Walcott's eight collection of poems is divided into two parts -- "There," verse evoking the poet's native Carribbean, and "Elsewhere."

Walcott's eight collection of poems is divided into two parts -- "There," verse evoking the poet's native Carribbean, and "Elsewhere."

"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)

A brilliant global history of the Normans, who—beyond the conquest of England—spread their empire to eventually dominate Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. 14th October 1066. As Harold II, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England, lay dying in Sussex, the Duke of Normandy was celebrating an unlikely victory. William "The Bastard" had emerged from interloper to ...(展开全部)

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)

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。

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)