The definitive history of Roman Britain In the first major narative history of the subject in more than a generation, David Mattingly brings life in Britain during four hundred years of Roman domination into vivid relief. Drawing on a wealth of new research and cutting through the myths and misunderstandings that commonly surround most perceptions of Roman Britain, An Imper...(展开全部)

The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approach...(展开全部)

The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approach...(展开全部)

This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire. Covers both mainstream Graeco-Roman religion and regional religious traditions, from Egypt to Western Europe Examines the shared assumptions and underlying dynamics that characterized religious life as a whole Draws on a wide range of primary material, both textual and visual, from literary...(展开全部)

A massive crowd of people, cloaked in the colors of their beloved athletes, slowly fill a 150,000-seat arena to cheer on their favorite teams. Athletes enter the stadium amid great pomp and circumstance as opposing fans hurl insults at one another and place bets on the day's outcome. Although this familiar scene might describe a contemporary football game, it also portrays a da...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·布赖斯（1838-1922），出生于北爱尔兰，是一位学识博洽，见解深邃的历史学家，同时还是一位政治理论家和政治活动家。除出版《神圣罗马帝国》一书奠定其学术地位，为其树立了历史家的地位以外，他发表的《美利坚共和国》也极负盛名，被视为外国人论述美国的经典著作之一。此外，所著《现代民主制度》也使作者享有盛誉。

Friedrich Heer is a distinguished Austrian, Catholic, intellectual historian. In this work he reveals all of these identifying tags. No Notrh German, Protestant historian could be completely satisfied with Heer’s study. No historian seeking solid, substantive, text-book type of factual information will be completely satisfied. This is not a History of Germany; it is not even a ...(展开全部)

A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in "A Turn to Empire", Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as unjust, as well as politically and economically disastrous for the conquering ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 珍妮弗·皮茨，美国普林斯顿大学政治系助理教授，《阿列克西?德?托克维尔：有关帝国与奴隶制的著作》一书的编辑和译者。 封 底 语： 珍妮弗.皮茨……通过展示18世纪和19世纪早期杰出的英法自由主义者对于帝国主义的深刻批判，表明了对帝国主义的支持并非自由主义所固有的特征。……该书行文优美，治学不同凡响。 ——《选择》（Choice） 每一页都体现了研究的深度、通俗易懂的文风和敏锐的才思，该书是一个布局均衡且天衣无缝的整体，揭示了帝国对于现代自由主义起源的影响。它不仅对政治理论家来说是一部头等重要的著作，对哲学、历史及文学读者而言也同样如此。 ——大卫.阿米蒂奇，哈佛大学，《大英帝国的意识形态起源》（The Ideological Origins of the British Empire）的作者 这本内容丰富、促人思考的著作，审视了一个目前...(展开全部)