the first episode, Waldemar delves into the back stories of four of the most influential Impressionists - Pissarro, Monet, Renoir and Bazille - who together laid the foundations of the artistic movement. He finds out what social and cultural influences drove them to their style of painting, how they were united and how ultimately they challenged and changed art forever.
Waldemar journeys from the shores of the West Indies, to the progressive city of Paris to the suburbs of South London, where these four artists drew inspiration from the cities and towns in which they lived. Whether it be the infamous spot on the river Seine - La Grenouillere - where Monet and Renoir beautifully captured animated people, iridescent light and undulating water or the minimalist, non-sensationalised illustrations of Pissarro's coarse countryside paintings, Waldemar discovers how the Impressionists broke conventions by depicting every day encounters within the unpredictable and ever changing sights around them.
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Painting outdoors
Episode 2 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists by taking us outdoors to their most famous locations. Although Impressionist pictures often look sunny and relaxed, achieving this peaceful air was hard work. Trudging through fog, wind and rain, across treacherous coastal rocks and knee-deep snow, Waldemar shows how the famous spontaneity of the Impressionists is thoroughly misleading.
This episode visits the French riverside locations that Monet loved to paint, and where Renoir captured the bonhomie of modern life. Waldemar also introduces a number of technical and practical developments of the age which completely revolutionised Impressionist painting - the invention of portable easels; the use of hog's hair in paint brushes; as well as the introduction of the railway through France. And a scientific demonstration in a Swedish snowdrift explains just how right the Impressionists were to paint brightly coloured shadows in their winter scenes, despite being accused of 'hallucinating' at the time.
Finally, Januszczak explains Cezanne's part in the Impressionist story from his dark and challenging early work to his first rural landscapes in France, and then his departure from Paris and separation from the Impressionist gang.
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Painting the People
Episode 3 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists, focusing this time on the people they painted and in particular the subjects of Degas, Caillebotte and the often forgotten Impressionist women artists. The Impressionists are famous for painting landscape but they were just as determined to paint people.
Looking closely at one of Impressionism's finest painters, Edgar Degas, Waldemar reveals how he consistently challenged traditions and strove to record real life as it appeared in the city, from sculpting the contorted movements of horses in motion at the Longchamp race course in Paris to encapsulating extravagant 3D viewpoints of the ballet dancers at the Paris Opera.
Waldemar also uncovers the intoxicating haziness the pastel produced in Degas' work when visiting his supplier Pastels de Roche. He also reveals the unusual viewpoints and dramatic perspectives of Caillebotte's paintings from the Place de L'Europe and the rebellious and revolutionary art of Morisot, Bracquemond and Cassatt, three impressive female artists who were eagerly embraced by the progressive movement of Impressionism
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Final Flourish
Episode 4 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
This episode takes a closer look at the late years of Impressionism, using the last show these artists did together as a starting point.
Waldemar looks in considerable depth at the work of Georges Seurat, taking into consideration his academic training at the Beaux-Arts School in Paris and the artists that influenced him, such as Piero della Francesca and Puvis de Chavannes.
There is also an insight into the complex but fascinating world of optics and art, and the ways in which the Impressionists were using the new discoveries in light and eyesight to influence their work. A fascinating 'after-image' experiment brings to life the ways in which our own eyes see colour, both in its presence and its absence.
Van Gogh's time in Paris, a period very little is known about, is also covered, charting the incredible journey the artist made from his brown and dull canvases to the splendid colour and light that pervaded his work on the cusp of his departure for the South of France.
The film finishes with a revisiting of Monet and his later waterlily paintings in the Orangerie in Paris. Waldemar investigates how a bad case of cataracts was responsible for a seismic shift in his colour palette and his brushstrokes. Spending time with an ophthalmologist, he finds out how old age and a fairly common ailment of the eyes caused Impressionism to shift and become radical again at the turn of the century and into the 20th century

