Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to 19th-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and more. In the Third Edition, the text has been compressed and streamlined to heighten emphasis on world history stories and themes throughout.
Robert Tignor (Ph.D. Yale University) is Professor Emeritus and the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University and the former three-time chair of the history department. With Gyan Prakash, he introduced Princeton’s first course in world history nearly twenty years ago. Professor Tignor has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in African history and world history and written extensively on the history of twentieth century Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya. Besides his many research trips to Africa, Professor Tignor has taught at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and the University of Nairobi in Kenya.
Jeremy Adelman (D. Phil. Oxford University) is currently the chair of the history department at Princeton University and the Walter S. Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture at Princeton University. He has written and edited five books, including Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World (1999), which won the best book prize in Atlantic history from the American Historical Association. Professor Adelman is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Frederick Burkhardt Award from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Stephen Aron (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of the American West, Autry National Center. A specialist in frontier and western American history, Aron is the author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay and American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State. He has also published articles in a variety of books and journals, including the American Historical Review, the Pacific Historical Review, and the Western Historical Quarterly.
Stephen Kotkin (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of History and teaches European and Asian history at Princeton University, where he also serves as director of Russian Studies. He is the author of Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970–2000 (2001) and Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (1995) and is a coeditor of Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan (1999). His upcoming book is entitled Impaled Horses: Labyrinths of the Ob River Basin, which is a study of the Ob River valley over the last seven centuries. Future works include a biography of Joseph Stalin entitled Stalin’s World. Professor Kotkin has also served twice as a visiting professor in Japan.
Suzanne Marchand (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is associate professor of European and intellectual history at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Professor Marchand also spent a number of years teaching at Princeton University. She is the author of Down from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750–1970 (1996) and is currently writing a book on German “orientalism.”
Gyan Prakash (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is professor of modern Indian history at Princeton University and a member of the Subaltern Studies Editorial Collective. He is the author of Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (1990), Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (1999) and Mumbai Fables (2010). Professor Prakash edited After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements (1995) and Noir Urbanisms (2010), codited The Space of the Modern City (2008) and Utopia/Dystopia (2010), and has written a number of articles on colonialism and history writing. He is currently working on a history of the city of Bombay. With Robert Tignor, he introduced the modern world history course at Princeton University.
