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.

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)

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)

作者萨缪尔•E•芬纳，英国著名政治学家、历史学家。毕业于牛津大学，曾执教于贝利奥尔学院，后任基尔大学政治学教授，1966年开始任曼彻斯特大学政治学系主任，1974年回到牛津大学并任格拉斯顿讲座教授。芬纳还曾任英国政治学会主席和国际政治科学协会副主席（1965－1969）。芬纳一生博学多产、著作等身，代表作有《马背上的人：军事力量在政治中的作用》（1962）、《比较政府：政治学研究导论》（1974）和三卷本《统治史》。 译者王震，上海社会科学院世界中国学所副研究员、法学博士，兼任西亚北非研究中心秘书长，主要研究领域为国际政治、世界历史等。2005-2006年曾赴以色列特拉维夫大学访学，多次参与国家社科基金、教育部等委托的重大科研项目，目前独立主持国家社科基金和上海市社科规划办委托项目，研究成果曾获“第九届上海市决策咨询研究成果一等奖”。已在《社会科学》...(展开全部)

This is the first of two volumes of this authoritative Cambridge history which review the Republican period, between the demise of imperial China and the establishment of the People's Republic. These years from 1912 to 1949 were marked by civil war, revolution and invasion; but also by change and growth in the economic, social, intellectual and cultural spheres. The chapters in...(展开全部)

This is the second of two volumes of this authoritative history which review the Republican period. The titanic drama of the Chinese Revolution is one of the major world events of modern times. The fifteen authors of this volume are pioneers in its exploration and analysis, and their text is designed to meet the needs of non-specialist readers. After a preliminary overview stre...(展开全部)

本卷主编简介： 安乐博（Robert Antony），山东大学历史文化学院荣誉教授。研究方向为中国社会史、法律史和海洋史。著有《海上风云：南中国海的海盗及其不法活动》（2003年）、《扬帆年代的海盗》（2007年）、《法外之徒：帝制晚期华南的罪行、社群与政府》（2016年）。 斯图尔特·卡罗尔（Stuart Carroll），约克大学早期近代史教授，曾三次获得16世纪研究学会颁发的南希·罗科奖，2009年凭《殉教者与杀人犯：吉斯家族与欧洲的形成》获美国历史学会颁发的J.拉塞尔·梅杰奖。 卡罗琳·多兹·彭诺克（Caroline Dodds Pennock），谢菲尔德大学国际史高级讲师。处女作《血缘：阿兹特克文化中的性别、生命周期与牺牲》（2008年首版，2011年精装版）获皇家历史学会颁发的格莱斯顿奖。目前主要研究被遮蔽的旅欧美洲土著人的历史，同时参与...(展开全部)

This volume covers a relatively short span of time, rather less than the first three-quarters of the first century BC; but it was an age of profoundly important developments, with enduring consequences for the subsequent history of Latin literature. Original and innovative in widely differing ways as was the work of Lucretius, Sallust and Caesar in particular, the scene is domi...(展开全部)

Volumes Seven and Eight of The Cambridge History of China are devoted to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), providing the largest and most detailed account in any language. Summarizing all modern research, Volume Eight offers detailed studies of governmental structure, the fiscal and legal systems, international relations, social and economic history, transportation networks, and th...(展开全部)

格洛丽亚·K. 费尔罗（Gloria K. Fiero）在纽约出生和长大，于加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校取得艺术史硕士学位，后于弗罗里达州立大学获得博士学位。费尔罗教授从事人文传统、世界历史和艺术史的教学已经超过三十年。 1996年，人文教育研究协会（Humanities Education and Research Association）正式设立了“格洛丽亚·费尔罗”人文传统讲座系列，用来纪念费尔罗教授在人文传统教学与研究领域的贡献。该项目每年举办学术讲座和演出，深受学生和学者欢迎。