荷兰汉学家高罗佩重写初唐名臣狄仁杰传奇
兼具中国古典文学雅韵与西方侦探小说妙趣
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□全新无删减译本
□高罗佩手绘插图
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□译者研究高罗佩多年，独自担纲翻译，保证文风统一
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“大唐狄公案”成功地造成了“中国的福尔摩斯”，并被译成多种外文出版，在中国与世 界文化交流史上留下重重的一笔。译文版“大唐狄公案”计划出版十五种，由研究高罗佩多年的 张凌担纲翻译并撰写兼具学术性和可读性的注释和译后记，但因为是市面上仅见的一人独立翻译的版本，耗时耗力，故先推出五种（《黄金案》《铁钉案》《湖滨案》《铜钟案》《迷宫案》）以飨读者。每卷配有高罗佩本人创作的插图，古韵盎然，令人赏心悦目。
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《黄金案》讲述公元663年，狄仁杰首任蓬莱县令，家仆洪亮随行，路遇绿林好汉马荣、乔泰并收服二人。他随后破获前任县令王元被投毒身亡一案，顾孟宾新妇失踪一案，范仲被杀一案。在这一小小的中国东北部港口——一个据说死者会在风雨夜爬出坟冢的诡异地方，狄公一举解决了三桩扑朔迷离的案件。
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“大唐狄公案”系列是高罗佩在世界侦探小说领域内开创的极其珍贵的一个支脉。
——《泰晤士报文学增刊》
《黄金案》带给我巨大的快乐……虽然裹上了中国习俗，这却是部真正的西方侦探小说，不仅如此，我们还看到“硬汉派”作品的某些招牌设定（比如私家侦探和反戈一击的高丽美女）被成功化入了一个古老而陌生的背景中，实在是妙趣横生。
——雅克•巴赞

荷兰汉学家高罗佩重写初唐名臣狄仁杰传奇
兼具中国古典文学雅韵与西方侦探小说妙趣
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□全新无删减译本
□高罗佩手绘插图
□创作背景全解析
□译者研究高罗佩多年，独自担纲翻译，保证文风统一
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“大唐狄公案”成功地造成了“中国的福尔摩斯”，并被译成多种外文出版，在中国与世 界文化交流史上留下重重的一笔。译文版“大唐狄公案”计划出版十五种，由研究高罗佩多年的 张凌担纲翻译并撰写兼具学术性和可读性的注释和译后记，但因为是市面上仅见的一人独立翻译的版本，耗时耗力，故先推出五种（《黄金案》《铁钉案》《湖滨案》《铜钟案》《迷宫案》）以飨读者。每卷配有高罗佩本人创作的插图，古韵盎然，令人赏心悦目。
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《铁钉案》讲述676年，狄公调任北州县令，破获无头女尸一案，角抵大师被毒杀一案，陆明猝死一案。之后被擢升为京师大理寺卿。洪亮在办案中遇害身亡。
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“大唐狄公案”系列是高罗佩在世界侦探小说领域内开创的极其珍贵的一个支脉。
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写过小说的汉学家不止高罗佩，但以小说而赢得广泛声誉的，唯有高罗佩一人而已。
——严晓星

In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still shapes our lives today. Bauhaus 100 is the story of Walter Gropius, architect and founder of the Bauhaus, and the teachers and students he gathered to form this influential school. Traumatised by his experiences during the Great War, and determined that technology should never again be used for destruction, Gropius decided to reinvent the way art and design were taught. At the Bauhaus, all the disciplines would come together to create the buildings of the future, and define a new way of living in the modern world.

On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall John Simpson, the BBC’s world affairs editor, will go back in time to examine his reports on one of the most defining moments of the 20th century. As he examines the BBC’s extensive archive he will consider why history has not turned out quite the way he hoped, and why global politics now is in fact even more complex and worrying now than it was then.
On 9 November 1989, as the Berlin Wall’s check points opened up, Simpson rushed to Berlin to cover this incredible event which he thought, like many others, would change the world for the better. Three decades on, Simpson wonders if he was wrong to be so optimistic and talks with historians and other experts to try and understand just how accurate his reporting was.
He’ll examine why the Cold War battle that built the Berlin Wall was replaced with other destabilising global power-struggles, why he didn’t predict that the pace of change across Europe would lead to the terrible war in Yugoslavia, and why Russia would find a new guise in which to become a bitter enemy to the West.
At the heart of the film is an intense and personal interview where he describes how he grew up in the shadow of the Cold War power battle between the capitalist West and the communist East and how he never thought the Berlin Wall would fall in his lifetime. He believed, like everybody else, this global stand-off would continue for many more decades, ending sooner or later in nuclear war.

