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This book is the representative work of Professor Harriet D. S. Mackenzie. It relatively objectively explains Switzerland's strategic position as a country at the crossroads of Europe and the great power games, struggles and wars it has caused. It also systematically analyzes Switzerland's influence on the rise and fall of European powers. Why was Switzerland "hidden" in the Alps while exerting a decisive influence on the geopolitical pattern of Europe in the Middle Ages and modern times? Why did Swiss mercenaries become a "hot" brand in the Middle Ages? Why was Switzerland's independence and unity the result of a compromise between Austria and France? Why was Switzerland unable to avoid the pain of war as it moved towards modern times? How was Switzerland's neutral status established and guaranteed? This book provides detailed answers.

The book begins with the early history of the Zulu Kingdom and the Natal Colony, telling the external wars and military system of Zulu King Shaka, the brutal rule of Shaka's brother Dingang after usurping the throne, and his conflict with the Boers. It then outlines the laws, regulations, customs, and religion of the Zulu people, reveals the triggers for the outbreak of the Zulu War, and shows the current situation before the outbreak of the Zulu War. It then details the Zulu King Se Chiwayo's expansion policy led to the outbreak of war with the British, the Battle of Isandlwana, the Defense of Locke Ferry, the Battle of Ekwe, the Battle of Injezan, the Battle of Zlobane Mountain, the Battle of Kambula, the Great Victory of Intombe, the Battle of Gianhelovo, the Battle of Ulundi, the capture of Cetshwayo and other major historical events; it deeply analyzes the dialectical relationship between living space, the law of the jungle and the process of southern African civilization.

This book is about an era of great success and glory in Japanese history, an era when heroes are vying for the throne and moving toward unification, and an era that lays the foundation for Japan's transformation into modernity. The Azuchi period and the Momoyama period are closely related and complement each other. The former loses something, the latter gains something. The Azuchi era was an era of exploration, trial and error, and the Momoyama era was an era of error correction and success. The stage of activities in the Azuchi period was concentrated in Kinai, Tokai, Higashiyama, Sanin, and Sanyo. The stage of activities in the Momoyama period expanded to the whole of Japan and as far away as Korea, China, and the Nanyang Islands. In other words, the Azuchi period has local characteristics, and the Momoyama period has local characteristics. How does power transfer from top to bottom, from generals to leaders, from leaders to family chiefs, and from family chiefs to their cronies? What is the relationship between the emergence of the phenomenon of "lower and higher" and the formation of Japan's troubled times? How does social disorder break down "mobility barriers" and lead to the emergence of heroes in large numbers? What role did Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi play in Japan's transition from division to reunification, and from decline to revival? This book will answer it in detail.

"Europe's Darkest Hour (1878-1923): Why the First World War broke out and how to rebuild after the war" is the representative work of Robert Balmain Mowert, a famous European diplomatic historian and an important founder of modern diplomatic history. It begins with the signing of the Treaty of Berlin in 1878 and ends with the Ruhr Crisis in 1923. It tells in detail the important events in the 45-year history of Europe, and provides an in-depth interpretation of the Balkan crisis, "World War I", the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations, and the failed post-war reconstruction of Europe. With deep emotions and rational thinking, the author depicts the greedy expansion of European powers and their tendency to go to war. The victorious countries carried out humiliating and bone-crushing slaughter on the defeated countries. After the war, the European powers lost their rationality and fell into madness, thus plunging Europe into the darkest moments of viciousness.

This book is a companion volume to "The History of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648): The Decline of the Habsburg Family, the Establishment of the Continental Hegemony of the Kingdom of France and the Establishment of the "Westphalian System"". It tells the entire story of the occurrence, development, climax, reversal, and end of the major historical event that changed the direction of England's history - the Puritan Revolution. Cheng, gave a relatively in-depth interpretation of the transmission mechanism that triggered the Puritan Revolution in England during the Thirty Years' War, and comprehensively described major historical events such as the struggle for power between the royal family and Parliament, the intensification of conflicts between the royal family and Parliament, the outbreak of war between the royal family and Parliament, the collapse of the royal power and the period of the Lord Protector, the compromise between Parliament and the royal family, the restoration of royal power, the era of Charles II and the Glorious Revolution.

This book cites a large number of works fragments, historical materials, scholar comments, etc. To place Chinese literature in a broad social and cultural background. It tells the vast Chinese literature and the development context of Chinese literature in the eyes of Westerners. It introduces in detail the important works and achievements of famous Chinese writers in the past dynasties, and profoundly reveals the relationship between cultural context and national context, and cultural destiny and national destiny.

This book tells the entire process of the Kamakura shogunate from its rise to its decline. How did Minamoto Yoritomo create the shogunate and establish the samurai regime in Kamakura? Why was the Kamakura shogunate the inevitable result of the confrontation between samurai politics and public politics? Why did Japan have the strange historical phenomenon of real power returning to the shogunate and the emperor becoming a king? How did the Kamakura period transform from a shogun dictatorship to a collegial system? Why did the imperial family system collapse? This book will explain it in depth.

