The enormous size of the Roman empire and the length of time it endured call for an understanding of the institutions which sustained it. In this book, Keith Hopkins, who is both classicist and sociologist, uses various sociological concepts and methods to gain new insights into how traditional Roman institutions changed as the Romans acquired their empire. He examines the chai...(展开全部)

The enormous size of the Roman empire and the length of time it endured call for an understanding of the institutions which sustained it. In this book, Keith Hopkins, who is both classicist and sociologist, uses various sociological concepts and methods to gain new insights into how traditional Roman institutions changed as the Romans acquired their empire. He examines the chai...(展开全部)

"The Conquerors" describes the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communists in the Cantonese revolution of the 1920s. It is both an exciting war story and a gallery of intellectual portraits: a ruthless Bolshevik revolutionary, a disillusioned master of propaganda, a powerful Chinese pacifist, and a young anarchist. Each of these "conquerors" will be crushed by the revolu...(展开全部)

威廉·麦克尼尔（William H. McNeill，1917-2016），美国芝加哥大学历史学荣休教授，当代具有影响力的历史学家，被誉为20世纪60年代之后全球史研究的“关键奠基人”，曾获“伊拉斯谟奖”“美国国家图书奖”“世界史先驱奖”等多项殊荣。一生著作等身，代表作有《西方的兴起：人类共同体的历史》《瘟疫与人：传染病对人类历史的冲击》《竞逐富强：西方军事的现代化历程》等。 任一，宾夕法尼亚大学历史系在读博士，研究方向为中国近现代史、跨国史。曾在《史学集刊》、Frontiers of History in China以及Twentieth-Century China等期刊发表多篇论文。

威廉·麦克尼尔（William H. McNeill，1917-2016），美国芝加哥大学历史学荣休教授，当代具有影响力的历史学家，被誉为20世纪60年代之后全球史研究的“关键奠基人”，曾获“伊拉斯谟奖”“美国国家图书奖”“世界史先驱奖”等多项殊荣。一生著作等身，代表作有《西方的兴起：人类共同体的历史》《瘟疫与人：传染病对人类历史的冲击》《竞逐富强：西方军事的现代化历程》等。 任一，宾夕法尼亚大学历史系在读博士，研究方向为中国近现代史、跨国史。曾在《史学集刊》、Frontiers of History in China以及Twentieth-Century China等期刊发表多篇论文。

莉泽特•科林厄姆（Lizzie Collingham）在剑桥耶稣学院充任访问学者之前，曾在沃威克大学教授历史。她著有《帝国体制：英国统治印度时期的物质经验，1800-1947年》。现在身为自由学者兼作家的她曾在瑞士、德国、奥地利和法国生活过，但仍在寻觅定居之处。 邵文实，文学博士，现为东南大学中文系副教授。教书研习之余，以翻译为乐，迄今已出版的译著有《女性白皮书》、《非常女人》（北方文艺出版社，2000年）、《赢者之师》、《美国悲剧》（昆仑出版社，2001年）、《日本魅影》（鹭江出版社，2006年）等十余部，共计三百余万字。

Curry serves up a delectable history of Indian cuisine, ranging from the imperial kitchen of the Mughal invader Babur to the smoky cookhouse of the British Raj. In this fascinating volume, the first authoritative history of Indian food, Lizzie Collingham reveals that almost every well-known Indian dish is the product of a long history of invasion and the fusion of different foo...(展开全部)

Curry serves up a delectable history of Indian cuisine, ranging from the imperial kitchen of the Mughal invader Babur to the smoky cookhouse of the British Raj. In this fascinating volume, the first authoritative history of Indian food, Lizzie Collingham reveals that almost every well-known Indian dish is the product of a long history of invasion and the fusion of different foo...(展开全部)