Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women's and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand women's relationship to world developments over the past five hundred years. Women have served the world as unfree people, often forced to migrate as slaves, trafficked sex workers, and in...(展开全部)

Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women's and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand women's relationship to world developments over the past five hundred years. Women have served the world as unfree people, often forced to migrate as slaves, trafficked sex workers, and in...(展开全部)

A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of historical events that have shaped the last two centuries of the African continent. Stresses the diversity of Africa’s rich variety of people, societies, cultures and religious beliefs Provides a thought-provoking and illuminating journey through the slave trade and colonization to the rise of Islam, struggles for independ...(展开全部)

Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2 nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries. Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamic...(展开全部)

吉莉安•莱利，英国当代著名美食作家，知名食物史研究者，意大利美食的忠实拥趸。毕业于剑桥大学历史专业的她，某次去意大利公干时，却不可救药地爱上了当地美食，并从此矢志不渝。她已出版了多部关于美食和饮食文化史的著作。

Designed for use at the college level as a textbook for military history courses or supplemental reading for world history courses, this text offers an introduction and original synthesis of global military history. Each chapter traces key developments in military institutions and practices set in three crucial contexts: politics and institutions; social structures and economic...(展开全部)

Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists. She examines the nature of rape, drawing together the work of criminologists, sociologists and psychiatrists to analyse what drives the perpetrators of sexual violence. Rape - A History looks at the perception of rape, both in the ...(展开全部)

作者：(英)杰弗瑞·杰里柯(Geoffrey) 苏珊·杰里柯 译者：刘滨谊

Essential Reading for landscape architects, and should become a textbook for everyone interested in the philosophy and practice or environental improvement… Clearly this book is a major environmental event' –Design 'An astonishingly clear study of the man-made landscape of the world, its beginnings, its history and its future'' – Daily Telegraph The Compass of this excellent bo...(展开全部)