This book tells the political situation in the Russian Empire and Europe from 1741 to 1762. Peter III came to Russia from the age of fourteen when he was designated as the heir by his aunt Tsar Elizabeth Petrovna to being overthrown by his wife Catherine the Great in 1762. What kind of legendary life did he experience in his short life of thirty-four years? What significant impact did his becoming Tsar have on the Seven Years' War? How did Tsar Peter III disrupt European politics? Why did his wife stage a coup to depose him? In his short reign of more than 180 days, what impact did the various bills passed have on the church, the people at the bottom and the nobility? Why did Peter III die? What indispensable preparations did the reign of Peter III make for the coming of the era of Catherine the Great? This book will answer it in detail.

This book is the most important work in the academic career of Professor James Wycliffe Headham-Morley, a supporter of Arnold Joseph Toynbee. It describes in detail Otto von Bismarck's role in the establishment of the German Empire, his dexterous political skills, diverse diplomatic strategies, and determined military struggle. It focused on analyzing the stages, conditions, strategies and complexity of German unification, and deeply excavated Otto von Bismarck's political thinking and interest considerations of adhering to the "iron-blood policy" but never the iron-blood policy, winning the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War, but never dismembering Austria and France.

This book is an important work for Westerners to observe and study the Taiping Revolution. It is an important material that contemporary people cannot avoid when studying the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. This book relies on first-hand information such as the experiences of missionaries who traveled in China at that time and the records of Western officials in China. It shows the entire process of the outbreak, rise and development of the Taiping Revolution in an all-round, multi-layered and wide-angle manner.

This book details the decline of the Tokugawa shogunate in the last years, the development of overseas situations and its impact on Japan, the changes in the Tokugawa shogunate's foreign policy and coastal defense theory, the U. S. Naval general's mission to Japan, the Russian envoy's mission to Japan, the conclusion of a treaty of friendship and trade, and the awakening of the Tokugawa shogunate. , American Minister Townsend Harris arrived in Japan, the issue of the successor of the general who conquered the barbarians, the negotiations between the imperial court and the shogunate, Naoki Ii's administration, Ansei Prison, the Sakurada Gate Incident and other important contents, which profoundly demonstrated the history of internal and external troubles and social turmoil in the late Tokugawa shogunate.

This book systematically analyzes the dramatic changes in Europe over the past century from the perspective of diplomatic history. What was the political landscape of Europe after the second abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte and the fall of his empire? Under what background was the Congress of Vienna held? How did the great powers maintain the balance of power in Europe? Why was the European political trend after the Congress of Vienna dominated by the "Holy Alliance" and the "Quadruple Alliance"? How did Spain's American colonies become independent? What was the purpose of the United States issuing the Monroe Declaration? When did nationalism replace orthodoxy? How did the Crimean War break out? How did European diplomats solve the Italian problem? How did Prussia rise? How was the German Empire unified? What role did the unification of Italy and Germany play in the formation of an armed peace situation in Europe? Why is the establishment of the German Empire the most important political event in Europe in the 19th century? What is the reason for the reappearance of the Eastern Question? What were the differences between the two Balkan Wars? Why is imperialism the root cause of the outbreak of World War I? This book will explain it in depth.

This book is one of the major works of Professor Marcus Lee Hansen, a famous immigration history expert, and won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for History. Unlike most experts on the history of immigration, Professor Marcus Lee Hansen studies immigration from a European rather than an American standpoint: How did the intertwining of factors such as changes in farming and land ownership, the rise of industry, natural disasters, political oppression, religious discrimination, and the coercive policies of immigration agencies lead to the formation of immigration waves? What possibilities does the development of science and technology provide for the formation of immigration waves? Why did people at that time spend everything they had in order to design a sailing route? As the paradise that people yearn for, why is there a low tide of immigration in the United States? Why does the U. S. Government sometimes actively promote and sometimes deliberately hinder immigration? In short, this book reproduces the magnificent history of civilian immigrants from major European countries to the United States from the 17th to the 19th century in an epic style.

This book takes the great struggle of Greece to resist the rule of the Ottoman Empire and strive for national independence as the main line, and the great powers' struggle for the Balkan Peninsula as the background. It tells the complex international situation, diplomatic games, and military struggles from 1821 to 1833. It is not only a history of the Greek War of Independence, but also a history of the struggle for hegemony in the Balkans. It profoundly reveals the inevitable relationship between the joint intervention of the great powers in the Greek War of Independence and the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

This book tells the internal history, diplomatic history, economic history, and expansion history of the British Empire in the era of Queen Victoria of the Hanoverian Dynasty. It systematically interprets the inevitable relationship between the succession rules of the Hanoverian Dynasty and the arrival of the Victorian era, the decision-making mechanism of the British government under the decentralized system of monarch and parliament, the pros and cons of diversified royal marriages, the 1848 Revolution, the Irish Independence Movement, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the Boer War and other major events.

