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Helena Rosenblatt dispelled this widespread misunderstanding by sorting out the evolution of the meanings of "liberty" and "liberalism" from ancient Rome to contemporary times, as well as the various debates surrounding the meaning of this term throughout history. In her view, liberals are moralists at heart at first, and they never talk about individual rights without setting aside their civic obligations. Liberalism has been artificially shaped into an American ideology that only focuses on individual freedom. It is a product of the Cold War and the expansion of American global hegemony. This book lays a good foundation for rethinking the value of freedom and launching a more constructive discussion on freedom and democracy.

What are the characteristics of an empire? What risks lurks in the imperial order, and what opportunities does it provide? Suddenly these questions were no longer merely of historical interest. In today's world, the dominant position held by the United States is a threat in the eyes of many people. Do politicians in Washington set the rules and the rest of the world just obey them? Or is there a logic of world domination that even Washington has to submit to? In this book, Helfrid Minkler explains how empires work and what types of empires have appeared throughout history. The author travels through the thousand-year history with ease, and at the same time makes a superb analysis of a subject of great practical significance.

War, crisis, disaster - for many people living in this era, the period from 1914 to 1945 is like the second Thirty Years' War. It was the "German Chapter" of Western history and the most terrifying chapter in human history. In his work, Heinrich August Winkler for the first time took into account perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic, stood at the center of historical observation, and wrote the history of the West systematically and coherently.

This is Paul Johnson's most important world history work. The book is 1,200 pages thick and is divided into 20 chapters. It starts with the introduction of the "theory of relativity", an epoch-making event of the scientific revolution, and contains a deep sense of criticism and suspicion from the beginning. It can be said that the history of the 20th century that we are most familiar with so far often presents a different aspect in his writing, such as a new understanding of the theory of relativity and its proposers, contributors, and followers, as well as his reinterpretation of many so-called "major historical events" and so on.

After Obama was elected president in 2008, has the United States really entered a "post-racial society" as some media said? In fact, racist ideas are still prevalent in the United States, and they are more subtle and sophisticated than before. Kendi traces the history of anti-Black racist ideas and their surprising power. Using five outstanding figures in American history as his guide, he sharply reveals that racist ideas are not caused by ignorance or hatred, but are designed by the most influential minds.

Cold War, the most gripping nonfiction book of the year, gives us an unprecedented sense of what it was like to be in a world on the verge of destruction. Here's the truth behind all the spy novels you've read: why the United States and the Soviet Union were at a standoff; how close we came to nuclear catastrophe; what contemporary leaders, from Stalin to Mao, Reagan to Gorbachev, had in mind; how intelligence agents plotted, and how East German vacationers contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is a story about crisis talk, excuses, tyrants and power struggles, and ordinary people changing the course of history.

This book is a new authoritative work on the Persian Empire, which mainly tells the history from the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus to the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander of Macedon. This book focuses on some of the reform measures adopted by Darius during his reign, and also explains how he managed a culturally diverse, ethnically diverse and complex empire. From the book, readers can read that Persian kings ruled an empire that stretched from Libya to the Asian steppes and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. The Persian Empire had the legendary palace city of Persepolis, where the Achaemenid monarchs held grand court ceremonies. This book breaks away from the influence of Western historiography and has a rational and objective stance. It has been widely praised since its publication and has far-reaching influence.

The double life of a hilarious spy, a true history that is stranger than fiction. In 1987, a best-selling book called "The Man Who Caught a Spy" was banned by the British government. The reason was that the book was so true that it violated confidentiality requirements; Cambridge University broke away from the "Five" of Soviet spies, and British nobles became the pillars of the KGB; fearing that the exposure of espionage incidents would bring public relations crises, bureaucrats often kept it secret and even deliberately let suspects go; spies accepted it in their later years During the interview, he said that it was only a small part of life. He spent much more time picking up children and doing housework than doing espionage work... When the grassroots team encountered the Cuban missile crisis, the Berlin tunnel, and the crash of a South Korean passenger plane... Uncover the thrilling and oozing truth behind the great power game!

