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Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) was a pioneer in the academic study of myth in its historical and archaeological context, and was also one of the first women to make a full-time career as an academic. In her introduction to this book (1903), making the point that 'Greek religion' was usually studied using the surviving literary retellings of myths and legends, she states: 'The ...(展开全部)

This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba. Unlike previous studies, equal attention is paid to similarities and differences in their sociopolitical organization, economic sys...(展开全部)

This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba. Unlike previous studies, equal attention is paid to similarities and differences in their sociopolitical organization, economic sys...(展开全部)

This book guides students through all the central historical concepts, theories, methods and problems confronting those engaged in the serious study of history.

This collection of readings sets out the two fundamental distinctions between common and civil law, namely that the former originated in the English courts, the latter in the Roman legal tradition, and that the common law is based on judicial decisions whereas codes form the basis of modern civil law. The core of the book consists of cases, statutes and code provisions shaping ...(展开全部)

This groundbreaker by one of the premier historians of this century takes an anti-ethnocentric approach to the history of civilizations. This book focuses on the broad sweep of history rather than on the famous events. It covers historical developments in almost every corner of the globe, from the Muslim world and the Far East to Europe and the Americas. Includes maps.

作者简介 任博克（Brook Ziporyn），美国汉学家与哲学家，曾先后任职或授课于美国密歇根大学、哈佛大学、新加坡国立大学等，现任教于芝加哥大学神学院。任博克的主要研究方向为：道家思想、天台宗思想、中西哲学比较等，他发表了百余篇论文及多本汉学著作，在当代美国庄学研究及天台宗思想研究方面成绩斐然。任博克近年主要著作有《善与恶：天台佛教思想中的遍中整体论、交互主体性与价值吊诡》《解缚之半影：郭象的新道家哲学》《一与异之外：前新儒学时期中国思想中的“理”与连贯成形》等。 译者简介 彭荣，哲学博士，浙江师范大学马克思主义学院讲师，主要研究方向为宋明理学，主持国家社科基金青年项目“吕祖谦道学思想研究”，校点《考亭渊源录》，发表论文若干。

Explores the development of Chinese thought, highlighting its concern with questions of coherence. Providing a bracing expansion of horizons, this book displays the unsuspected range of human thinking on the most basic categories of experience. The way in which early Chinese thinkers approached concepts such as one and many, sameness and difference, self and other, and internal...(展开全部)

Critical and historical study of European writers and theorists of socialism who set the stage for the Russian Revolution of 1917, by Edmund Wilson. It was published in book form in 1940 although much of the material had previously appeared in The New Republic. The work discusses European socialism, anarchism, and various theories of revolution from their origins to their imple...(展开全部)