两次世界大战：西方的没落？

A History of the Modern World #4

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。

本书讲述从1914年到1945年间的世界历史。两次世界大战使得欧洲的相对实力衰落，欧洲之外的美国和俄罗斯崛起。

232 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2011

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.

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