There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any cl...(展开全部)

佩里·安德森（PERRY ANDERSON），英国历史学家、社会学家，1938年生于伦敦，现任美国加利福尼亚州立大学洛杉矶分校历史与社会学教授，英国《新左派评论》期刊负责人。《从古代封建主义的过渡》及其续作《绝对主义国家的系谱》出版于1974年（伦敦新左派丛书）是在西方历史学、历史社会学与马克思主义学理论领域有重大影响的生要著作。

The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson’s highly acclaimed and influential Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes take...(展开全部)

菲利普·内莫(Philippe Nemo，1949－），法国当代知名哲学、政治学教授，毕业于法国圣克鲁高师(Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud)，先后任教于图尔大学(Universi te de Tours)和奥吉斯特·孔德学院(Institut Auguste Comte)，现为巴黎高等商学院-欧洲管理学院(ESCP-EAP)的教授。

Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multim...(展开全部)

How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together histor...(展开全部)

Central Asia in ancient and medieval times was the crossroads of civilization, connecting China with the West. What we now call Central Asia was part of the empires conquered by Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Timur, and their successors during antiquity and the Middle Ages. At the turn of the millennium, Central Asia became the Turkish center of rule. After the Turkish expansion, ...(展开全部)

China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared s...(展开全部)