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)

毛里齐奥·斯卡尔帕里（司马儒），意大利汉学家，曾担任东亚研究系主任，亚洲与北非研究学院院长等职位。主要研究中国的先秦时期，长期耕耘在中国古代哲学思想、文学史、考古学领域，从各个可能的角度研究中国文明的形成与兴起，探究中国文化和身份的基本特征，尤其是传统与现代的关系。出版了多部著作，包括《孟子与执政之道》（2013）、《道教：历史、学说与实践》（2014）、《儒家学说》（2015）、《回归孔子之道：在传统文化与现代市场之间的今日中国》（2015）等。

毛里齐奥·斯卡尔帕里（司马儒），意大利汉学家，曾担任东亚研究系主任，亚洲与北非研究学院院长等职位。主要研究中国的先秦时期，长期耕耘在中国古代哲学思想、文学史、考古学领域，从各个可能的角度研究中国文明的形成与兴起，探究中国文化和身份的基本特征，尤其是传统与现代的关系。出版了多部著作，包括《孟子与执政之道》（2013）、《道教：历史、学说与实践》（2014）、《儒家学说》（2015）、《回归孔子之道：在传统文化与现代市场之间的今日中国》（2015）等。

In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant here traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern world. Four years before his death, Will Durant began work on an abbreviated version of his highly...(展开全部)

This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in 221 BC and ends with the abdication of the last Han emperor in AD 220. Spanning four centuries, this period witnessed major evolutionary changes in almost every aspect of China's development, being particularly notable for the emergence and growth of a cent...(展开全部)

Throughout human history, the world's knowledge and fruits of the creative imagination have been produced, circulated and received through the medium of the material text. This Companion provides a wide-ranging account of the history of the book and its ways of thinking about works from ancient inscription to contemporary e-books, discussing thematic, chronological and methodol...(展开全部)

From Ancient Greece to the dawn of the 21st century, this text unravels all of the tightly woven social, cultural, economic and political strands of European history. It looks at the creation of huge empires - including the Roman, Spanish and Soviet - and at the once unimaginable prospect of a united federal Europe. The lives and achievements of figures from all aspects of Euro...(展开全部)

This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while giving weight to the characteristics of each country. This narrative history employs the methods of "history from beneath" to connect leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is a tapestry from which...(展开全部)

The establishment of language as a focus of study took place over many centuries, and reflection on its nature emerged in relation to very different social and cultural practices. Written by a team of leading scholars, this volume provides an authoritative, chronological account of the history of the study of language from ancient times to the end of the 20th century (i.e., 're...(展开全部)

China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared s...(展开全部)