In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the “Sea Peoples” invaded Egypt. The pharaoh’s army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen?
In this major new account of the causes of this “First Dark Ages,” Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries.
A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age—and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece.

放眼世界，博弈是永恒的主题，但每个时代的大国博弈又有其自身的特点。天涯论坛国际观察代表人物温骏轩历时8年，以地理环境为切入点，以地图为工具，从地缘视角探讨了中国崛起路线。在地域上，他形象生动地解析了欧洲、东亚、东南亚、南亚等区域与中国的地缘政治关系；从时间上 ，他回顾了世界的历史，探讨了文明兴衰、民族兴亡的规律，为我们了解当今世界大国格局和未来国际趋势提供了一种全新的视角和更广阔的视野。

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Illuminating one thousand years of history, The Pilgrim Art explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe. Cobalt ore was shipped from Persia to China in the fourteenth century, where it was used to decorate porcelain for Muslims in Southeast Asia, India, Persia, and Iraq. Spanish galleons delivered porcelain to Peru and Mexico while aristocrats in Europe ordered tableware from Canton. The book tells the fascinating story of how porcelain became a vehicle for the transmission and assimilation of artistic symbols, themes, and designs across vast distances--from Japan and Java to Egypt and England. It not only illustrates how porcelain influenced local artistic traditions but also shows how it became deeply intertwined with religion, economics, politics, and social identity. Bringing together many strands of history in an engaging narrative studded with fascinating vignettes, this is a history of cross-cultural exchange focused on an exceptional commodity that illuminates the emergence of what is arguably the first genuinely global culture.
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"The Pilgrim Art is a remarkable work of synthesis. With porcelain as his focus, Robert Finlay puts the histories of China, India, the Islamic world, Europe, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and East Africa into dialogue with one another. In highlighting the interactions, exchanges, and influences that linked these regions, he makes a distinctive contribution to understanding of the global past. He blends the histories of production, distribution, and consumption with the histories of technology, trade, and art, as well as social history, commodity history, cultural history, political history, and literary history. The result is a rich stew of historical analysis combining close attention to detail with graceful writing and a clear focus on global themes. The Pilgrim Art ranks as an example of contemporary world history at its finest." --Jerry H. Bentley, Editor of the Journal of World History and author of Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times
"Finlay traces the rise and fall of Chinese porcelain across global flows of desire, artistic symbols and styles, innovation, espionage, competition and colonial power. This is commodity history as it should be written--exciting, engaging, with a masterful attention to regional context, be it France, Japan, India, or the Swahili Coast."--Stewart Gordon, author of When Asia was the World

It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury–and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true. Promising to double investors’ money in three months, the dapper, charming Ponzi raised the “rob Peter to pay Paul” scam to an art form. At the peak of his success, Ponzi was raking in more than $2 million a week at his office in downtown Boston. Then his house of cards came crashing down–thanks in large part to the relentless investigative reporting of Richard Grozier’s Boston Post. A classic American tale of immigrant life and the dream of success, Ponzi’s Scheme is the amazing story of the magnetic scoundrel who launched the most successful scheme of financial alchemy in modern history.

The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution and what have been its mechanisms? In "The Gifts of Athena", Joel Mokyr constructs an original framework to analyze the concept of "useful" knowledge. He argues that the growth explosion in the modern West in the past two centuries was driven not just by the appearance of new technological ideas but also by the improved access to these ideas in society at large - as made possible by social networks comprising universities, publishers, professional sciences, and kindred institutions.Through a wealth of historical evidence set in clear and lively prose, he shows that changes in the intellectual and social environment and the institutional background in which knowledge was generated and disseminated brought about the Industrial Revolution, followed by sustained economic growth and continuing technological change. Mokyr draws a link between intellectual forces such as the European enlightenment and subsequent economic changes of the nineteenth century, and follows their development into the twentieth century. He further explores some of the key implications of the knowledge revolution. Among these is the rise and fall of the "factory system" as an organizing principle of modern economic organization. He analyzes the impact of this revolution on information technology and communications as well as on the public's state of health and the structure of households. By examining the social and political roots of resistance to new knowledge, Mokyr also links growth in knowledge to political economy and connects the economic history of technology to the New Institutional Economics. "The Gifts of Athena" provides crucial insights into a matter of fundamental concern to a range of disciplines including economics, economic history, political economy, the history of technology, and the history of science.

