The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of 'empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. While the central focus is on historiography, other related fields are also explored: geography and cartography, epigraphy, art and architecture, and, more generally, political...(展开全部)

The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of 'empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. While the central focus is on historiography, other related fields are also explored: geography and cartography, epigraphy, art and architecture, and, more generally, political...(展开全部)

For many years, China and India have been powerfully shaped by both transnational and subnational circulatory forces. This edited volume explores these local and global influences as they play out in the contemporary era. The analysis focuses on four intersecting topics: labor relations; legal reform and rights protest; public goods provision; and transnational migration and in...(展开全部)

Two thousand years ago, up to one-half of the human species was contained within two political systems, the Roman empire in western Eurasia (centered on the Mediterranean Sea) and the Han empire in eastern Eurasia (centered on the great North China Plain). Both empires were broadly comparable in terms of size and population, and even largely coextensive in chronological terms (...(展开全部)

"Books XXXI to XLV" cover the years from 201 B.C. to 167 B.C., when Rome emerged as ruler of the Mediterranean.

黄宗智，美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校历史系教授，中国研究中心创办主任（1986-1995年）。《近代中国》季刊（Moden China）创办编辑（1975年至今）。主要著作有：《华北的小农经济与社会变迁》，中华书局，1986年版（2000年重版）；《长江三角洲小农家庭与乡村发展》，中华书局，1992年版（2000年重版）等。

黄宗智，美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校历史系教授，中国研究中心创办主任（1986-1995年）。《近代中国》季刊（Moden China）创办编辑（1975年至今）。主要著作有：《华北的小农经济与社会变迁》，中华书局，1986年版（2000年重版）；《长江三角洲小农家庭与乡村发展》，中华书局，1992年版（2000年重版）等。

Ancient Rome is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Focusing on six turning points in Roman history, Simon Baker's absorbing narrative charts the rise and fall of a political machine unmatched in its brutality, genius, and lust for power. From the conquest of the Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC to the destruction of the empire at the hands of barbaria...(展开全部)