In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of Congress from the seemingly entrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India's huge advances in technology and the country's new role as a major player in world ...(展开全部)

In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of Congress from the seemingly entrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India's huge advances in technology and the country's new role as a major player in world ...(展开全部)

Comprehensive, authoritative, highly readable and generously illustrated, Herbert Read's text has been rightly acknowledged as "by far the best introduction to the subject" (Alan Bowness) and "throughout, lively and closely packed" (Hugh Casson). Here is modern painting from its roots in the work of Cezanne, through Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada in the early decades of ...(展开全部)

Comprehensive, authoritative, highly readable and generously illustrated, Herbert Read's text has been rightly acknowledged as "by far the best introduction to the subject" (Alan Bowness) and "throughout, lively and closely packed" (Hugh Casson). Here is modern painting from its roots in the work of Cezanne, through Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada in the early decades of ...(展开全部)

Drawing on the knowledge of a lifetime of study, and the understanding of one who himself participated in the creative adventure of modern art, the late Sir Herbert Read traces the development of modern sculpture from Rodin to the present day and brings order into the apparently chaotic proliferation of styles and techniques during this period. 339 illus., 49 in color.

This new edition of Burton Stein's classic A History of India builds on the success of the original to provide an updated narrative of the development of Indian society, culture, and politics from 7000 BC to the present. New edition of Burton Stein’s classic text provides a narrative from 7000 BC up to the twenty-first century Includes updated and extended coverage of the moder...(展开全部)

赫尔曼·库尔克 基尔大学亚洲史教授。著有《国王和祭仪：印度和东南亚的国家形成和合法化》（Kings and Cults:State Formation and Legitimation in India and Southeast Asia) (1993）等 迪特玛尔·罗特蒙特 海德堡大学南亚研究所历史学教授和负责人。著有《印度经济史》（An Economic History of India)(1993)和《1929-1939年大萧条的全球影响》（The Global Impact of the Great Depression,1929-1939) (1996)等。

Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authoritative account of the major political, economic, social and cultural forces that have shaped the history of the Indian subcontinent. Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund provide a comprehensive overview of the structural pattern of Indian history, covering eac...(展开全部)

布雷特·L. 沃克是蒙大拿城市大学（波兹曼）杰出教授，迈克尔·马隆历史学教授，主要研究领域为环境史，医学史，日本近现代史，以及比较全球史。除本书外，还著有《疾病的家族史》（2017）、《毒岛：日本工业病史》（2010）、《日本狼的灭绝》(2005)等多部英、日文专著。其主要作品被译为日文、中文、西班牙文和葡萄牙文等多种文字。

This revised edition of a comprehensive single-volume Australian history reference incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary debate on relevant issues. In addition to frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations, the volume covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the "Pacific solution."