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)

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)

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)

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)