This book tells the history of the Goths from barbarians to royalty, from backwardness to civilization, and from strength to decline. What is the relationship between the Goths and the Germans? How did the Goths evolve into the Ostrogoths and Visigoths? What is the realistic logic between barbarian invasions and the decline and division of the Roman Empire? How did the Ostrogoths found their country? How did Emperor Theodoric achieve his great ambitions? Why did the Ostrogothic Kingdom decline rapidly after Emperor Theodoric? How did the Visigoths attack Italy, fight in Gaul, conquer Spain, and establish the Visigothic Kingdom? Why did the Visigothic Kingdom decline for thirty years? How did the Saracen invasion lead to the demise of the Visigothic Kingdom? This book will explain it in depth.

This book is the representative work of Professor Charles Ohman, President of the Royal Historical Society. After more than a hundred years of war, Edward III's dream of unifying England and France and establishing a trans-oceanic power was finally shattered, and the French nation ushered in the dawn of unity and rejuvenation. What caused the war? Was Edward III's claim to the French throne legitimate? How did the French territory of England encircle the Kingdom of France, the internal contradictions in the Kingdom of France weaken its resistance to the enemy, and the military command skills of Edward the Black Prince, so that the French suffered the disaster and humiliation of having their homeland ravaged and their king captured? How did the Black Death force a halt to the intense war between Britain and France? Why did the death of Richard II pave the way for the outbreak of the Wars of the Roses? How did Henry V and Henry VI's continued war against France push the Kingdom of France to the edge of the kingdom? How did Joan of Arc save the Kingdom of France? England fell into the abyss of the War of the Roses. How did the French take the opportunity to seize the French territories in England? This book will provide an in-depth explanation.

This book takes Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare from March 1917 to August 1918 as a clue. It mainly tells the important role played by the U. S. Navy in the German Navy's attempt to blockade British ports and force Britain to withdraw from the war. It reveals the maritime combat situation of European countries and the United States in the late World War I, as well as the intricate interest relationships between various countries. The book introduces in detail the naval warfare strategies adopted by Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries, and analyzes the process and reasons why the powerful German navy failed step by step.

In European history, Maria Theresa is a female monarch as famous as Queen Isabella I of Castile, Catherine de' Medici, the "Uncrowned King" of France, Queen Elizabeth I of England, and Tsar Catherine the Great of Russia. "Maria Theresa: A History of the Resurgence of the Habsburg Dynasty" tells the magnificent history of the Habsburg Dynasty's efforts to save the nation and realize the revival under the leadership of Maria Theresa. Why did Maria Theresa's accession to the throne trigger the War of Austrian Succession? How did Maria Theresa bring the Habsburg dynasty back from the brink of destruction? How did the outcome of the War of the Austrian Succession adjust the balance of power on the European continent? How did Maria Theresa use her superb diplomatic skills to take advantage of the Seven Years' War to revive the Habsburg dynasty? How did Maria Theresa follow the trend of the times, implement enlightened autocracy internally, and promote Austria's economic and cultural prosperity? This book will answer it in detail.

This book is the representative work of Charles Harding Fells, professor of modern history at Oxford University. It systematically interprets the inevitable relationship between the Stuart dynasty's politics, religious systems and foreign wars and the outbreak of the Puritan Revolution. Oliver Cromwell's important role in the Puritan Revolution from its trough to its climax, and the English Civil War The previous battles between the Royalist Army and the Parliamentary Army, the fall of the Stuart dynasty, the execution of Charles I and the realistic logic of the establishment of Puritan rule in England, the internal affairs and diplomacy of England during the period when Oliver Cromwell served as Lord Protector, and the great influence of Oliver Cromwell on England's national destiny and national destiny.

This book tells the story of the magnificent fighting life of King Richard I of England. After becoming king, he spent almost all of his time fighting in the north and south. He participated in many wars, including the Crusades. In all the wars, he showed extraordinary commanding skills and established great military exploits. Finally, he died while attacking France. Fight for life and die well.

This book has a total of twenty-one chapters, arranged in chronological order, with Shakespeare's poetry creation and drama creation as the main line, interspersed with details such as his life experience, marriage, patron, real life, later evaluations, and related research in various countries, giving a detailed introduction to Shakespeare's short but outstanding life. In addition to the main text, there are ten appendices, which provide a large amount of precious historical materials for the biography and further highlight the academic value of the entire work. Why did Shakespeare abandon his wife and children in his early years, leave his hometown and come to London to work hard? What are the unspeakable difficulties? In what context were Shakespeare's plays, such as "Love in Love" and "The Merchant of Venice", written? What content in the play reflects Shakespeare's own hometown and personal life? What was Shakespeare's relationship with theater colleagues such as Ben Johnson and the troupe of children's actors? What was the attitude of the royal families of Elizabeth I and James I towards Shakespeare's plays? What are the hidden secrets behind the publication of the historic First Folio of Shakespeare's plays? Which existing portraits of Shakespeare can stand the test of history? What questions and debates exist in the academic community about Shakespeare's true identity? What are the paradoxes in Shakespeare's sonnets? This book will answer these questions one by one that have rarely been touched upon by previous authors.

