The first section of this volume examines the Persian empire, the regions it comprised, and its expansion under Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes. In Greece, Sparta attained maturity as the leader of a military coalition and Athens passed through a period of enlightened tyranny to a moderate democracy of dynamic energy and intelligence. Given the contrast between Greek idealism and P...(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)

Egypt, Greece, and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world. It is written for the general reader and the student coming to the subject for the first time and provides a reliable and highly accessible point of entry to the period. Beignning with the early Middle Eastern civilizations of Sumer, and continuing right through to the Islmic invasion...(展开全部)

◎著者简介 查尔斯·弗里曼（Charles Freeman），英国当代历史学者，一直致力于古典文化史与古代思想史的研究，已出版多部专著，其中包括广受赞誉的《西方心灵的封闭：信仰的崛起与理性的衰落》（The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason）。 2003年，他当选为英国皇家文艺学会会员；2005年，他受邀担任著名的旅游丛书《蓝皮旅行指南》的历史顾问。 ◎译者简介 李大维，毕业于东北师范大学世界古典文明史研究所，博士、副教授。2018年调入辽宁大学历史学院，主要研究方向为罗马史。 刘亮，东北师范大学埃及学博士，主要研究领域为古埃及文学、制度史与社会史。

◎著者简介 查尔斯·弗里曼（Charles Freeman），英国当代历史学者，一直致力于古典文化史与古代思想史的研究，已出版多部专著，其中包括广受赞誉的《西方心灵的封闭：信仰的崛起与理性的衰落》（The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason）。 2003年，他当选为英国皇家文艺学会会员；2005年，他受邀担任著名的旅游丛书《蓝皮旅行指南》的历史顾问。 ◎译者简介 李大维，毕业于东北师范大学世界古典文明史研究所，博士、副教授。2018年调入辽宁大学历史学院，主要研究方向为罗马史。 刘亮，东北师范大学埃及学博士，主要研究领域为古埃及文学、制度史与社会史。

Egypt, Greece and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world. It is written for the general reader and the student coming to the subject for the first time and provides a reliable and highly accessible point of entry to the period. The volume begins with the early civilizations of Sumer (modern Iraq) and continues through to the Islamic invasions...(展开全部)

由英国学者鲁唯一（Michael Loewe）与美国汉学家夏含夷（Edward L.Shaughnessy）等人所编著的《剑桥中国上古史：从文明的起源到公元前221年》（The Cambridge History of Ancient China：From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C.）已经于1999年由英国剑桥大学出版社出版发行。尽管迄今为止该书中译本仍未面世而不免使人有遗珠之憾，但该书不仅反映了西方数代汉学家所秉持的迥异的研究方法与理论素养而具有相当的学术性与可读性。而且该书的分析视角和学术思路也值得在中国先秦史研究中加以镜鉴，从而开拓并深入中国的先秦史研究的内容与视界。 该书内容翔实而不仅仅是对史料的简单汇编，全书恰好地将传世文献资料和考古文物资料互为补充，基本上对中国先秦时代的主要领域和研究动...(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)

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.

This volume provides a survey of the history of architecture in Europe and North America, from ancient Greece to the present. Ian Sutton focuses both on the technological achievements of architects, and on aesthetic considerations, and stresses that architecture is both a part of history, and an art form in its own right. Arranged chronolgically, the book is divided into chapte...(展开全部)