This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c.150 and c.750 A.D., came to differ from 'Classical civilization'. These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deep-rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the ...(展开全部)

This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750, came to differ from "Classical civilization." These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the P...(展开全部)

Covering Western costume from Ancient Egypt to contemporary haute couture, this is a fully illustrated companion volume to John Peacock's "Fashion Sourcebooks". The last 4000 years has seen an astonishing variety of ways in which the human form can be dressed, from the relative simplicity of the ancient world, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the changing conventions ...(展开全部)

Having drawn a startlingly prescient portrait of the Bosnian catastrophe in his bestseller, Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan now travels more widely and ambitiously. In this gritty tour de force of travel writing and political reportage, he covers an arc from West Africa to Southeast Asia, across a world in which nation-states are giving way to warring nationalities and where metas...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 罗伯特·D.卡普兰（Robert D. Kaplan，1952—）美国著名地缘政治专家，18本外交政策和游记类畅销书作者，两度被《外交政策》评为“全球100位顶尖思想者”之一。他的作品影响了克林顿和小布什两任美国总统的军事决策，《大西洋月刊》资深主笔、知名记者，现任欧亚集团高级顾问，曾任新美国安全中心高级研究员和美国五角大楼国防政策委员会委员。 卡普兰游历了近70个国家和地区，对世界政治局势和地缘政治深有体会，擅长运用游记的写作手法处理新闻和政治议题，其作品兼具文学性与地缘政治分析的严肃性，他与塞缪尔·亨廷顿、保罗·肯尼迪和弗朗西斯·福山并称“被最广泛阅读的描绘后冷战世界的作家”。其代表作有《无政府时代的来临》《巴尔干两千年》《季风》《即将到来的地缘战争》《世界的尽头》《东进鞑靼》《马可 ·波罗世界的回归》《荒野帝国》等。 ··· 【译...(展开全部)

Iran often appears in the media as a hostile and difficult country. But beneath the headlines there is a fascinating story of a nation of great intellectual variety and depth, and enormous cultural importance. A nation whose impact has been tremendous, not only on its neighbours in the Middle East but on the world as a whole - and through ideas and creativity rather than by the...(展开全部)

This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary trajectories of society from the last Palaeolithic hunting-gathering groups, through Neolithic farming villages and on to the Bronze Age Shang dynasty in the latter half of the second ...(展开全部)

This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary trajectories of society from the last Paleolithic hunting-gathering groups, through Neolithic farming villages, and on to the Bronze Age Shang dynasty in the latter half of the second ...(展开全部)