This book details the failure of the reform of the Tokugawa shogunate, the rise of the emperor and the rebellion of the barbarians in Japan, the rise of the Tokugawa movement, the revolt of the daimyo, the restoration of the imperial government, the return of the Tokugawa shogunate's last shogunate, the Boshin War, the pro-government of the Meiji Emperor and other major historical events. It provides a profound interpretation of the internal driving forces and external interference forces of the Japanese ruling class's top-down reform in order to get rid of the national crisis.

This book brings together all the key periods recorded in contemporary history books. Each page is an independent "cheat sheet", summarized in a small page, allowing readers to understand history efficiently. Through concise and vivid words and pictures, this book presents every representative event, character and turning point, from the "Boston Tea Party", "Cold War Era" and "European Study Tour" to the "Great Depression", "Industrial Revolution" and "Russian Revolution", etc., Taking you through the dynasty changes in the long history. This kind of learning guide with pictures and texts can make the process of interpreting history easier and more interesting. It is the best choice for readers who need relevant knowledge and have limited time. By reading this book, you will gain knowledge as you wish and at the same time explore more unknown areas. Through the combination of pictures and texts, this book strives to cultivate young people's interest in mathematics and popularize knowledge. In the book, every knowledge point, theory or term is explained in concise and clear words and graphics, making the knowledge interesting and easy to understand, and readers can master it immediately in a very short time.

At the throne handover ceremony in 1555, Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Philip II, the future King of Spain, and William, Prince of Orange, the founding father of the Dutch Republic, these figures who stirred up the storm for nearly a hundred years gathered together. Surrounding them are Queen Bloody Mary and Elizabeth I of England, the beheaded Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland, and many princes of Germany and France... "Netherlands" means "Lowlands", which roughly includes today's Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and northeastern France. From the 11th to the 14th century, the Netherlands gradually formed numerous scattered principalities, counties and bishoprics, which were gradually unified under the rule of the Burgundian and Habsburg families. In 1568, seventeen provinces of the Netherlands rebelled against the rule of the Spanish Empire. In 1581, the seven northern provinces of the Netherlands deposed Philip II, and then formally established the Dutch Republic in 1588. Finally, in 1648, they took advantage of the Thirty Years' War to become completely independent from Spanish rule - thus the world's first capitalist country was born. Subsequently, the newly born Dutch Republic rose rapidly and became the economic center of Europe in just 50 years; the prosperous Amsterdam established the first modern bank and stock exchange, established a modern financial system, and became the world's financial center. At the same time, the developed shipbuilding industry supported the Netherlands' active overseas trade. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Netherlands created the "Tulip Myth" on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and became the "first maritime power" at that time. From a small marginal country suffering from Spanish oppression to a "sea coachman" traveling across the ocean, developed commercial capital and rapid expansion of sea power jointly wrote the history of the rise of the Dutch maritime empire. The rise and fall of this period of history is worth pondering. This book introduces the history of the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands in a popular way, vividly describing the main historical figures at that time, the decisive battles, the main turning points of the war, and the international situation around the Netherlands. It peels off the cocoons and shows readers the origin, evolution and results of the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands.

When seeing Notre Dame de Paris in flames, people all over the world will feel a deep sense of sadness. Why does Notre Dame de Paris move people in different countries and languages? What makes Notre Dame the soul of a nation and a symbol of human achievement? In response to a series of questions, the author takes us back to various defining moments in Notre Dame's history, starting with the night of the fire. Starting with the laying of the cornerstone in 1163, Henry IV's feud with Catholicism; Napoleon's coronation; Victor Hugo's campaign to preserve the cathedral in the 19th century; Baron Haussmann's Paris reconstruction plan; the classic film "Notre Dame de Paris"; de Gaulle's Thanksgiving celebration, and more. There has been a culture war between the cautious and the bold, the sincere and the opportunists, the historians and the radicals, the religious and the secular. These are all vividly reflected in the book.

The book takes the titles of thirty fairy tales and novels as its theme, raising the puzzling questions hidden in them, arousing readers' curiosity, and focusing on exploring the historical background of the writing period of classic masterpieces. This book interprets the wonderful world history from the perspective of fairy tales and classics. The works involved include European classical fairy tales such as "Snow White" and "Little Red Riding Hood", as well as literary masterpieces and fantasy novels such as "Les Misérables", "Education of Love" and the "Harry Potter" series. It explains in simple terms and explores the hidden world history. Disney and Ghibli have also adapted these stories. The unfinished stories and the unfinished true history in the adapted movies can be found by reading this book.