Christopher Clark, the author of this book, evaluates it as: "The only true European revolution in history." This book uses a multi-dimensional perspective and integrates micro narrative and macro analysis to reconstruct the panoramic view of the European Revolution of 1848, placing this turmoil sweeping the European continent within the complex network of social structure, ideology and global change. This book first starts with the underlying social issues and analyzes the deep social crises on the eve of the revolution: class conflicts caused by poverty and famine, and political incompetence caused by the collapse of the old order. The second chapter turns to ideological debates, analyzing the tug-of-war between "order" and "freedom" among various ideological factions, reshaping European political discourse, and providing a spiritual program for subsequent actions. Chapters 3 and 4 restore the process of the outbreak of the revolution and reproduce how the people broke through the shackles of the old system with violence and ideals. However, the joy of victory is fleeting: in chapters five to seven, the revolutionary regime faces paradoxes and challenges, while at the same time, conservative forces have quietly reorganized the power network. Finally, Chapter 8 describes the counter-revolutionary counterattack and the return of the monarchy. But the book does not stop at the "failure" of the revolution. Chapter 9 casts its horizons around the world, revealing how the aftermath of the European Revolution of 1848 continues to reverberate across a wide range. This book is not only a magnificent history of European revolutions, but also a revelation about ideals, power, human nature and historical contingency.

"The Bet: A Story of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder" is a historical non-fiction work narrated by David Grann, one of the most famous contemporary non-fiction writers. It is a tortuous and thrilling grand narrative about human nature. It recreates the history of human navigation in the 18th century and also reveals a hidden history on British warships at that time. On January 28, 1742, a dilapidated ship made of wood and strips of cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were 30 extremely emaciated men, survivors of the HMS Vejer, which was wrecked in 1740 on a secret mission during the Imperial War with Spain. These miraculous survivors were welcomed as heroes. But six months later, another, even more dilapidated ship landed on the Chilean coast, and its three victims told a contrary story: The 30 sailors were not heroes, but mutineers. The first respond with their own counter-claims against a tyrannical high-ranking official and his entourage, uncovering the struggles, betrayals and murders that took place on a deserted island while the group was stranded after a shipwreck. The Admiralty set up a military trial to determine the truth.

On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb known as "Little Boy" was dropped from an American aircraft on Hiroshima, Japan. On this day, this prosperous city with a population of 300,000 suffered an unprecedented fire storm. One-third of the population died, buildings were burned, and bustling markets were reduced to ashes. But this was not the end of the war, but the terrible dawn of the atomic age. What followed was decades of paranoia, suspicion, and the ultimate fear of humanity's self-destruction, shock waves that continue to this day. In "Shock Waves", the outstanding director Stephen Walker panoramically reproduces the thrilling 21 days before the atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima and the 18 hours after the explosion. This is a direct and dangerous drama. Walker turns history into a suffocating heartbeat, and objectively presents the shocking collision of technology, military and civilian destiny with a narrative like a movie lens. You will travel between the memories of scientists, bomber crew members, and Japanese soldiers and civilians who participated in the development of the atomic bomb. Together with the characters in the book, you will experience the long 30 minutes, 3 minutes, and 45 seconds before the nuclear explosion, and witness the tragedy after the explosion with the survivors. Shapes: Corpses that have been charred to the point of being out of shape, fire storms that sweep across everything, "walking zombies" whose bodies are so charred that they can no longer tell whether they are male or female... "Nuclear Explosion Shock Wave" is not about telling history, but taking you into history and experiencing the moment before the world changes. This history must be retold so that its terrible lessons are never forgotten.

In the first month of 666 AD, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty Li Zhi took Empress Wu, the clan, and officials to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen. The Tang court held a high-profile Zen ceremony, which was undoubtedly one of the purposes of promoting the country's prestige to surrounding countries. Present were envoys from all over West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia and East Asia, and of course envoys from Japan, which was defeated by the Tang Dynasty and Silla coalition forces three years ago. At this time, Japan had fully imitated and studied the laws and regulations of the Tang Dynasty, established a centralized system, and tried to compete with the Tang Dynasty for supremacy on the Korean Peninsula. Since the Japanese king Zan sent envoys to Liu and Song Dynasty in 421 AD, various Japanese regimes have successively sent envoys, students and monks to the Southern Qi, Nanliang, Sui and Tang dynasties over hundreds of years. In the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and the early Song Dynasty, a large number of Buddhist monks arrived amidst wars and turmoil. The culture, religion, and politics of East Asian countries interacted closely through personnel exchanges. Since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the relationship between China and Japan has always been an important part of China's foreign relations. Whether it is the Mongol conquest, the tribute system, cultural and commercial exchanges, or the several aggressive wars launched by Japan in East Asia, it has always affected the international structure of Asia today. How to re-view ancient Sino-Japanese relations within the framework of Asian history? Based on the analysis and textual research of historical data, the author of this book presents a vivid and rich picture of the history of Sino-Japanese exchanges by discussing and clarifying the concept of "tianxia" and the legitimacy of rule, fifteen envoy exchanges between the Tang and Japan, the spread of Buddhist culture, and the transformation of Sino-Japanese relations after the fall of the Tang Dynasty.

