Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland

Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland

This is a rich and broadranging account of the Asia-Pacific campaigns of WWII. Drawing on recently released documents in US and British archives, Douglas Ford explores why the belligerents in the Pacific war fought the way that they did. This book focuses not only on the battlefield level, but also provides a perspective from the military high command, government, and non-comba...(展开全部)

What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms. The Clash of Empires ...(展开全部)

What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms. The Clash of Empires ...(展开全部)

What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms. The Clash of Empires ...(展开全部)

The break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed events in modern history. The unravelling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions. It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia and reverberates to this day in conflicts throughout the Caucasus and Mi...(展开全部)

作者 布赖恩·M.费根（Brian M. Fagan） 世界顶级的考古学家，也是国际公认的世界史前史研究权威。 费根出生于英国伯明翰，曾在剑桥大学彭布罗克学院学习考古学，是美国加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉分校荣誉退休教授。著有多部畅销书和考古学专业大学教科书，并主编了《牛津考古学指南》。曾获美国考古学协会“公共教育奖”“主席嘉许奖”，专业考古学家学会“杰出服务奖”。目前国内已引进的作品包括《世界史前史》《考古学入门》《床的人类史》《小冰河时代》《考古学与史前文明》《掠夺尼罗河》《洪水、饥馑与帝王》《大暖化》等。 译者 乔苏婷 历史学博士，毕业于北京大学考古文博学院。爱好文字工作，曾担任人文领域公众交流平台栏目编辑。

In Europe it was called the Age of Discovery. To the rest of the world, it often meant slavery, epidemic disease, cultural genocide, and wholesale social and economic changes. What happened in the period when Europe first came in contact with the rest of the world? In this new edition of Brian Fagan's Clash of Cultures, the best-selling author offers a series of fascinating cas...(展开全部)

作者 布赖恩·M.费根（Brian M. Fagan） 世界顶级的考古学家，也是国际公认的世界史前史研究权威。 费根出生于英国伯明翰，曾在剑桥大学彭布罗克学院学习考古学，是美国加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉分校荣誉退休教授。著有多部畅销书和考古学专业大学教科书，并主编了《牛津考古学指南》。曾获美国考古学协会“公共教育奖”“主席嘉许奖”，专业考古学家学会“杰出服务奖”。目前国内已引进的作品包括《世界史前史》《考古学入门》《床的人类史》《小冰河时代》《考古学与史前文明》《掠夺尼罗河》《洪水、饥馑与帝王》《大暖化》等。 译者 乔苏婷 历史学博士，毕业于北京大学考古文博学院。爱好文字工作，曾担任人文领域公众交流平台栏目编辑。