General History of China, one book to understand Chinese history and culture. Carefully selected and paired with 130 precious historical paintings and pictures of cultural relics, the unique style structure and content arrangement demonstrate Lu Simian's academic pursuit as a historian: "Search for past facts and explain them to explain the current society, so as to speculate on the future and show us the way forward." A brief history of the world, a direct and clear world history like a classic short story. Carefully selected with nearly 100 precious historical illustrations and photos, you can explore the history of the world in one night. By stripping away the cocoons, the long and complicated history is simplified and refined, and the world history picture is reproduced concisely, clearly and in a clear context. During the Old Regime and the Revolution, people seemed to love freedom, but in fact they just hated their masters. More than 60 precious historical illustrations are carefully selected to provide an in-depth analysis of the gains, losses, and lessons of the French Revolution. Tocqueville's masterpiece allows the world to view the French Revolution more rationally and openly.

Today, Japan is still the third largest economy in the world, but when the outside world mentions it, people are interested in its traditional art, food, fashion design, and animation industries. Regarding Japan's political and economic institutions, they are more concerned about the incompetence of the government, the economic downturn, and the collapse of the myth of "Japan's No. 1". In order to find the reasons for Japan's troubles, Taggart Murphy turned his attention to the political and economic history starting from the Heian period. The yoke of Japan was forged as early as 1603 when the Tokugawa shogunate implemented the seclusion policy. The shogunate's obsession with order and stability directly injected the concept of hierarchy into the militarized state capitalist system established by the Meiji Restoration. It not only dragged the world into the quagmire of war, but also burdened modern Japan with heavy historical debts. Japan, which was committed to rapid economic development after the war, has never been freed from this historical shackles. Although Japan once won overseas markets with its labor system, technology and assets, in the face of new products and service models brought by the Internet, Japanese companies that clung to tradition began to stagnate. Lies about the construction of national myths and war narratives, as well as the anti-foreign sentiment encouraged by the Abe administration, have also put new shackles on Japan. The author reviews the history of Japan's political construction by the Western "Japanese Knowledge School" since the 1970s, coupled with his own experience of Japanese culture and the marginalized classes of Japanese society, trying to find a Japan that is slowly moving forward in shackles, but full of vitality.

The protagonists of this book are the ignition of civilization and the cornerstones of mathematics, astronomy and medicine - Euclid's "Elements", Ptolemy's "Almagest" and the medical works of the famous ancient Greek doctor Galen. They were created in distant antiquity. After dozens of generations of copying, translation, dissemination and relay in seven cities during the long Middle Ages, they survived until the invention of printing. Since then, they have flourished, promoted the birth of modern science, and are now known as classics. Due to the powerful force majeure, the fire is almost extinguished, and human civilization seems to be plunged into darkness forever. However, thanks to the protection of all parties, the key bridge role played by Arab scholars, and the unremitting efforts of booksellers and printers, the classics that had been hanging by a thread for many times were able to survive and emerge from the siege. This book records the thrilling journey of how the initial achievements of human civilization were passed down from generation to generation across the many obstacles of region, belief, war, and technology.

Focus on "evolution", rectify the source and eliminate stereotypes. The author is not simply obsessed with historical details, but through key clues, Portugal, a strange ancient European country, a place where mountains and seas meet, is different from neighboring Spain. What kind of tortuous history does Portugal have? The author tells you a previously unknown Portugal through geographical environment analysis and historical events. It has warmth and attitude and is unmatched by other brief histories of chronological events on the market. Most national histories of Europe only stop at piling up and listing chronological events. This book is the product of the author's personal travels in Portugal. The author has invested deep feelings and care in it. He not only pays attention to the history of Italy, but also pays attention to the present and future of Portugal. The work of a master of international history: The author Jeremy Black is a professor of history at the University of Exeter, UK, and a doctorate of Oxford University. He has written more than 100 historical best-sellers and has been hailed by the British media as "the most prolific historian of this era." This book is the work of the author who has accumulated many years of study and travel, and presents the author's most profound insights into the history of the Iberian Peninsula and even the history of Europe.

The thickness of the original work is 10%, but the essence is 100% presented! It condenses the three essences of the original work - each chapter contains dramatic turning points, each chapter has unique analysis, and every page is filled with beautiful writing! In 1787, Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was published. Over the past two hundred years, "The History of Decline and Decline" has become a supreme classic with its three essences: 1. A summary of the great changes in history; 2. An incisive and unique analysis; 3. Beautiful writing. It is these three essences that make it still the supreme classic in the field of literature and history. However, the original work of 5 million words has deterred many readers. To this end, the Essence Edition condenses twelve original works, retaining the three essences of the original works at one-tenth the thickness.