In this book, author Steven Hahn tells us that illiberalism has never been a heresy in the United States, but a dark thread that runs through and even shapes American history. From the colonial period to the issuance of the Declaration of Independence, buying and selling black slaves, expelling indigenous people, exploiting indentured servants, and suppressing different beliefs were commonplace. Hierarchy, exploitation, and exclusivity were institutional arrangements of the country, making liberation and oppression always go hand in hand. From the Revolutionary War to the Reconstruction era, although the flag of freedom was held high, racial hierarchy was still tolerated and continued in order to maintain the union. Freedom existed in name only because of the compromise of the federal government and the violence of white supremacy in the South. From the Progressive Era to after World War II, reforms and progress in all fields of politics, economy, and society seemed to be in full swing, but the introduction of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the violent suppression of labor unions, and even the political purges of the McCarthy era all demonstrated the suppression of diversity and dissent by the state apparatus; even after the unprecedented achievements of the civil rights movement, racism continued in a new form, and old inequalities were not fundamentally eliminated until the outbreak of the "Black Lives Matter" movement. This is not simply a retelling of history, but a call for reflection. Hahn uses rich history and affectionate writing to remind readers: The entanglement and struggle between freedom and illiberalism is the main thread of the 250-year history of the United States.

This book not only focuses on Martin Luther, who launched the Reformation by posting the Ninety-Five Theses in Wittenberg in 1517, but also attempts to present what the world looked like at this time: What happened in and around 1517? Schilling, a professor at Humboldt University and an expert on early European history, shuttles between the secular and the religious, the economic and the military, the social and the psychological, the ideological and the material, leading us into the world we lived in in 1517 - from the German, French, Spanish and Italian Continent, the unfamiliar Moscow, the rising Ottoman Empire, to the Ming Dynasty China and the Aztec Empire in Central America. We can experience the power structure and living conditions of this era, the flow of goods and wealth, the dynamics of ideas and new inventions, as well as the mentality and cognition of all social strata. This book has fluent language and vivid narrative, restoring to readers a world at the dawn of change.

"History of Egypt" records the kings of Egypt from ancient times to the eve of Alexander's conquest. It is very influential in modern academic circles and is Manetho's most important work. The full text has been lost for a long time, no manuscripts have been handed down, and there are only a few relevant papyrus documents. It has not even left traces in the mainstream culture of the Greco-Roman world. Today, only some fragments are mainly preserved in the excerpts of Josephus's "Against Apion" and the "Abstracts" of several Christian chroniclers on the names of ancient Egyptian kings, reign times and some deeds. Judging from the current fragments, "History of Egypt" is mainly organized in time, describing the dynastic changes and throne succession in ancient Egypt from ancient times to the eve of Alexander's conquest. According to estimates by modern scholars, Manetho's complete book covers about 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian history and more than 400 Egyptian kings. There are 114 kings' names left today, 84 of which can be compared with the kings' names discovered and determined by modern Egyptology. Therefore, "History of Egypt" has been regarded as an authoritative reference material since the French scholar Champollion deciphered the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and it still occupies an important position in Egyptology research to this day.

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A hotly debated historical masterpiece, historian John D. Granger tells history from his heart, explaining the rise, fall, and rebirth of human civilization. This is a historical work detailing how Constantinople was repeatedly contested by different dynasties and armies over 2,500 years. Constantinople was a great city with an extremely important geographical location. Over the past 2,500 years, it had been besieged forty times and captured three to four times. Almost every power between the Atlantic Ocean and the Eurasian steppes tried to capture the city, but in the end only the Roman emperors, the Crusaders, and the Turks succeeded. In modern and modern times, it is still a charming capital and is known as the "city of desire in the world." After years of collecting information and writing, British historian John D. Granger narrates the details of Constantinople's foreign wars, showing the vicissitudes of an ancient city. He also thoroughly explains why Constantinople suffered forty sieges and why it has such important strategic significance. It is the authoritative reading in this field in recent years.

The 2023 National Book Award-winning work, the true history of American struggle, historian Ned Blackhawk deconstructs the contradictions and redemption of the rise of the United States. In American history, Native Americans are often ignored by historians. They are either obstacles that white people need to overcome, or they are excluded from the history of the United States from its independence to becoming a powerful nation. Even the most enduring Indians in American history have not many stories to tell. However, this long-standing neglect of Native American history is changing in recent years, with many new generations of scholars insisting that any complete U. S. History should not erase the efforts of Native Americans, especially Indian nations, to survive and revitalize. The well-known American historian Ned Blackhawk interweaves the history of the conquistadors and indigenous peoples in the Americas over five centuries, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination at the end of the 20th century. He shows the glorious deeds of Native Americans and puts forward a series of thought-provoking perspectives.