Michael Tsin (Ph.D. Princeton) is associate professor of history and international studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He previously taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Princeton University, Columbia University, and the University of Florida. Professor Tsin's primary interests include the histories of modern China and colonialism, and he is the author of Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China: Canton, 1900-1927 (paperback ed., 2003). His current research explores the politics of cultural translation with regard to the refashioning of social and institutional practices in China since the mid-nineteenth century.
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在阅读的过程中,我深刻体会到了“apart”的另一层含义——即“分离”与“差异”。尽管世界在许多层面上变得越来越紧密,但不同文化、不同社会之间固有的差异性依然存在,甚至在某些时刻还会被放大。书中对殖民主义、帝国主义以及民族主义兴起的分析,就清晰地展示了这种“apart”所带来的冲突和挑战。作者并没有回避历史的阴暗面,而是以一种客观但又不失人文关怀的态度,去审视这些复杂的问题。这种对差异的尊重和对冲突的审视,让这本书更具现实意义,也促使我反思当今世界依然存在的各种不平等和隔阂。
评分这本书也让我对“未来”产生了更多的思考。通过回顾人类过去漫长的发展历程,我更能理解当今世界所面临的挑战和机遇。全球化进程还在继续,技术革新日新月异,不同文化之间的互动也变得更加频繁。然而,伴随而来的也有新的问题,比如数字鸿沟、文化冲突、环境危机等等。这本书提供了一个宝贵的历史视角,让我能够以更长远的眼光去审视这些问题,并思考人类文明未来的发展方向。它让我意识到,理解过去,是更好地面对未来的关键。
评分总而言之,《Worlds Together, Worlds Apart》是一部让我受益匪浅的书。它不仅拓宽了我的历史视野,也深化了我对人类社会发展规律的理解。作者通过对“together”与“apart”这两个核心概念的深入探讨,展现了人类文明发展过程中复杂而动态的互动关系。这本书的价值,不仅仅在于其知识的广度和深度,更在于它所引发的思考和对世界观的塑造。它是一本值得反复阅读和深入体味的著作,它会让你重新审视自己与这个世界的联系。
评分作为一名对历史和全球化议题有着浓厚兴趣的读者,当我第一次接触到《Worlds Together, Worlds Apart》这个书名时,便被它所蕴含的宏大叙事所吸引。这本书并非那种枯燥乏味的历史教科书,而是以一种引人入胜的方式,将人类文明的漫长发展历程呈现在我的眼前。作者并非简单地罗列事实和年代,而是深入挖掘了不同文化、不同地区之间错综复杂的联系和互动。从早期人类的迁徙到现代世界的全球化浪潮,这本书都在试图解答一个核心问题:世界是如何一步步“聚集”在一起的?读的过程中,我仿佛穿越了时空,亲身感受了丝绸之路上的驼铃声,见证了地理大发现带来的碰撞与融合,也体会了工业革命如何彻底改变了人类社会的面貌。
评分从学术的角度来看,《Worlds Together, Worlds Apart》展现了作者深厚的学术功底和广阔的视野。他对各种历史资料的运用驾轻就熟,并且能够从中提炼出具有普遍意义的洞见。更重要的是,作者并非满足于传统的史学研究,而是积极地吸收跨学科的知识,将社会学、人类学、经济学等领域的理论融入到自己的分析之中。这使得这本书的论证更加严谨,结论也更具说服力。读完之后,我感觉自己的知识体系得到了极大的拓展,对于理解世界运行的规律也有了更深刻的认识。
评分《Worlds Together, Worlds Apart》的叙事结构也极其巧妙。它并非按照线性时间顺序进行,而是通过主题式的章节,将不同时期、不同地区的事件有机地联系起来。这种编排方式,让我在阅读时能够更清晰地看到历史发展的脉络和因果关系。例如,当作者探讨15世纪之后全球贸易网络的形成时,会将欧洲的扩张、亚洲的商品以及非洲的人力资源紧密地联系在一起,展现了一个更加立体和全面的全球经济图景。这种非线性叙事,也鼓励我进行更深入的思考,不再仅仅是被动接受信息,而是主动去构建属于自己的历史理解框架。
评分本书的一大亮点在于其对“连接”和“隔绝”辩证关系的深刻揭示。它不仅讲述了人类如何通过贸易、迁徙、思想交流等方式将世界“together”,也探讨了地理、政治、宗教等因素如何导致了不同群体之间的“apart”。这种双重视角,让我看到了人类历史发展的复杂性和多面性。例如,当作者描述古代文明之间的交流时,会提到那些推动了技术和文化的传播;但同时,他也会指出那些由于海洋、山脉或其他障碍而产生的隔绝,以及这些隔绝如何塑造了不同文明独特的面貌。
评分对于我这样一个非专业历史研究者来说,《Worlds Together, Worlds Apart》最宝贵的地方在于它能够以一种易于理解的方式,将如此宏大和复杂的主题呈现出来。书中并没有使用过于晦涩的专业术语,而是用清晰流畅的语言,引导我一步步地进入到历史的深层。作者的叙事风格更像是与一位博学的朋友在交流,他耐心地解答我的疑问,并且不断地激发我的好奇心。这种循序渐进的阅读体验,让我能够真正地享受学习的过程,而不是感到任何压力。
评分这本书最让我震撼的地方在于它对“世界”概念的重新定义。它并非将世界视为一个个孤立的单元,而是强调其内在的相互依存性和动态演变性。这种全球性的视角,让我得以跳出自己所处的狭小空间,去理解不同民族、不同国家在历史长河中的共同经历和相互影响。例如,书中对早期农业文明的起源和传播的探讨,就生动地展示了技术的进步和思想的交流是如何跨越地理界限,推动人类社会整体向前发展的。更不用说,它对宗教、哲学、艺术等精神层面的传播和演变也进行了深入的剖析,揭示了人类共享的智慧和情感如何在不同文化之间传递,塑造着我们的共同认知。
评分《Worlds Together, Worlds Apart》的文字表达也极具感染力。作者善于运用生动的语言和丰富的细节,将抽象的历史概念具象化。读到关于某个历史事件的描述时,我仿佛置身其中,能够感受到当时人们的情感和挣扎。例如,在描述工业革命对城市生活的影响时,作者生动地描绘了工厂烟囱林立的景象,以及由此带来的社会变迁和人文困境。这种文字的力量,让历史不再是冰冷的文字,而是鲜活的生命体验。它让我在了解历史的同时,也更能体会到人类在不同时代所面临的挑战和所付出的努力。
评分作为教科书还是称职的。
评分作为教科书还是称职的。
评分作为教科书还是称职的。
评分作为教科书还是称职的。
评分作为教科书还是称职的。
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