In the history of mankind, there are not only various evil acts such as invasion, massacre, and colonization, but also touching stories that shine with the glory of rescue, mutual assistance, and inheritance. In 1813, German Jews joined the army to jointly resist Napoleon's invasion. Just four years later, "anti-Semitic riots" broke out across Germany, and countless Jews were killed and displaced. In 1876, India suffered a drought. The British colonial government deliberately obstructed disaster relief operations and transferred local Indian officials who were "too sympathetic", resulting in 6 million to 10 million people. Death; in 1940, diplomats from many countries resisted the huge pressure of Nazi Germany and provided visas for Jews to enter their countries, saving the lives of thousands of Jews... The mysterious and anonymous Spanish writer Cesar Arabtan tells each of these frightening stories in a calm and restrained style, vividly recreating the best and darkest moments in history, allowing us to understand human nature more thoroughly. Internationally renowned illustrator Alexandra Jacosta illustrated some of the historical figures and events featured in the book, adding more color to Cewang's fascinating story.

The history of civilization in ancient Britain can be traced back thousands of years. Since the beginning of its discovery, the British Isles has attracted migration from various ethnic groups. Before the Romans, there were about nine waves of immigrants who crossed the sea to reach the British Isles. In the mid-1st century AD, the Romans occupied most of the island of Britain and established the province of Britannia. In 410 AD, the barbarians invaded and the Roman army withdrew from Britain. The Anglo-Saxons from Germany immigrated here and established many kingdoms. Since then, they have continued to conquer. In 871 AD, three of the four kingdoms in England were occupied by the Vikings. This was a group of invaders from Scandinavia. They were brutal, rude and invincible, bringing panic to all European countries in the early Middle Ages. At this time, the future of the remaining kingdom of Wessex was already very slim. However, in less than 10 years, Alfred - the only great emperor in English history - expelled the Vikings from half of England, and his descendants completed the unification of England in the following years. It was also during this period that Alfred promulgated England's first national code of law, established an education system, and built many cities. England began to take shape as a nation-state.

This book traces the origin of this disaster through the famous Battle of Hastings in 1066: from Æthelred II to Swayne the Bearded and then to Canute the Great, due to repeated invasions by the Vikings, the throne of England has always been in a state of contention. However, Edward the Confessor died without heirs, triggering a war for the throne among the Anglo-Saxons, Norwegians, and Normans. The result was a bloody end to the House of Wessex at Hastings by Duke William of Normandy, bringing about the Norman Conquest. This book also focuses on the various actions of the Normans, as outsiders, on the British soil after the change of dynasty and the impact they had on later generations, explaining how they permanently changed the history and language of England.

"The Roman Senate and the People: A History of Ancient Rome" is a brand-new history of Rome written by a world-class classicist who condensed more than 50 years of work. The author chooses the "Senate and People of Rome" (SPQR), the political hub of Rome, as the starting point. He cleverly and profoundly begins with the incident of Cicero versus Catiline in 63 BC, and passionately tells the story of Rome to readers. "Pompei: The Life and Death of a Roman City" The famous British classicist Mary Beard, author of the book, walked onto the streets of Pompeii. Like a tour guide, she led us to visit this city that was frozen in time and space by the ash of Vesuvius in the early Roman Empire. From houses, occupations, government, food and wine to sex, as well as bathing, entertainment and religion, all aspects of urban life at that time are reproduced from the outside to the inside in clear layers. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of the Empire Kyle Harper combines a grand historical narrative with the most cutting-edge climate science and genetic research to show that the fate of the Roman Empire was determined not only by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians, but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, unstable climate, and deadly viruses and bacteria. He recounts the story from the height of the Roman Empire in the second century to the fragmentation of the Byzantine Empire in the seventh century. Harper describes how the Romans recovered under enormous environmental pressures and faced crises again, until they could no longer withstand the blows of the "Little Ice Age" and recurring plague outbreaks.

This book is He Bingsong's lecture notes. It not only describes and discusses the politics, economy, thought and art of various European countries in the Middle Ages, but also focuses on the study of figures who played an important role in human activities during this historical period.

This book is a work that studies the historical culture and cultural identity issues of the Dai Miao people in northern Thailand who have historical relations with the Dai people in China. It focuses on the historical background of the formation of the cultural identity of the Dai Miao people in Thailand, the mutual influence of social interaction and cultural identity between the Dai Miao people in Thailand and the Dai people in China in recent years, and the use of this historical and cultural relationship to build a harmonious border in southwest China. This book is based on long-term fieldwork and literature research by the Chinese and Thai authors. It reveals the social and historical background and current situation of the Dai Miao people in northern Thailand, as well as the historical relationship with the Dai people in China. It has great reference value for understanding the history and development status of the cross-border ethnic groups between China and Thailand.

From the perspective of the discipline of economic and social history, this book collects special research papers on the history of European civilization, covering the origins and concepts of European civilization, development and rights, life and customs, conflicts and peace, and has both theoretical exploration and empirical analysis. Western civilization, that is, European civilization in history, is a different civilization from classical civilization. It is true that it drew "inspiration" from classical civilization, but the Germanic-dominated Western European nations, as well as Germanic culture and Christianity filtered through the Middle Ages, undoubtedly played a more important role. Western civilization was born in the Middle Ages, and Europe modernized a few centuries later. However, the basic rules of its civilization were already established in the middle ages.

