启蒙到大革命：理性与激情

A History of the Modern World #1

by R.R. Palmer, R.R. 帕尔默, Joel Colton

帕尔默等人所著的《现代世界史》初版于1950 年，广受好评，其销量在同类作品中始终名列前茅。它上溯欧洲古典时代，下及21世纪初，娓娓道来西欧如何在数百年里逐渐兴起，创造出一个辐射全球的政治、经济、军事、科技诸方面的世界体系。该书视野宏大，内容广博，论述细密，见解深刻睿智，展示出历史的奥妙与魅力所在。

本册《启蒙到大革命：理性与激情》论述了从17世纪科学革命、启蒙运动到法国大革命的历史进程。科学革命和启蒙运动从思想上解放了欧洲人的头脑，奠定了对理性、进步的广泛信仰，而开明专制、美国革命和法国大革命则是这些信念的实践。

258 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2010

About the author

Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 – June 11, 2002), commonly known as R. R. Palmer, was a distinguished American historian at Princeton and Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century France. His most influential work of scholarship, The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800 (1959 and 1964), examined an age of democratic revolution that swept the Atlantic civilization between 1760 and 1800. He was awarded the Bancroft Prize in History for the first volume. Palmer also achieved distinction as a history text writer.

Reviews

[WaldenOgre · Rating 4 out of 5]

能把历史作为一个整体，如此清晰而又千丝万缕地呈现在读者面前，实在了不起。而且最感慨的是，这居然又是一本美国大学的教科书。能在最好的年纪接受到这种广度和深度的通识教育，真是一桩幸事。两相比对，无限唏嘘。