Despite its 3,000 kilometre coastline, few people see Vietnam as a maritime country. Here Li Tana presents a powerful new argument about Vietnamese history: that key political changes resulted from the impact, economic and otherwise, of the sea. This is a finely layered account covering the two millennia before colonisation that radically restructures how we understand the role...(展开全部)

Although the history of technological and scientific illustrations is a well-established field in the West, scholarship on the much longer Chinese experience is still undeveloped. This work by Peter Golas is a short, illustrated overview tracing the subject to pre-Han inscriptions but focusing mainly on the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. His main theme is that technologi...(展开全部)

No country’s past can match Egypt’s in antiquity, richness, and variety. Rarely, however, is this nation’s history presented as a comprehensive panorama, since scholars tend to divide it into distinct eras―pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, medieval Islamic, Ottoman, and modern―that are rarely studied in connection to each other, despite the strong elements of continuity running t...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 [埃及] 杰森·汤普森（Jason Thompson） 美国科尔比学院教授，埃及知名历史学家，对埃及史的研究广博而深入，以讲述通俗历史而著名。著有《加德纳·威尔金森爵士和他的圈子》（Sir Cardiner Wilkinson and His Circle），编有《埃及谈》（Description of Egypt）《漫谈现代埃及人的风俗文化》（An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians）等作品。 —————————— 【译者简介】 刘梦迪 苏州大学外国语学院英语翻译硕士，利物浦大学社会语言学博士在读，研究方向为多语、语言与身份构建、翻译理论与实践、中国文化翻译与对外传播。

No one has hitherto had the breadth of imagination and intellectual boldness to describe and analyse government throughout recorded history and throughout the world. This unique study of government is the culmination of the work of the late S. E. Finer, one of the leading political scientists of the twentieth century. Ranging over 5,000 years, from the Sumerian city state to th...(展开全部)

China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared s...(展开全部)

China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared s...(展开全部)

Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, the nineteenth century confronted the consequences of its media shifts in ways that still define contemporary responses. In this authoritative new work, Paul Fyfe argues that writing ...(展开全部)

J. F. C. 富勒（1878－1966），全名约翰·弗雷德里克·查尔斯·富勒（John Frederick Charles Fuller），英国将军，享誉世界的战略大师、军事历史学家、军事理论家，机械化战争理论的创始人之一。《西洋世界军事史》、《战争指导》等是其代表作。 1899年开始服役，参加过英布战争；第一次世界大战中随英国远征军赴法国参战；1916年担任坦克军参谋长；1917年在康布雷之战中使用坦克获得成功；1918年在拟制《1919年计划》时，提出了建立和使用机械化军队的新观点；1922年任英国坎伯利参谋学院主任教官；1926年任英帝国陆军总参谋长军事助理 ；1929 年任旅长 ；1930 年晋升为陆军少将 ；1933 年退役。 此后，富勒出任伦敦《每日邮报》记者，并长期致力于军事历史研究和军事理论著述，富勒一生出版有 45部军事著作，其...(展开全部)

阿尔贝·奥古斯特·拉西内（Albert Auguste Racinet，1825—1893）是法国民俗服装学者、纹饰专家、画家和插图画家。拉西内子承父业，从事制图和平板印刷工作。他因临摹复制艺术品的技术娴熟，参与了许多插图和文字作品的手绘及专业制版工作。1878年，他获得法国骑士荣誉勋章。拉西内参与绘制并担当艺术总监的作品主要有《日本陶瓷制造术》《中世纪和文艺复兴》《奢华艺术》《18世纪彼得·萨尔蒂科夫的考古藏品》等，他作为《多彩装饰》《历史上的服装》两部重要著作的作者而闻名于世。