S.A.M.艾兹赫德（S.A.M.Adshead），新西兰坎特伯雷大学历史学资深教材，曾就读于牛津大学、哈佛大学、专攻中国历史，在中国盐政管理研究方面享有世界声誉。除本书外，重要著作有《中国盐政时的现代化》（The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration，1900-1920）、《世界历史中的中亚》（Central Asia in World History，1993）、《欧洲和中国的物质文化：1400-1800》（Material Culture in Europe and China，1400-1800）、《唐代中国：世界历史上的东方崛起》（T'and China：the rise of the east in world history，2004）等。

This new edition provides a new preface to this highly popular book. The theme of the book is China's relations with the non-Chinese world, not only political and economic, but cultural, social and technological as well. It seeks to show that China's history is part of everyone's history. In particular it traces China's relationship since the thirteenth century to the emergent ...(展开全部)

In recent years, scholars have successfully challenged the perception that Chinese civilization, especially in its early phase, existed in isolation with little or no influence from other regions of the world. Similarly, the passive role of Chinese dynasties in their interactions with neighboring societies, emphasized in earlier studies, also has come under serious scrutiny. Ta...(展开全部)

In recent years, scholars have successfully challenged the perception that Chinese civilization, especially in its early phase, existed in isolation with little or no influence from other regions of the world. Similarly, the passive role of Chinese dynasties in their interactions with neighboring societies, emphasized in earlier studies, also has come under serious scrutiny. Ta...(展开全部)

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)

The China Society for People's Friendship Studies (PFS) in cooperation with the Foreign Languages Press (FLP)in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled light on China, of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People's Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolutionary events des...(展开全部)

Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the present. John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has ha...(展开全部)

约翰·艾伯斯John Aberth 英国剑桥大学博士，研究方向为中世纪晚期的黑死病。在美国佛蒙特州多所大学授课。著有《黑死病：1348—1350年大瘟疫》《第一位牧马人：人类历史上的疾病》《末日边缘：中世纪晚期的饥荒、战争与死亡》等。

Emphasizes the major interactions among different peoples and societies. World History in Brief highlights key events in world history, giving adequate treatment to the major issues, while leaving time for analysis and use of supplemental materials for critical thinking. Part of the Penguin Academics Series, the text takes a truly global approach by balancing coverage of indivi...(展开全部)

Literary History in and beyond China: Reading Text and World explores the idea of literary history across the long span of the Chinese tradition. Although much scholarship on Chinese literature may be characterized as doing the work of literary history, there has been little theoretical engagement with received literary historical categories and assumptions, with how literary h...(展开全部)