This is the first book in English to relate the history of Damascus, bringing out the crucial role the city has played at many points in the region's past. Damascus traces the history of this colourful, significant and complex city through its physical development, from the city's emergence in around 7000 BC through the changing cavalcade of Aramaean, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byz...(展开全部)

Lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs and original plans, "Damascus" provides for the first time in English a compelling and unique exploration of a fascinating city. "Damascus" traces the story of this colourful, significant and complex city through its physical development, from its obscure origins in the Bronze Age through the changing cavalcade of Aramaean, Persia...(展开全部)

罗斯•伯恩斯（Ross Burns） 澳大利亚麦考瑞大学教授，牛津大学东方学院助理研究员，主要从事古典史、古代城市史等领域的研究，著有《叙利亚古迹》《阿勒颇：一部历史》等作品。他曾在外交部门工作多年，1980年代中期曾任澳大利亚驻叙利亚大使，对这片古老的土地有着深厚的感情。因此，他的作品既体现出学者的扎实与严谨，又融入了多年来的亲身经历与直观感受，形成了自己独特的风格。

罗斯•伯恩斯（Ross Burns） 澳大利亚麦考瑞大学教授，牛津大学东方学院助理研究员，主要从事古典史、古代城市史等领域的研究，著有《叙利亚古迹》《阿勒颇：一部历史》等作品。他曾在外交部门工作多年，1980年代中期曾任澳大利亚驻叙利亚大使，对这片古老的土地有着深厚的感情。因此，他的作品既体现出学者的扎实与严谨，又融入了多年来的亲身经历与直观感受，形成了自己独特的风格。

黄仁宇，生于湖南长沙，1936年入天津南开大学电机工程系就读。抗日战争爆发后，先在长沙《抗日战报》工作，后来进入国民党成都中央军校，1950年退伍。其后赴美攻读历史，获学士、硕士、博士学位。曾任哥伦比亚大学访问副教授及哈佛大学东亚研究所研究员。参与《明代名人传》及《剑桥中国史》的集体研究工作。

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism? Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation, it has been continually redefined as new generations of women campaign against the gend...(展开全部)

黄仁宇，生于湖南长沙，1936年入天津南开大学电机工程系就读。抗日战争爆发后，先在长沙《抗日战报》工作，后来进入国民党成都中央军校，1950年退伍。其后赴美攻读历史，获学士、硕士、博士学位。曾任哥伦比亚大学访问副教授及哈佛大学东亚研究所研究员。参与《明代名人传》及《剑桥中国史》的集体研究工作。

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of wr...(展开全部)