《东印度公司对华贸易编年史》是曾在中国海关担任过税务司的美国人马士所著。书上详尽地记载了自1635年-1834 年期间英国对华贸易的情况，而“事实上是广州与伦敦之间的贸易”（原序）。因此此书是研究早期中英贸易史的珍贵资料，特别是对研究广州十三行中英贸易史，具有极重要的价值。

One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year
In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art.

"A work of great ambition and enormous intellectual scope...consistently provocative and revealing."--New York Times
"Extraordinary...a summary cannot convey the riches of this book. It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books

本书是迄今为止第一部最为完整的中西交通史著作。该书共分四大篇章，详尽地论述了史前至近代包括南洋区域在内的中西交往史迹及历史过程，阐明民族、宗教、文化、交通、政治和贸易等诸般关系，尤以明清之际中西文化交流为主。

A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the world
In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world. In The Taste of Empire, Collingham masterfully shows that only by examining the history of Great Britain's global food system, from sixteenth-century Newfoundland fisheries to our present-day eating habits, can we fully understand our capitalist economy and its role in making our modern diets.
Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4
"Lizzie Collingham's fascinating new book...demonstrates that a cup of tea is never just a cup of tea-it is a history of trade, exchange, land-grab, agricultural innovation and economic change...Marvelously wide-ranging and readable."
-Financial Times (UK)
"[Collingham] is exploring largely virgin territory. For centuries historical studies focused on political and social narratives. Until recently economics did not receive anything like its proper attention. Collingham seeks to redress the...omission...A wholly pleasing book."
-Sunday Times (UK)
"Revelatory...Collingham's book ranges widely to show how 'Britain's quest for food shaped the modern world.' An original and thought-provoking book and for all the shocking accounts of the consequences of British appetites, a highly entertaining one."
-The Times (UK)
"This is a wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire."
--Max Hastings, Sunday Times (UK)
"An original and thought-provoking book and for all the shocking accounts of the consequences of British appetites, a highly entertaining one."
--The Times (UK)
"Lizzie Collingham's fascinating new book, The Taste of Empire, demonstrates that a cup of tea is never just a cup of tea--it is a history of trade, exchange, land-grab, agricultural innovation and economic change.... This is a marvelously wide-ranging and readable book, stuffed with engaging details and startling connections."
--Financial Times
"This ingeniously constructed history shows that what we think of as personal appetites have largely been constructed by the machinations of empire. The Taste of Empire uses vivid snapshots of meals to tell the story of how Britain's quest for food drove its imperial ambitions. Collingham takes the reader on a powerful journey ranging from the sugary tea of Great Britain to the rum punch of Boston. Like Sidney Mintz or Margaret Visser, Collingham is a historian whose writing about food informs larger stories about human existence: about conflict and culture, about economics and politics. I was dazzled by Collingham's writing and her book also left me very hungry."
--Bee Wilson, author of First Bite
"The Taste of Empire has a hidden history: the menu, and how it changed the world. Lizzie Collingham has uncovered an epic that runs from domestic comedy to horror to the startling shifts that brought rice to America, maize to Africa, and tea to India. She makes it absorbing and utterly readable, mixing the huge economic story with exact and fascinating glimpses into past lives. You'll never see a biscuit tin the same way once you know how they were used in the Zulu Wars."--Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the World
"Beyond gold and glory, an insatiable lust for foreign foods drove the juggernaut of British imperialism. So shows Lizzie Collingham in this rich economic history, drawing on annals military, mercantile and domestic to reveal the complex routes along with the fruits of the colonial fields and fisheries were shunted into Britain's dining rooms."
--Nature

Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.
People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself.
Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.
In Energy, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He addresses how we learned from such challenges, mastered their transitions, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also looks at the current energy landscape, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100.
Human beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each adaptation brought further challenges, and through such transformations, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes’s singular style, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow.

