托马斯·特劳特曼（Thomas R. Trautmann），美国历史学家、文化人类学家，密歇根大学历史与人类学荣休教授，曾任密歇根大学历史系主任和南亚研究中心主任。1997—2006年，担任《社会与历史比较研究》（Comparative Studies in Society and History）主编。著有《大象与国王：一部环境史》（Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History，2015年）、《语言与国家》（Languages and Nations，2006年）、《雅利安人与英属印度》（Aryans and British India，2004年）。 特劳特曼的研究主要集中在古代印度历史、人类学史和其他相关学科，尤其专精于研究古印度梵语论典。他还撰写了有关印度达罗毗荼人亲属关系和美国印第安人亲属关系的...(展开全部)

India: Brief History of a Civilization provides a brief overview of a very long period, allowing students to acquire a mental map of the entire history of Indian civilization in a short book. Most comprehensive histories devote a few chapters to the early history of India and an increasing number of pages to the more recent period, giving an impression that early history is mer...(展开全部)

This brief, best-selling Western civilization book has helped thousands of readers learn about the world they live in by exploring the story of its past. Jack Spielvogel's engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. Ea...(展开全部)

This brief, best-selling Western civilization book has helped thousands of readers learn about the world they live in by exploring the story of its past. Jack Spielvogel's engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. Ea...(展开全部)

赫尔曼·库尔克 基尔大学亚洲史教授。著有《国王和祭仪：印度和东南亚的国家形成和合法化》（Kings and Cults:State Formation and Legitimation in India and Southeast Asia) (1993）等 迪特玛尔·罗特蒙特 海德堡大学南亚研究所历史学教授和负责人。著有《印度经济史》（An Economic History of India)(1993)和《1929-1939年大萧条的全球影响》（The Global Impact of the Great Depression,1929-1939) (1996)等。

Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authoritative account of the major political, economic, social and cultural forces that have shaped the history of the Indian subcontinent. Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund provide a comprehensive overview of the structural pattern of Indian history, covering eac...(展开全部)

This new edition of Burton Stein's classic A History of India builds on the success of the original to provide an updated narrative of the development of Indian society, culture, and politics from 7000 BC to the present. New edition of Burton Stein’s classic text provides a narrative from 7000 BC up to the twenty-first century Includes updated and extended coverage of the moder...(展开全部)

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news r...(展开全部)

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news r...(展开全部)

The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It’s easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world ov...(展开全部)