Incorporating the latest scholarly research, the third edition of A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000–323 BC presents a comprehensive overview of the multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East. Integrates the most up-to-date research, and includes a richer selection of supplementary materials Addresses the wide variety of political, social, and cultural develo...(展开全部)

This book presents a clear, concise history of the extraordinary multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East. Bestselling narrative of the complex history of the ancient Near East Addresses political, social, and cultural developments Contains in-depth discussion of key texts and sources, including the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh Includes numerous maps, illustrat...(展开全部)

From Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step to the Red Sea and eastward across the Euphrates to the Tigris. This work of interpretive history examines this world as it was forged into the Roman provinces of Judea, Arabia, Mesopotamia and Syria, conveying the sweep of history as well as the diversity of peoples, religions and languages t...(展开全部)

The people in ancient times the phenomenal world was teeming with life; the thunderclap, the sudden shadow, the unknown and eerie clearing in the wood, all were living things. This unabridged edition traces the fascinating history of thought from the pre-scientific, personal concept of a "humanized" world to the achievement of detached intellectual reasoning. The authors descr...(展开全部)

‘History clings tight but it also kicks loose,’ writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain’s past. ‘Disruption as much as persistence is its proper subject. So although the great theme of British history seen from the twentieth century is endurance, its counter-point, seen from the twenty-first, must be alteration.’ C...(展开全部)

In "Near a Thousand Tables, " acclaimed food historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary history -- a window on the history of mankind.In this "appetizingly provocative" "(Los Angeles Times)" book, he guides readers through the eight great revolutions in the world history of food: the origins of cooking, which set human...(展开全部)

由英国学者鲁唯一（Michael Loewe）与美国汉学家夏含夷（Edward L.Shaughnessy）等人所编著的《剑桥中国上古史：从文明的起源到公元前221年》（The Cambridge History of Ancient China：From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C.）已经于1999年由英国剑桥大学出版社出版发行。尽管迄今为止该书中译本仍未面世而不免使人有遗珠之憾，但该书不仅反映了西方数代汉学家所秉持的迥异的研究方法与理论素养而具有相当的学术性与可读性。而且该书的分析视角和学术思路也值得在中国先秦史研究中加以镜鉴，从而开拓并深入中国的先秦史研究的内容与视界。 该书内容翔实而不仅仅是对史料的简单汇编，全书恰好地将传世文献资料和考古文物资料互为补充，基本上对中国先秦时代的主要领域和研究动...(展开全部)

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a G...(展开全部)

A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists. Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Sp...(展开全部)

A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists. Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Sp...(展开全部)