2001年，“近百年宋史研究的回顾与展望”研讨会在杭州召开，本书收录了会上提交的17篇论文，大致分为两个方面，一是关于宋代制度史几个具体侧面的回顾与反思，如行政制度、法律制度、军事制度等，另一方面则是利用宋代的例子，来讨论关于制度史研究的某些带有普遍意义的问题。
供高校历史系师生及历史专业读者使用参考。

中世纪时，居住在西欧的人普遍认为，自己生活在一个基督教的大同世界里。然而，在仅仅一个多世纪的时间里，它烟消云散，取而代之的是新诞生的地理实体“欧洲”。
1517年，马丁·路德向罗马天主教会宣战，教义冲突取代了共同信仰。人们发现了新世界，也重新发现了欧洲。
1648年之后，统一基督教世界的理念瓦解，欧洲成了一张可以显示裂痕的地图，一种划分政治、经济和社会碎片的方式。在失序与重建中，近代欧洲渐渐成形。

In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund--right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street.
By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the U.S. Department of Justice continued its investigation.
BILLION DOLLAR WHALE has joined the ranks of Liar's Poker, Den of Thieves, and Bad Blood as a classic harrowing parable of hubris and greed in the financial world.

通过“地中海史诗三部曲”（《1453》《海洋帝国》《财富之城》），《纽约时报》畅销书作家罗杰•克劳利确立了自己的地位：他是我们这一代研究欧洲伟大航海帝国的卓越历史学家，也是十字军东征之后东西方冲突领域的专家。在《征服者》中，克劳利讲述了葡萄牙崛起的史诗故事。由于莫大的勇气和它的探险家们高超的航海技能——这种战术优势在当时是任何一个国家都无法比拟的——这个贫穷的小国在一个世纪里主宰了海上霸权。葡萄牙发现通往印度的新航道、对抗穆斯林统治者的帝国主义征服战争和对香料贸易的垄断，将永久性地扰乱地中海，并建立第一个全球经济体。
克劳利依赖书信与目击者证词来叙述蕞尔小国葡萄牙飞速而惊心动魄的崛起。《征服者》展现了葡萄牙帝国全副的光辉灿烂和凶狠残酷，将雄心勃勃而狂热奋进的阿维斯王朝的人物们描摹得栩栩如生。“幸运的”曼努埃尔一世国王、“完美君王”若昂二世、四处劫掠的总督阿方索•德•阿尔布开克和探险家瓦斯科•达伽马这些人物玩弄着他们个人的野心和帝国的公共目标，为了追寻全球的财富，往往要蒙受惨重损失。葡萄牙崛起的故事的另一个核心是，它努力要消灭伊斯兰文化，在印度洋建立一个基督教帝国。为了寻找神话中的基督教君主祭司王约翰，葡萄牙探险家深入非洲腹地；他们还残酷无情地攻打印度的港口城市，力图垄断贸易。
绕过非洲之角去往印度的航道的发现，是航海史上的伟大突破，但也预示着世界秩序被彻底打乱。在随后一个世纪里，没有一个欧洲帝国比葡萄牙更野心勃勃，没有一位君主比葡萄牙列王更掠夺成性。在这过程中，他们创建了第一个远程的航海帝国，释放出了如今塑造我们世界的全球化力量。在克劳利笔下，葡萄牙帝国的完整故事及其野心造成的人道代价，终于得到了讲述。
绝妙……克劳利的解读既精到又公正。
——《基督教箴言报》
栩栩如生地讲述了葡萄牙探险家的生活……对喜欢航海故事的人来说，再好不过。
——《出版商周刊》
在扣人心弦的叙述中，克劳利记载了葡萄牙从一个“穷困、边缘的”国家崛起成为欧洲强国的可怕、凶残的历史，葡萄牙与西班牙和威尼斯竞争，争夺香料贸易。
——《科克斯书评》
克劳利之前著作的读者对这个关于海战、陆战和海难的刺激故事一定不会失望。克劳利很好地为葡萄牙的重要性做了辩护，它建立了第一个全球帝国。
——《每日电讯报》
快节奏的、可读性极强的叙述史，涉及迪亚士和达伽马的航行、阿尔梅达和阿尔布开克的战役与征服……克劳利对事件的详细还原建立在对编年史家如巴罗斯和科雷亚的作品的细读之上，他们的作品是用骑士编年史的传统来写的。
——《今日历史》
在他之前的关于十五六世纪基督徒和奥斯曼帝国争夺地中海的研究里，克劳利已经表现出一种罕见的才华，即将令人手不释卷的叙述与细致到位的学术研究结合起来，同时还能将人性与地缘政治平衡。在本书里，这种才华表现得淋漓尽致。他讲述的故事惊心动魄，但并不是每一位历史学家都能把这个故事讲得这么精彩。
——迈克尔•普罗杰，《金融时报》

