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)

罗纳德·格里戈尔·苏尼（Ronald Grigor Suny），1940年生，美国密歇根大学社会政治史查尔斯·蒂利讲席教授，芝加哥大学政治学和历史学荣休教授。代表作包括《望向阿勒山：亚美尼亚现代史》（Looking Toward Ararat:Armenian Modern History，1993年）、《过去的复仇：民族主义、革命与苏联的解体》（The Revenge of the Past:Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union，1993年）和《苏联实验：俄国、苏联与诸继承国》（The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR,and the Successor States, 1998年）等。 译者简介 杨成，上海外国语大学“志远”...(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)

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 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)

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)

Review "...these essays, individually and collectively, are a major contribution to the fields of Japanese studies and Japanese history. The 51 pages of works cited alone are an important contribution; they represent a basic bibliography of 20th-century Japanese history." Choice "Every chapter in this outstanding volume sets a high standard to challenge present and future histo...(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.

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)

The Cambridge History of the Cold War is a comprehensive, international history of the conflict that dominated world politics in the twentieth century. The three-volume series, written by leading international experts in the field, elucidates how the Cold War evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and socio-political environment of the two World Wars and the inter...(展开全部)