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"Poor white trash" is a common derogatory term for poor white people in American English. At present, it specifically refers to the white group living on the margins of society and the grassroots, and is regarded as a factor of social unrest and instability. After Trump wins the White House again in 2025, the once-marginalized "poor white trash" has increasingly surfaced and taken over the mainstream. In order to analyze the current social ecology of the United States, political and cultural scholar Nancy Eisenberg used a large number of historical facts to outline the social status and image of the lower class white people over the past four hundred years, truly restoring the social life history of this group that has been ignored for a long time, and calling on the public to face the poverty and hidden class issues of the lower class white people.

Human history is a history of migration. How did ancient Roman immigrants become the basis of myth and ultimately contribute to the slow death of the Roman Empire? How did early European immigration to the Americas and other regions impact us? The Epic of Gilgamesh is an immigration story? How did Chinatowns around the world form? We always have a quick answer when asked where we were born, but do you know where you originally came from? ...Migration is not just about obeying or escaping, but also about resisting difficulties and seizing opportunities. Read the story of human migration and find our way forward.

This book can be called a historical and philosophical work that everyone can understand and must read. In 1968, in order to make it easier for general readers to read the 11-volume "Story of Civilization" (or translated as "History of World Civilization"), the Durants wrote "The Lessons of History" on this basis. "The Lessons of History" condenses the essence of 11 volumes. Through succinct outlines, it explains in detail the role played by geographical conditions, economic conditions, racial superiority and inferiority, human nature, religious activities, socialism, government, war, morality, laws of rise and decline, biological evolution, etc. In history. It outlines the relationship between history and all aspects of human life, and summarizes the huge spiritual legacy that history has left to mankind, embodying their "complete historical view" of human history.

The Tudor Dynasty was an era of change that led Britain to capitalism. In just 118 years, it created a golden period in the history of British monarchy and became the most exciting and important part of European history. The Tudor dynasty is also the most notorious royal family in British history. Compared with political achievements, the emotional lives of its members are too rich to ignore and arouse curiosity. In this book, Gristwood not only restores this crucial period in British history and even world history, but also reveals how love irreversibly made and destroyed this dynasty. He also deeply explores the concept of "courtly love" and focuses on analyzing the driving force and importance of female characters in the confrontation of power.

Sit back and watch the changes in the Muromachi era, and laugh at the successes and failures of historical figures. This book mainly discusses the historical evolution of Japan's Muromachi period, and also covers the Northern and Southern Dynasties era of "two emperors and two capitals" and the Warring States period of "disputes between heroes". The author uses documentary and historical materials from China, Japan, Korea and other countries, and mainly uses text narratives, accompanied by diagrams. From the perspective of a Chinese scholar, he presents a magnificent picture of the history of the Muromachi period in Japan from the perspective of a Chinese scholar in simple and easy-to-understand terms. From the Muromachi period to the Kamakura period, when samurai began to take power, and to the Edo period, when seclusion and even isolation began, they occupy a special place in Japanese history. The history of the Muromachi period is not only an important part of Japanese history, but also an indispensable part of the regional history of East Asia. The "disgraceful" group of Japanese pirates alone passively connected China, Japan, North Korea and other countries, and even affected and changed the political order of East Asia to a certain extent. The "profit-seeking" behavior of exploration and cooperation actively connected goods and people from the above-mentioned countries, forming the phenomenon of East Asian cultural circulation.

This book starts from archeology and combines the research results of history, linguistics, anthropology and other disciplines to deeply explore the core question raised by Jared Diamond in "Guns, Germs and Steel" - why the civilizations of the Eurasian continent occupy a dominant position in global history. The author re-examines the history of human social development over approximately 10,000 years, focusing on six major elements: agriculture, writing, maps, metallurgy, cavalry, and human migration, and reveals the underlying logic behind the development of civilizations in Eurasia that is stronger than that in other regions. As history evolves, human beings are constantly reflecting, shifting from bloody conquest to peaceful coexistence. The author reviews the evolution of social forms and the rise and fall of empires, and emphasizes the important role of modern international organizations such as the United Nations in maintaining global peace and sustainable development.

