Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why ...(展开全部)

Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why ...(展开全部)

Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. ...(展开全部)

Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. ...(展开全部)

作者迦多尼是位博学的历史学者，也曾当过校长。他是一位诗人，也写过剧本，但真正让他在文坛留名的却是这本于1901年完成的历史小说。 为写此书，他钻研历史背景，读遍欧洲古籍，寻找所有关于匈奴人的史料，还到法国中部古战场寻找历史临场感。此外，他研究罗马人与匈奴人的战法，为求逼真，战争场面重写了许多回。

【作者简介】 托比•格林（Toby Green），英国历史学家、伦敦国王学院葡语非洲历史和文化高级讲师，现担任英国国家学术院非洲历史资料委员会主席，撰写了大量有关非洲早期现代历史和殖民时代非洲奴隶制的作品。 【译者简介】 郭建龙，自由作家、社会观察家，曾任《21世纪经济报道》记者，已出版《穿越非洲两百年》《汴京之围》，以及“帝国密码三部曲”“亚洲三部曲”等作品。

【作者简介】 托比•格林（Toby Green），英国历史学家、伦敦国王学院葡语非洲历史和文化高级讲师，现担任英国国家学术院非洲历史资料委员会主席，撰写了大量有关非洲早期现代历史和殖民时代非洲奴隶制的作品。 【译者简介】 郭建龙，自由作家、社会观察家，曾任《21世纪经济报道》记者，已出版《穿越非洲两百年》《汴京之围》，以及“帝国密码三部曲”“亚洲三部曲”等作品。

By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least...(展开全部)

Examines the various features of Chinese trade across southeast Asia and as far west as Indian and Ceylon from about 211 BC to the founding of the Sung dynasty in 960 AD. Looks especially at the economic background and the Chinese imperial and regional attitudes toward it, and at political struggles between Chinese and other people and among themselves. First published as the J...(展开全部)

In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the careers of merchants who traded there. She follows the histories of three merchant families from various social ranks who conducted trade in Siberia for well over a century. These include the Filat'evs, who were among Russia's most illust...(展开全部)