In this book, Simon Schama uses passionate and superb narrative art to tell the story of many unknown abolitionists and blacks fighting to emancipate slaves before and after the American Revolution. They believe that freedom is a right that belongs to all human beings, regardless of skin color. The abolitionists made impassioned speeches in court for the kidnapped blacks, and led them through bullet-ridden North American battlefields, across the storm-torn Atlantic Ocean, and finally returned to their homeland in Africa, creating a new country in the barbaric and desolate Sierra Leone. The obstruction of slaveholders, the hypocrisy of revolutionaries, the interference of the British government, and even the betrayal of black compatriots, all kinds of difficulties and obstacles could not destroy their determination and courage to pursue and defend freedom.

What happened on the North American continent in the 128 years between Columbus's first voyage in 1492 and the Pilgrims' landing in 1620? While visiting Plymouth Rock, considered by Americans to be "the beginning of it all," Tony Horwitz realizes that he has no clue about this history-nor do most Americans. So he sets out across the continent to rediscover the feverish days when Europeans first came here in search of gold, glory, conversion and youth. Horwitz traces the stories of these brave and frenzied explorers on their epic trek-"The Long Way" is a vivid blend of academic research and modern adventure that brings into view the first forgotten chapters of America's history...

This collection contains Sir Liddell Hart's History of the First World War and Histories of the Second World War. "History of the First World War" is one of the important masterpieces of the world-famous military historian and modern strategy master Liddell Hart. It details the entire process of the First World War and the application of the strategies and tactics of all parties. In 1914, a gunshot in Sarajevo detonated the whole world. The European powers have fully mobilized and devoted their national efforts to this unprecedented cruel and bloody battle. Thousands of miles of barbed wire trenches became a wrestling ground for the will of the great powers. Millions of soldiers are trying to usher in the dawn of a new world order on muddy battlefields littered with debris and rivers of blood. War disasters spread across Asia, Europe and Africa, with gunfire and smoke, old empires disintegrated one after another, and the power structure in Europe also changed. However, the result of this war, which was claimed to be the end of all wars, turned out to be the next larger-scale world war... The Second World War of "History of World War II" The World War is the largest war in human history. No other war can compare to it in terms of the areas affected by the war, the countries directly or indirectly involved, the loss of life and property, etc. Its impact and impact are comprehensive and far-reaching, and deserve our attention and reflection. Among the works on the history of World War II, Liddell Hart's book is undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive works. The author relied on his personal military experience, rich information documents, and interview records of the parties involved, and spent 22 years to complete this masterpiece. This book contains detailed descriptions of the major and minor battles in World War II that lasted for six years. In addition, the author provides a calm and objective analysis and reflection on this period of history. People often say that "history is a mirror." This book can enable readers to learn about the past and understand the present. The truth of history still has a warning significance today.

"History of World War II" The Second World War was the largest war in human history. No other war could compare to the areas affected by the war, the countries directly or indirectly involved, the loss of life and property, etc.; Its impact and impact were comprehensive and far-reaching, and deserve our attention and reflection. Among the works on the history of World War II, Liddell Hart's book is undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive works. The author relied on his personal military experience, rich information documents, and interview records of the parties involved, and spent 22 years to complete this masterpiece. This book contains detailed descriptions of the major and minor battles in World War II that lasted for six years. In addition, the author provides a calm and objective analysis and reflection on this period of history. People often say that "history is a mirror." This book can enable readers to learn about the past and understand the present. The truth of history still has a warning significance today.

Marius Jensen uses the stories of three ordinary characters, Sugita Genpaku, Kuni Kunitake, and Matsumoto Shigeharu, as the main line to analyze how the Japanese re-understood the world in the mid-Tokugawa period, the early Tokugawa period, the early Meiji period, and the postwar Showa period, and traced the ideological and psychological historical roots of the Japanese worldview. Genpaku Sugita gave up traditional Chinese medicine and turned to translating Dutch anatomy works. Kumi Kunitake traveled to the West with the envoys but eventually lost his teaching position because his works were disrespectful to the emperor. Shigeharu Matsumoto, who experienced World War II, was committed to communicating with the world. Behind the three ordinary characters is the transformation of the entire Japan, and the ups and downs are condensed by Jensen into this small book.

Throughout European history, Britain has always played a tangled, complex, and contradictory role. It has invaded other countries and been invaded; it has changed sides and stood aside; it has displayed shameless cynicism and embraced the vaguest idealism. In every century, troops from the British Isles have roamed the continent in pursuit of a variety of goals, not the least of which was the intertwined defense of British parliamentary liberties and "European liberty." Britain also has close dynastic ties with countries such as Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and France. In this bracing and highly readable book, Brendan Sims charts the highs and lows of Britain's encounter with continental Europe from the Dark Ages to the present day. The importance of understanding this history is recounted in the book's final chapter, which also dramatizes the issues surrounding the UK's relationship with the EU and shows how the UK's vote to leave the EU - far more than just a legal or financial issue - raises all sorts of thought-provoking questions about Britain's own vision and how it affects the EU's view of Britain. At a moment when great dangers and great opportunities coexist, "A Thousand Years of British-European History" may reveal Britain's next move.