This book focuses on reconstructing the writing paradigm of Southeast Asian regional history from the perspective of overall history and civilization history, emphasizing the close integration of the diachronic and synchronic nature of Southeast Asian regional development. It not only pays attention to the evolutionary trajectories of Southeast Asian countries and the region as a whole at different time sections, but also pays attention to the horizontal connections between various countries and nations at the same time section. The main content includes three sections: "History of Regional Development of Southeast Asia", "History of Southeast Asian Culture" and "History of Exchanges between Southeast Asia and Surrounding Areas". Among them, "History of Regional Development of Southeast Asia" focuses on constructing the development context of Southeast Asian history from an overall historical perspective. It not only pays attention to the vertical evolution of the history of various countries, but also pays attention to sorting out the horizontal connections of the historical development of various countries, so as to fully present the overall appearance of Southeast Asian regional history.

The Vietnam War in the 20th century profoundly demonstrated the complex impact of war on the environment: it created ruins and affected post-war reconstruction for a long time. The US military has invested in almost all modern weapons except nuclear weapons, dropped bombs with a total tonnage exceeding that of World War II, built a large number of military bases, and even sprayed chemicals to clear the jungle. After the war, children played around abandoned tanks, toxic substances remained under the surface, villages and towns were stubbornly rebuilt, and military bases became industrial parks... In addition to telling the Vietnam War in the 20th century, this book also traces many wars in Vietnam's history: the "Northern Era", the Nguyen-Zheng War, French colonization, and Japanese invasion... These wars and their post-war reconstruction occurred repeatedly in the central zone centered on the ancient capital Hue, as if forming a layered footprint. This reflects that no matter how advanced military activities are, they are still limited by the local natural and cultural environment. Just like after the US military landed, they embarrassingly found that they could only build military camps in the cemeteries of local villages.

This book chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a nation-state, and reveals that the displacement of Iraqi Jews was not the result of persecution but the result of misguided state policies in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sadly, to this day, the impossibility of Arabs and Jews coexisting remains the dominant narrative in the region.

As a thinker and master of postmodernism, Baudrillard did not understand the conceptual United States from documentary materials. He spent his time in the deserts, mountains, highways, Los Angeles, Safeway supermarkets, and depressed towns in the United States instead of the lecture halls of universities. "America" ​​is a cultural criticism of the United States from the perspective of old Europe. Baudrillard expressed his amazing thoughts on the smiles on the faces of Americans everywhere, as well as the popular phenomena such as elections, jogging, break dancing, graffiti, and marathons in the United States. In Baudrillard's eyes, desert culture is the most important feature of American culture, and the vast, pure, uncivilized desert is the backdrop of American cities. America is neither a dream nor reality, it is a hyperreality.

A direct look at the impact of Trump's election as president in this American history! Never has a history of the United States been so comprehensive! This book comprehensively displays the development process and social divisions of the United States from Columbus to Trump. It is the work of Gil Lepore, an extremely important historian in the United States today! Unlike any previous American history work, it reshapes the themes of American history: consensus and division. Beginning in 1492, this book shows the founding, wars, development and role of the United States in major world events in chronological order. The author believes that American history is a large-scale human political practice based on the three concepts of political equality, natural rights, and people's sovereignty. This book records the causes, processes, and consequences of this practice over more than 400 years. "Americans lack a common historical background, and a republic built on a foundation full of cracks can easily break and collapse." The author uses multiple perspectives to restore the true history of the gradually shattered American dream, hoping to guide readers to find the true meaning of this country, and at the same time help us intuitively understand the history and current situation of the United States. Only by reading this book can you understand the divisions in today's American society and understand the impact of Trump's election as president. Liu Suli, Li Xuetao, Liang Wendao and Xiong Peiyun sincerely recommend.

From unemployed workers in bustling cities, to farmers fleeing the disaster in the "Dust Basin", from exploited child laborers, to the intellectual elite on the East Coast... Different from mechanical and cold overlooking narratives, Dixon Weckert likes to see the basic necessities of life during the financial plague through the eyes of these little people. He uses real words and delicate brushstrokes to lead us back to the "Roaring Era" to see how people at that time fought against the difficult times with little power. Surrounded by the hidden torrent of the times, no one knows that they are going through the deepest changes in history. Massive unemployment, stagnant economic growth, companies falling into a cruel involution-style elimination competition, competition in various industries has secretly intensified, and industries and individuals have lost confidence; old industries are transforming and new industries are growing; everyone is striving to respond to new challenges with new models... The reasons for the economic ups and downs that have been repeated over the past 100 years can be found in the Great Depression.