本书获誉
《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书（Bestselling book of Sunday Times ）
英国亚马逊·英国海军全史畅销书（The bestselling complete history of the British Navy）
Wilson enviably combines a gift for rattling narrative with the lucid expositions of shifting laws, ideas and arguments.
-Boyd Tonkin, THE INDEPENDENT
威尔逊的笔力令人艳羡，他能笔调迅捷地穿梭于权威论述、观念和论据，既引人入胜又纲举目张。
——博伊德•托金，《独立报》
Empire of the Deep by Ben Wilson is an engaging history of the British navy from King Alfred to the Thames pageant at last year's Diamond Jubilee.
-CHOICE MAGAZINE
本•威尔逊的《深蓝帝国》书写了从阿尔弗雷德国王到伊丽莎白女王登基60周年庆典之间引人入胜的故事。
——《选择杂志》
Wonderfully stirring. The tale Wilson has to tell is so exciting, and the bravura with which he recounts it is so infectious, that his case becomes irresistible.
-David McKie, THE GUARDIAN
文气激荡，摄人心魄。此书所述之史激情满溢，威尔逊讲史感染力十足，他的著作有一股无可阻挡的魅力。
——大卫•麦凯，《卫报》
Wilson has a flair amounting almost to genius.
-Hilary Spurling, THE OBSERVER
威尔逊有着天才般卓绝的洞察力。
——希拉里•斯伯林，《观察家报》
Wilson’s ability to tackle great issues…with such assurance and perception suggests that he is a rising star.
- Max Hastings, SUNDAY TIMES
威尔逊讲述大事件的能力……既严谨信实又精辟洞达，他是冉冉上升的新星。
——马克斯•黑斯廷斯，《星期日泰晤士报》
长久以来，英国只是处于欧洲边缘的三流海洋国家，其岛屿四周的海面上全无法纪可言，各种灾厄接踵而至。然而，就是这样一个毫不起眼的岛国，在其发展的过程中，屡次战胜来自四面八方的海上威胁。特拉法尔加海战之后，英国稳坐海洋霸主之位，成为统治世界海洋的强大贸易帝国。最终，它在20世纪丧失这一霸权，其海洋帝国的史诗画上了句点。
《深蓝帝国》讲述了从阿尔弗雷德大帝到伊丽莎白女王登基60周年庆典之间的英国海军全史，同时，它也是一部英国文化史和帝国史。