"Laws and Human Hearts - The Interaction between People and Systems in the Imperial Period" is a popular book for ordinary readers that comprehensively explains the entanglements between people and systems in the imperial period, based on 30 years of historical research by teacher Zhao Dongmei, an expert on Song history from Peking University. This book consists of three parts: institutional history, cultural history, and intensive reading of historical works. The author changes the serious stereotype of institutional narratives, and uses a relaxed and lively way to think about institutional changes, understand the gains and losses of previous institutions, and tell the relationship between the system and people at different levels from national stories, group stories, and individual stories. This book uses an open historical topic and a discussion method full of problem awareness to conduct an in-depth discussion of the historical elements that truly shaped traditional China and influence it to this day, and answers the hidden logic that "history does not always move forward" - in terms of understanding the nature of the imperial court and the relationship between monarchs and ministers, the Yuan Dynasty experienced two major setbacks: From the perspective of the nature of the imperial court, the Chinese tradition will The world is called Jiangshan Sheji, which advocates "one person to rule the world, and not one person to serve the world." However, in the Yuan Dynasty, the world went into the royal private purse - Jiangshan Sheji became the private property of the royal family. From the perspective of the relationship between monarch and ministers, Chinese tradition advocates that "the king envoys his ministers with courtesy, and the ministers serve the king with loyalty." However, in the Yuan Dynasty, ministers were reduced to taking pride in calling themselves slaves - the relationship between monarch and ministers was reduced to a master-slave relationship. From then on, the intensification of tyranny and suspicion continued unabated until modern times. The author can not only put forward new insights from existing historical perspectives, but also draw new historical perspectives from well-known historical materials; his problem-conscious narrative style is full of possibilities for discussion and the extensibility of topics.

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Italy is the birthplace of the Renaissance, the birthplace of Baroque art, and the cradle of Western civilization. Today's Italians have a strong sense of pride. Just a few place names like Tuscany, Milan, Rome, and Venice can reveal a lot of cultural information. Drawing on a large number of traveler diaries, memoirs and letters throughout history, Jeremy Black explains Italy's past of more than two thousand years in simple words, from the rise of Rome to the enslaved unified country, to the fascist regime in the 20th century, and to the current republic; from food, fashion and art, architecture, to the beautiful surrounding islands, this book examines the source of Italian cultural influence, explores the causes and impact of historical events, and the differences in concepts that exist to this day. European essays by a master of history, and an open history course by a prolific Oxford writer. Reread Italy's two thousand years of history from the perspective of civil and commercial competition, not only war and peace, but also life and food. The combination of practical information and fun makes reading not boring at all.

This book provides an overview of the historical process from ancient Britain to modern Britain, describing the rise and fall of Britain from a small island country, which became increasingly powerful with the help of the Industrial Revolution, to an invincible maritime hegemon, and gradually established the largest colonial empire on earth where "the sun never sets" until it faded away. In the author's writing, the characters are lifelike, the major events are detailed and detailed, and the history is completely reproduced. Britain took the lead in realizing the Industrial Revolution and became the most advanced country in the world, promoting the world to enter the era of industrial economy; it pioneered bourgeois parliamentary democracy, a two-party system and a responsible cabinet system, which are models for new political systems in the world's capitalist countries; Newton's classical mechanics system and Darwin's theory of evolution laid an important foundation for the development of modern science. Humanist scholars such as Shakespeare and Bacon left immortal spiritual wealth for future generations. World History has a (Platinum Edition) series of books: "The Roman Empire: The Development of a Overlord", "The British Empire: The Sun Never Sets", "Germany: A History of Iron and Blood", "France: The Guillotine in the Louvre", "Russia: The Myth of the Double-Headed Eagle", "America: The Pioneers Carrying a Shotgun".

This book provides an overview of the historical development of the origin, rise and decline of the Roman Empire, and describes the 2,000-year historical process in which a small tribe in the Mediterranean used force and blood to build an unprecedented and huge empire, but ultimately could not withstand the ravages of time and barbarian attacks and went to destruction. The author's writing style is sharp, the characters in the novel are lifelike, the major events are detailed and detailed, and the history is completely reproduced. The bloody and martial Romans, the well-trained army, the relaxed political system, the laws that were adopted as standards by later generations, the architecture, history and literature of later generations, the tolerant humility and broad mind, created the "Eternal City" Rome, which has occupied the center of the stage around the Mediterranean for many years and spanned the three continents of ancient Asia, Europe and Africa. World History has a (Platinum Edition) series of books: "The Roman Empire: The Development of a Overlord", "The British Empire: The Sun Never Sets", "Germany: A History of Iron and Blood", "France: The Guillotine in the Louvre", "Russia: The Myth of the Double-Headed Eagle", "America: The Pioneers Carrying a Shotgun".