This book provides a detailed and splendid description of Britain's politics, economy, society, diplomacy, war, landscape, and humanities after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Under the rule of Queen Anne, the last monarch of the Stuart dynasty, Britain not only participated in the European war that lasted for more than 10 years - the War of Spanish Succession, but also achieved a major victory and officially became the leading power in Europe. This book not only reveals the reasons for Britain's victory, including the relatively relaxed social atmosphere after the revolution, the growing commercial society, the gradual formation of the fiscal-military state system, the rise of party politics, the parallelism of the blue ocean strategy and the European continental strategy, and the military talent of the Duke of Marlborough, etc., But also illustrates the fierce domestic struggle that was going on at the same time. The book also describes in detail the many land and sea wars between Britain and France under Louis XIV, as well as the characteristics of the war techniques popular in Europe in the early 18th century. In addition, this book has excellent comments on the balance of power diplomacy popular in Europe in the 18th century, as well as the politics, military and diplomacy of the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire.

This book reviews the history of relations between Russia and France over more than 200 years from the time of Peter the Great to World War I, which includes wars, confrontations, indifference and rejection, as well as relaxation, alliances, admiration and acceptance. For most of these 200 years, France has been a symbol of European strength and light. Therefore, the Russian-French relationship during this period can be said to be a microcosm of Russian-European relations and a prelude to today's grievances between Russia and the West! At the same time, observing the game between Russia and France and other European powers during this period also provides us with a unique perspective for observing the rise of the Russian Empire!

Northeastern Asia has a vast land, and many ethnic groups, large and small, have thrived here throughout history, creating a unique northern ethnic culture. After the 16th century, Russia began to colonize and expand eastward. By the 1860s, the Russian Far East territory in the modern sense was basically formed, and Russia became China's largest land neighbor. Since then, the Russian government has promoted economic and social changes in the Far East by accelerating immigration and building railways. During the Soviet period, various undertakings in the Far East achieved rapid development and played an important role in regional economic layout, foreign economic and trade relations, and geopolitical relations. Before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the development of the Far East stagnated for a long time. Entering the 21st century, the Russian government has identified the development of the Far East as a priority and has issued a series of development outlines, policies and regulations to promote economic structural transformation and regional population growth, and strengthen multi-field cooperation with China and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The new round of development and opening up of the Russian Far East is having a profound impact on the changing landscape of Russia and the world.

History is a mirror, and only by taking history as a mirror can we face the future. The author has been engaged in research on the history of Sino-Japanese relations for more than 40 years, and this book selects some of his research results. The book is divided into four parts. The first part uses history as a mirror to discuss the historical experiences and lessons of China and Japan in understanding and comparing each other. The second part uses events as a mirror to discuss the interactive impact of major historical events in China and Japan in modern times and their experiences and lessons. The third part uses books as a mirror to discuss the writing process of important works on Japanese studies in modern China and their historical significance and evaluation. The fourth part uses people as a mirror to discuss the interactions between some famous historical figures in China and Japan in modern times and the deeds that promoted Sino-Japanese friendship.

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This book narrates the history from the invasion of Africa by Western colonialists to contemporary Africa, explores the relationship between history and culture, and focuses on analyzing the cultural connotations contained in complex historical events and the impact of cultural development on history. Through a comprehensive investigation of the political, economic and cultural aspects of African countries from a historical perspective, it reflects the vividness of African historical development and the richness and integrity of culture. Based on on-the-spot investigation, the author combines practical insights with the excavation of Chinese and foreign documents to display African historical and cultural features and African people's values, aesthetics and nationality in detail, so as to help people understand African society more comprehensively.

Türkiye is located at the intersection of Eurasia and its geographical location is extremely important. Historically, the Ottoman Empire became a large empire spanning three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, which lasted until its disintegration at the end of World War I. After the Kemal Revolution in the 1920s, the Republic of Türkiye began to embark on the road to modernization. After World War II, Türkiye implemented a multi-party parliamentary system and joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Contemporary Türkiye is full of ambitions as a great power and is trying to create greater glory.

This book uses the knowledge system of "A Concise World History Reader" edited by Wu Yin as the framework, collects relevant basic historical knowledge, and provides a concise and concise handbook of world history knowledge for readers with intermediate and above educational levels. This book includes two parts: world historical terms and world historical chronology. Its historical knowledge covers basic historical theoretical categories and world history from the origin of mankind to 1949.