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《纽约时报书评》2015年100本好书之一
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全球售出多国版权，已被翻译为日语、韩语、法语、德语等23种语言，出版3年来英国、美 国亚马逊古罗马史分类长期排名第一，刘津瑜教授撰写万字长序导读
◎ 编辑推荐
☆ 世界最著名古典学者之一集50多年工作成果写成的打破传统叙述的罗马通史
☆ 吸收考古学、钱币学、铭文学等多个研究领域最新研究，语言幽默生动，全方位、多层面、多角度审视罗马历史与生活
◎ 内容简介
作为一个经历了王制、共和制、帝制三种政体并持续存在超过千年的国家，古罗马的历史始终吸引着世人的思考和研究。
本书是一位世界一流古典学家凝聚了50多年的工作成果写成的一部全新的罗马史。作者选取罗马的政治枢纽“罗马元老院与人民”（SPQR）为切入点，巧妙而深刻地以公元前63年西塞罗对垒喀提林的事件开篇，充满热情地向读者讲述了罗马的故事。书中不仅探讨了罗马如何从意大利中部一个无足轻重的小村落成长为疆域横跨三大洲的帝国，还揭示了罗马人是如何看待自己和自己取得的成就的。作者始终同时从外部视角和内部视角描述罗马历史的各个阶段。同时，书中还渗透着强烈的现实关怀，在作者讨论罗马的军事扩张、民主、移民、宗教冲突、社会流动、公民权和剥削等问题时，我们时时都会看到今日世界的影子，从而明白古罗马对我们为何仍然是重要的。
全书框架宏大，却充满了生动的细节，虽然大量采用了考古学、钱币学、铭文学的最新成果，却基本不使用专业术语。作者以平实而幽默的笔触讲了许多故事的“另一面”，挑战了传统观点，为读者呈现了一个虽然仍有许多未解之谜却生动迷人的罗马。
◎ 媒体推荐
情节紧凑，令人振奋，心思敏锐，大胆持疑。
—— 布莱恩·阿普尔亚德，《星期日泰晤士报》
非常吸引人……非常愉快的阅读感受，同时兼具学术性。
—— 娜塔莉·海恩斯，《观察者报》
在为罗马为何能够如此惊人地扩张这个问题提供连贯的答案的同时，使一部600 多页讨论这样的话题的书始终充满能量是非常雄心勃勃的。 比尔德获得了极大的成功……书中充满见解，始终让人愉悦……比尔德专注于细节，再加上她极为出色的幽默感，这使《罗马元老院与人民》从始至终都吸引着读者。
——《星期日泰晤士报》
极富开创性……令人振奋……革命性的全新古代史写法。
—— 托马斯·霍奇金森，《观察者报》
这本书是一处宝藏，既是一本迷人的读物，也是一本很好的参考书，对于那个对今天的我们仍有很大指导意义的古代世界，澄清了我们由于懒惰而产生的误解。
——《先驱报》
在《罗马元老院与人民》这部美妙的简史中，比尔德以一种轻快而无比清晰的笔触解开了这座城市取得成功的秘密，无可媲美。
—— 费迪南德·芒特，《纽约时报书评》
一部杰出的新编年史……比尔德是一位步履稳健的向导，带领读者穿过那些晦涩难解的材料，换了别人，这本书可能就会变得单调乏味。在处理罗马城早期的历史时，她把事实从神话中筛分了出来，通过说明罗马人自己如何为了短期的政治目的而编造出传奇性的开端，她使学术讨论变得生动活泼，并且拓展了讨论的深度……通俗历史写作的典范，引人入胜但并不刻意简化，同时具有宏大的框架和私密的细节，使过往的历史栩栩如生。
——《经济学人》
比尔德完成的工作，确切来说，是很少有普及类作者敢于尝试的，是很多大学教授无法胜任的。她传达了在思索那些注定模糊不清的文本和事件时的兴奋感，在这个过程中，她让我们习以为常的观点变得可疑。她这部权威的新罗马史《罗马元老院与人民》也不例外。比尔德向我们揭示，古罗马人与许多个世纪后与权力、公民权、帝国和身份这些问题斗争的人息息相关。
—— 艾米丽·威尔逊，《大西洋月刊》
◎ 名人推荐
比尔德准确而清晰地讲述了这个故事，充满激情，不使用专业术语……《罗马元老院与人民》讲了一个令人毛骨悚然的成功者的故事，但是用美妙的天赋讲出来的。
—— 格雷格‧伍尔夫，伦敦大学高级研究院古典研究所主任
虽然比尔德自己说《罗马元老院与人民》是她经过50年的训练和研究的成果，但她并不炫耀学问。当她带领我们穿过罗马人民曾经留下印记的妓院、酒肆和陋巷时，我们首先能够感受到她自己乐在其中。
—— 詹姆斯‧罗姆，巴德学院古典学教授
在比尔德结束她的故事时，她不仅探索了古代时期、共和时期和帝国时期的罗马，以及它最终掌控了的东部和西部省份……她轻松而熟练地运用了考古学、钱币学和文献学的成果，还使用了大量刻在石头上或写在纸草上的书面文献。
—— G. W. 鲍尔索克，希腊、罗马、近东历史和文化研究权威
不是所有的罗马史学家都能如比尔德一样叙事如此生动风趣、层次丰富，将复杂的问题以极易接受的方式传达给读者。更不是所有的罗马史学家都能将社会各个层面有效地编织到叙述中。我们面前这部著作的作者是一位难以简单归类的作者，这部著作本身也迥异于目前数量众多的通史性罗马史著作。
—— 刘津瑜，德堡大学古典学教授

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