検索キーワード： 19世紀

現代の格差社会と民主主義のルーツは、蒸気と鉄が支配する19世紀イギリスの光と影の中に隠されています。毎日の通勤や夜のリラックスタイムに、世界史の転換点となる壮大な歴史ドラマへと深く没入してみませんか。...

Little has been written about the strangely obscured figure of Meiji himself, the first Japanese emperor ever to meet a European. But now, Donald Keene sifts the available evidence to present a rich portrait not only of Meiji but also of rapid and sometimes violent change during this pivotal period in Japan's history. Emperor of Japan conveys in sparkling prose the complexity of the man and offers an unrivaled portrait of Japan in a period of unique interest.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson's vividly told A Little History of the United States.

How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious and fascinating genealogy of the idea. "The West" was not used by Plato, Cicero, Locke, Mill, or other canonized figures of what we today call the Western tradition. It was not first wielded by empire-builders.

Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success. Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation’s worst crisis in the “coping...

The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps tells the thrilling story of the Shinsengumi - the legendary corps of Samurai warriors tasked with keeping order in Kyoto during the final chaotic years of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868).

伝統的な幕藩体制から近代国家へ、わずか一世代で成し遂げられた激動のパラダイムシフトの全貌と歴史のうねりを鮮やかに解き明かします。幕末の動揺から新政府の樹立、そして憲法制定に至る怒涛の展開は、あなたの...

Van Gogh is a vivid portrait of the great Impressionist painter that traces his life from the Netherlands, where he was born into a family of art dealers, through his years in England, the Hague, and Paris, to his final home in Arles, where he discovered the luminous style of his late paintings before his suicide at the age of thirty-seven.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of narrative history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in 19th-century Edo-period...

1815年、ヨーロッパの覇権を懸けた諸国連合と没落する英雄の激突を描く軍事史の傑作で、運命の分かれ道となった決戦の全貌を圧倒的な臨場感とともにあなたの耳にお届けします。毎日の通勤時間や一人静かに集中した...

当震耳欲聋的机器轰鸣打破传统田园的宁静，一场重塑全球格局的工业化浪潮正以不可阻挡之势席卷十九世纪的英国，将人类强行推入现代社会的快车道。这不仅是一段跌宕起伏的欧洲史，更是一面折射当代生活根基的镜子。...

The fateful quarter century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change to that point...

The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War.

ヨーロッパ辺境の脆弱な小国がいかにして強大なドイツ帝国を主導する覇権国家へと変貌を遂げたのか、生存を賭けた国家建設と緻密な外交戦略の軌跡を紐解く本格的な歴史ドキュメンタリー。毎日の通勤時間や静かな夜...

当狂热的跨国资本扩张与失控的信贷泡沫轰然相撞，这场席卷全球的经济大崩盘彻底改写了大国博弈的版图与普通人的财富命运。1873年，从维也纳到纽约，多米诺骨牌般的市场崩塌让看似完美的金本位全球化体系瞬间停摆，...

The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created. Napoleon's ultimate defeat was to determine the history of Europe for almost 100 years. From the frozen wastelands of Russia, through the brutal fighting in the Peninsula to the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo, this book tells the story of the dramatic rise and fall of the Napoleonic Empire.

19世紀のアイルランドを崩壊させたジャガイモ疫病は単なる自然災害ではなく、冷酷な政治と経済政策が引き起こした凄惨な人為的悲劇であり、本作は約2時間でその歴史的メカニズムを鮮明に解き明かします。深く物思い...

19世紀の帝国主義が広大な大陸の地図を無慈悲に引き直した激動の時代と、誇り高き現地社会による命がけの抵抗の歴史が交錯する、息詰まる政治劇の全貌を紐解きます。毎日の通勤時間や夜の静かなリラックスタイムに...

熱狂的な投資と信用の膨張がドミノ倒しのように崩壊した1873年、この歴史的な金融危機が暴き出すお金と権力の残酷な力学が、今の社会の成り立ちを浮き彫りにします。通勤電車の窓枠を流れる現代の景色が、19世紀のパ...

 The Enlightenment That Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-1820) in numerous countries, especially in Europe, North America, and Spanish America, ultimately failed.