This book is a popular history book that introduces the political changes in Western Asia BC, covering the period starting from the Sumerian civilization in the 4th millennium BC, passing through the Akkadian civilization, the Babylonian civilization, then the Assyrian civilization and the Persian civilization, and finally ending with the replacement of Persia by the Macedonian Empire. Compared with existing academic works, this book has three distinct characteristics: first, it puts aside historical details and focuses on outlining the context and framework of political changes in West Asia before BC, in order to help readers quickly grasp the ins and outs of ancient West Asia; second, it makes the seemingly chaotic regime more detailed Instead, it restores it to the long-lasting game between Semites and Indo-Europeans, revealing the clues and motivations of political changes in ancient West Asia; third, it connects the distant and unfamiliar ancient West Asia with major historical events in ancient East Asia, establishes a connection in time and space, and gives the history of a foreign land a sense of intimacy.

Postwar Germany was a country full of occupiers, freed persons, displaced persons, evacuees, escapees and those burdened with war crimes. They plunder, steal, fake identities, and start everything from scratch in order to survive. Can this be done? When a country's order is gone, how can society be reborn in such chaos? How do people rebuild their lives in such a "wolf age" where "others are evil wolves"? The loss of living order, the fragmentation of families, the threat of hunger and poverty, the shadow of war guilt, the silence about the Holocaust, the ecstasy of escaping death - the aftermath of the Third Reich continues to affect this devastated country. This book is a cultural history of daily life and people's spiritual history in Germany after World War II. It focuses on the post-war life of Germans in the ten years after World War II, especially their spiritual mentality and emotional life. The author abandons grand narratives and political frameworks and starts from the daily lives of ordinary people: the mobilization to clean up ruins, the experience of material scarcity and the black market, the pursuit of instant gratification, the experience of the Great Migration, women's awareness of autonomy, the re-education of the Allies, the miracle of economic takeoff, the cultural policy of "reshaping ideas", changes in art and design fashion, and how Germans in daily life collectively avoid the guilt of the war. The chaotic and disordered life of the German people after the war was full of multiple aspects. People had sadness and self-pity for the war, but also the desire to start over immediately, the unscrupulous means to survive, and the desire to survive and enjoy life in time. Harald Jenner offers a new, panoramic account of the first postwar decade that sheds new light on Germany's postwar recovery and the realities of daily life. It also sheds light on how and why Germany was able to transform from a sinister fascist ideology into a modern democracy.

What is "modern Japan"? What is its budding and development history? Is each node unique or resonant? How did Japan evolve from a fragmented land of warring heroes to the world's second largest economy at the end of the 20th century? This is a masterpiece of Japanese history spanning four centuries, starting from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and ending at the end of the 20th century. Marius Jensen, honorary professor at Princeton University and editor-in-chief of "Cambridge History of Japan", takes the formation and development of the modern country as a clue, leading readers through the Edo, Meiji, Showa, and Heisei eras, exploring Japan's politics and economy, thought and culture, military and diplomacy, and revealing how modern Japan was born amidst change, struggle, and innovation. The establishment of the powerful rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, Brigadier General Perry's forced opening of Japan's ports, and Japan's defeat in World War II. These three events initiated three periods of painful and dramatic changes in Japanese history. The author accurately captures the key figures and important events during this period. From being forced to open the country, to proactively seeking innovation and change, to crazy external expansion, these behaviors are all the result of the game of various forces and the collision of different ideological trends in the international community and Japan. This broad-scope and all-encompassing work also presents Japan's literature and art, social scene, and people's lives. As an indispensable part of history, they also make the book's narrative more interesting and humane.

In world history, the Silk Road is a famous symbol. So what does it actually look like? People often imagine it as a hazy scene: camel caravans carrying silks traveling through the dusty desert, between China and Rome. But this book will reveal to you: the reality is very different, and much more interesting than this picture. The author uses a large number of the latest archaeological discoveries, synthesizes cutting-edge research results in six languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Russian, and adds dozens of first-hand documentary materials based on the previous edition. These documentary materials involve a variety of ancient languages, including memoirs of ancient Chinese monks and modern explorers, letters written by ancient women, legal contracts, religious hymns, etc. "From Dunhuang to Samarkand" has higher academic value and a more popular story. It also allows readers to get closer to all aspects of the ancient Silk Road and feel the true appearance of the Silk Road in person.

This book innovatively adopts the dual perspectives of Britain and Southeast Asia, combined with the background of real-time international relations between Europe, the United States and Southeast Asia, and uses a comparative method to longitudinally examine the similarities and differences between Malaya and Myanmar in the process of colonial formation, coping with British political, economic, educational and social colonial policies, as well as retaining British colonial heritage after the war, and choosing the path of decolonization. The results show that colonization and being colonized are a historical process of unequal two-way interaction. This process is not only closely related to the pre-colonial histories of Malaysia and Myanmar, but also played a crucial role in the construction of modern nation-states after the war.

