The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth of luxury trade. It inspired geographical and commercial exploration as traders pursued such common spices as pepper and cinnamon, and rarer aromatic products including ambergris and musk. Ultimately, the spice quest led to imperial missio...(展开全部)

How medieval Europe’s infatuation with expensive, fragrant, and exotic spices led to an era of colonial expansion and the discovery of new worlds The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth of luxury trade. It inspired geographical and commercial exploration ,as traders pursued such...(展开全部)

More than two hundred magnificent, full-color photographs document the enormous productivity of eastern Asia against the background of traditional life and culture. In recent years the economies of eastern Asia have virtually exploded. What started in Japan and Taiwan after World War II and continued in Hong Kong and Korea, has now touched Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand,...(展开全部)

作者简介 尼古拉斯·莫顿(Nicholas Morton ) 英国诺丁汉特伦特大学艺术与人文学院副教授，其研究重点为 10~14 世纪十字军运动和中世纪近东的历史，并就这些主题发表了大量文章。他最新出版的著作是 7eMongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the他还是劳特里Medieval Near East (Basic Books).奇出版社三套世界史相关丛书的主编之一。 译者简介 谭琦 哈尔滨理工大学语言文学硕士，译有《十字军:一部争夺圣地的史诗》《诅咒之塔》《拜占庭的失落之城》《大围攻:马耳他1565》

作者简介 尼古拉斯·莫顿(Nicholas Morton ) 英国诺丁汉特伦特大学艺术与人文学院副教授，其研究重点为 10~14 世纪十字军运动和中世纪近东的历史，并就这些主题发表了大量文章。他最新出版的著作是 7eMongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the他还是劳特里Medieval Near East (Basic Books).奇出版社三套世界史相关丛书的主编之一。 译者简介 谭琦 哈尔滨理工大学语言文学硕士，译有《十字军:一部争夺圣地的史诗》《诅咒之塔》《拜占庭的失落之城》《大围攻:马耳他1565》

A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the story In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. Jack Tannous ar...(展开全部)

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries China, Japan and the Spice Islands dazzled the English imagination as insatiable markets for European goods, and as vast, inexhaustible storehouses of spices and luxury wares. Robert Markley explores the significance of attitudes to the wealth and power of East Asia in rethinking conceptions of national and personal identity in sevent...(展开全部)

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China, Japan and the Spice Islands dazzled the English imagination. Questioning conventional Eurocentric histories, Markley examines how Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift deal with the complexities of a world in which England was marginalised and which was dominated economically by the Eastern empires.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China, Japan and the Spice Islands dazzled the English imagination. Questioning conventional Eurocentric histories, Markley examines how Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift deal with the complexities of a world in which England was marginalised and which was dominated economically by the Eastern empires.

理查·梅比（Richard Mabey） 英國極負盛名的自然書寫作家，致力於探討自然和文化的關係。曾任英國自然保護委員會顧問，二〇一二年成為皇家文學學會會員。著作逾三十餘本，包括暢銷植物聖經《大不列顛植物誌》（Flora Britannica）、《免費食物》（Food for Free）、《野草的故事》（Weeds: the Story of Outlaw Plants）、《自然良方》（Nature Cure）、《吉伯特•懷特》（Gilbert White）等，皆名列「惠特布萊德傳記獎」與「艾克利圖書獎」等多項圖書大獎。他是《泰晤士報》《衛報》《獨立報》、《格蘭塔》等權威媒體的植物專欄作家，身兼英國廣播公司（BBC）多部自然系列節目的總撰稿者和製片人。 譯者 林金源 專職譯者。熱愛大自然中的蟲魚鳥獸，優遊知識與心靈國度，把翻譯當作認識世界的方式。