神探福迩，字摩斯，满族镶蓝旗，咸丰四年（1854年）出生，卒年不祥，主要活跃于光绪年间，其事迹由生平挚友华笙大夫记载，以白话小说形式出版，清末民初时期曾风靡一时，可惜在抗战后逐渐被遗忘。如今由莫理斯博士重新整理校对及注释，把已绝版的福迩探案传奇再次发行，介绍给新一代的读者。
本书收录六篇发生于1881年至1885年之间的案件，每篇都是独立单元故事；既可分开来读，亦可由头到尾一气呵成看完，当作一部融合侦探、武侠及近代历史等元素的长篇小说来欣赏，实为趣味盎然、不可多得。

现今，我们已经进入全球化时代。全球化彻底改变了我们的认知方式，我们已无法孤立地研究民族国家，也不再可能认同世界历史源自西方这种说法。
全球史是目前历史学科里发展迅猛讨论激烈的热门领域，在历史研究领域也已成为一个富有活力和创新性的学科，它以世界整体的连贯性为出发点，有力地挑战了我们之前的史学方法。
《全球史是什么》全面概述了历史学中这一令人振奋的新取径，探究了全球史学科在21世纪将要面临的某些重大问题：全球史与其他世界史诠释有何差别？我们如何摆脱欧洲中心论，却又不陷入新的中心论，进而书写一部全球史？历史学家如何比较诸多社群，并找到不同地域之间的兼容性？全球史有什么政治意涵？此书还深入浅出地探讨了这种新范式的局限乃至风险，以及全球史的受众等诸多问题。
《全球史是什么》细致剖析了全球史的兴起、特质、方法论、前景及局限。作者塞巴斯蒂安•康拉德为当下全球史研究的领军人物，他认为：全球史既是一个研究对象，又是一种审视历史的独特方式；既是过程，又是视角；既是研究主题，又是方法论；全球史的核心关怀是流动、交换、各种跨越边界的事件以及大规模结构性转型和整合进程。
历史学家如何经由整体地理解世界历史，为我们当今全球化的世界重绘历史学图景？本书将给出答案。
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全球史译丛（见识城邦出品）：
01：全球史是什么[德]塞巴斯蒂安•康拉德（Sebastian Conrad）著
02：堕落之海：地中海史研究[英]佩里格林•霍登（Peregrine Horden）[英]尼古拉斯•普塞尔（Nicholas Purcell）著
03：19世纪大转型[德]安德烈•贡德•弗兰克（Andre Gunder Frank）著
04：万国一邦：美国在世界史中的地位[美]托马斯•本德(Thomas Bender) 著
05：公司与将军：荷兰人与幕府时代日本的相遇[英]亚当•克卢洛（Adam Clulow）著
06：近代早期世界的全球互动（1400—1800年）[美]查理斯•帕克（Charles Parker）著
07：蚊子帝国：1620—1914年间加勒比地区的生态战争[美]J. R. 麦克尼尔（J. R. McNeill）著
08：中间地带：大湖区的印第安人、帝国和共和国（1650—1815年）[美]理查德•怀特（Richard White）著
09：美国宪法的全球史（1776—1989年）[美]乔治•A．比利亚斯（George Athan Billias）著
10：现代世界的诞生（1780—1914年）[英]C. A. 贝利（C. A. Bayly）著
11：交换之物：荷兰黄金时代的商业、医学与科学[美]柯浩德（Harold J. Cook）著
12：鸟粪与太平洋世界的开启：全球生态史[美]格里高利•库什曼（Gregory T. Cushman）著
13：气候变化与全球史[美]约翰•L. 布鲁克（John L. Brooke）著
14：大转型：中世纪晚期世界的气候、疾病与社会[英]布鲁斯•M. S. 坎贝尔（Bruce M. S. Campbell）著
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Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history--Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, and Lester Young, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie's advocacy of modern jazz in the 1940s, Miles Davis's 1955 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Ornette Coleman's experiments with atonality, Pat Metheny's visionary extension of jazz-rock fusion, the contemporary sounds of Wynton Marsalis, and the post-modernists of the current day. Gioia provides the reader with lively portraits of these and many other great musicians, intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. He also evokes the many worlds of jazz, taking the reader to the swamp lands of the Mississippi Delta, the bawdy houses of New Orleans, the rent parties of Harlem, the speakeasies of Chicago during the Jazz Age, the after hours spots of corrupt Kansas city, the Cotton Club, the Savoy, and the other locales where the history of jazz was made. And as he traces the spread of this protean form, Gioia provides much insight into the social context in which the music was born.