After World War II, striving for hegemony with the Soviet Union and containing the "expansion" of communism in Asia and the Pacific were the top priorities of the United States' Asian security policy. To this end, the United States manipulated the United Nations Security Council to hand over the Northern Mariana Islands and Micronesia Islands to the United States under trusteeship. Since then, the United States has implemented the strategy of "military denial" and "military veto" in the Micronesian Islands, establishing large military bases as "forward bases" to compete with the Soviet Union for Pacific hegemony and as military fortresses to prevent other major powers from entering the Pacific from the west coast of the Pacific. In order to occupy this strategic military area for a long time, successive U. S. Governments have repeatedly obstructed the people of the Micronesian Islands from achieving national independence and self-determination. At the end of the twentieth century, the United States was forced to allow the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau to become independent due to pressure from local people and the international community. However, the three countries also paid a heavy price for their national independence: they were forced to sign the "Free Association Agreement" with the United States, allowing the United States to continue to implement the "military denial" and "military veto" strategies in the region and retain troops and military bases.

This book focuses on the literary historical facts of the spread of late-Victorian naturalism in Britain. It takes the critical debates and interactive mechanisms in the spread of French naturalist writers' works in the UK as the research object. It mainly uses theories such as genetics, communication, and reception aesthetics. On the basis of exploring the "worldliness" of naturalism, it systematically conducts a multi-dimensional investigation and in-depth exploration of the process, morphological characteristics, reasons for resistance, effects, and historical evolution of the spread of naturalism in the UK, and outlines the three-dimensional scene of the spread of naturalism in the UK.

"Global History Review" was founded in 2008 by the Global History Research Center of Capital Normal University, with Professors Liu Xincheng and Liu Wenming as chief editors. It is committed to promoting the research perspective and methods of global history in the Chinese history academic circle, advocating research on cross-cultural, cross-national, and long-term historical phenomena, focusing on revealing the interaction and exchanges of civilizations in a global perspective, and exploring the globalization process in politics, economy, and culture, and its interaction with local characteristics.

This book was revised by the author from the 2015 National Social Science Foundation project "Research on Early Modern Agricultural Society in India from the Perspective of Tribal Social Theory". In the academic context of the turn of Indian historiography in contemporary international academic circles, this book comprehensively and meticulously examines the different interpretations of orthodox Indian historiography and new Indian historiography on early modern agricultural society in India and the Mughal Empire, and creatively proposes a theory of historical space. In addition, the author further examines the historical issues of orthodox Indian historiography and new Indian historiography, and analyzes the specific historical context of the emergence of orthodox Indian historiography and new Indian historiography from the perspective of intellectual history. This book is the first monographic work on the turn of Indian history in domestic academic circles. Its publication will greatly update our knowledge of Indian history and have a profound impact on the research on Indian history in domestic academic circles.

Based on the positive and negative arguments about empire by ancient Greek historians, this book outlines the historical evolution of the international political concept of imperialism. This book reinterprets the first volume of Thucydides' history as follows: Thucydides wrote the pre-war Spartan citizens' meeting as a court debate against Athens; later, a metaphor of "tyrant city-state" that the Athenians themselves were not taboo about was the "crime" of Athens in this "trial". This metaphor and this debate are central to Thucydides' characterization and historiographical dialectic of Athenian imperialism. The drastic changes in anti-tyrant laws in Athens during the Peloponnesian War were the reasons why Thucydides chose this metaphor and wrote this debate. Through Thucydides, the "tyrant city" metaphor and this debate became the Westphalian voice of the ancient Greek city-state system.

In the pre-modern East Asian world, "China", "Zhonghua" or "Huaxia" were more of a label for civilization, and they were quite homogeneous with neighboring Korea and Vietnam, which shared the Confucian value system of ancient China. They either call themselves Little China, or claim to be "Little China", which is true for the saying that "all the rituals, music, cultural relics, people's customs and practices are all imitated by the imperial dynasty." The eunuch system also imitated China, and eunuchs were often used as tribute. Especially during the Ming and Qing dynasties when the tributary system was the most typical, Annan and Korea, which bordered China, paid the most tribute, becoming the largest source of foreign eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty. This group of outsiders who were closest to the Ming emperor were often sent back to their place of origin as envoys, becoming the most active group on the regional stage in pre-modern East Asia. They even affected the internal affairs and diplomacy of the central dynasty and surrounding vassal states, and can provide a new entry point for interpreting regional relations in East Asia.