欧洲崛起：现代世界的入口

A History of the Modern World #2

by R.R. Palmer, R.R. 帕尔默, Joel Colton

《欧洲崛起:现代世界的入口》简要回顾了欧洲古代到中世纪的历史，重点讲述了从中世纪晚期到18世纪上半期欧洲的发展。它旨在阐明，欧洲这个原本落后的地区，如何最先演化出现代的诸种重要事物，从而开启了现代世界之门。

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。其视野宏大，内容广博，而文字典雅，观点时有耳目一新却又有理有据，让人感悟历史之深邃奥妙。

272 pages, Paperback

Published September 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]

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