Provides an account of what is known about the remotest geological ages, comprising chapters on the different kinds of evidence concerning man and his physical environment.

Provides an account of what is known about the remotest geological ages, comprising chapters on the different kinds of evidence concerning man and his physical environment.

Part 2 of volume I deals with the history of the Near East from about 3000 to 1750 B.C. In Egypt, a long period of political unification and stability enabled the kings of the Old Kingdom to develop and exploit natural resources, to mobilize both the manpower and the technical skill to build the pyramids, and to encourage sculptors in the production of works of superlative qual...(展开全部)

The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume I provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the period through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, Europe, India, China, Japan and Central America. Unlike many previ...(展开全部)

Volume VI of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History covers years that include the rise of Macedon and the campaigns of Alexander the Great. The volume treats the politics and economy not only of old Greece but also of the Near East and the western Mediterranean. It has sections on the continued development of classical art and the formation of the philosophical school...(展开全部)

乔戈，中山大学哲学博士，美国波士顿大学古典研究系访问学者，目前任教于重庆西南政法大学。主要研究领域为政治哲学史、古典哲学。著有《国家的伦理》（2014）一书，另有论文和译文数篇，分别载于《现代哲学》、《求是学刊》等刊物。 尤利乌斯·威尔豪森：德国著名圣经学家、东方学家、伊斯兰教家。曾历任格赖夫斯瓦尔德大学、哈勒大学、马堡大学和哥廷根大学教授，提出著名的底本学说，注重以语言学、文献学为基础来考察宗教的历史，最早采用法律观点研究犹太教和伊斯兰教，卓有建树。其研究对犹太教史和伊斯兰教相关领域产生了深远影响，著有《以色列史绪论》、《穆罕默德在麦地那》、《阿拉伯帝国及其衰亡》等著作。

This volume in the authoritative Cambridge History of China is devoted to the history of the Ming dynasty, with some account of the three decades before the dynasty's formal establishment, and of the Ming Courts, which survived in South China for a generation after 1644. Volume 7 deals primarily with political developments of the period, but it also incorporates background in s...(展开全部)

This volume in the authoritative Cambridge History of China is devoted to the history of the Ming dynasty, with some account of the three decades before the dynasty's formal establishment, and of the Ming Courts, which survived in South China for a generation after 1644. Volume 7 deals primarily with political developments of the period, but it also incorporates background in s...(展开全部)

This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War. In the first comprehensive reexamination of the period, a team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period, and discusses how markets, ideas and cultural interactions affected political di...(展开全部)

Volume IX of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History has for its main theme the process commonly known as the 'Fall of the Roman Republic'. Chapters 1-12 supply a narrative of the period from 133 BC to the death of Cicero in 43 BC, with a prelude analysing the situation and problems of the Republic from the turning-point year 146 BC. Chapters 13-19 offer analysis o...(展开全部)