This volume introduces the geographical setting of Central Asia and follows its history from the palaeolithic era to the rise of the Mongol empire in the thirteenth century. From earliest times Central Asia linked and separated the great sedentary civilisations of Europe and Asia. In the pre-modern period 'Inner Asia' was definable more as a cultural than a geographical entity,...(展开全部)

查尔斯·海厄姆（Charles Higham），新西兰奥塔哥大学教授，剑桥圣凯瑟琳学院成员。他最早于1969年在泰国进行考古发掘，此后又参与泰国多处遗址的考古工作以及一次前往柬埔寨的探险，由此开启他毕生的东南亚考古之旅。在过去的二十年间，他通过考察东南亚每一个国家的遗址，联合组织了泰国东北部地区自史前时期到吴哥文明建立的考古研究工作。在他的儿子、剑桥大学托马斯·海厄姆（Thomas Higham）教授的帮助下，查尔斯·海厄姆教授目前正在利用新近的碳测年数据，对遗址重新断代。查尔斯·海厄姆教授还是英国科学院（British Academy）、新西兰皇家学会（Roval Society of New Zealand）、伦敦古物学会（Antiquaries of London）、英国皇家亚洲学会（Royal Asiatic Society）等多家单位的通讯...(展开全部)

China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. Volume II, which spans China's two turbulent centuries from 1800, charts this wrenching process of an ancient empire being transformed to re-emerge as a major world power. This volume for the first time brings together the fruits of pioneering in...(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)

This volume is a comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, ca. 1500-1700. Often referred to as the Scientific Revolution, this period saw major transformations in fields as diverse as anatomy and astronomy, natural history and mathematics. Articles by leading specialists describe in clear, accessible prose supplemented by extensive bibliographies, how n...(展开全部)

This volume is a comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, ca. 1500-1700. Often referred to as the Scientific Revolution, this period saw major transformations in fields as diverse as anatomy and astronomy, natural history and mathematics. Articles by leading specialists describe in clear, accessible prose supplemented by extensive bibliographies, how n...(展开全部)

The first volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the transitional period between the later Roman world and the early middle ages, c. 500 to c. 700. This was an era of developing consciousness and profound change in Europe, Byzantium and the Arab world, an era in which the foundations of medieval society were laid and to which many of our modern myths of national an...(展开全部)

This is the first of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the decline of the Ch'ing empire. It opens with a survey of the Ch'ing empire in China and Inner Asia at its height, in about 1800. Modern China's history begins with the processes recorded here of economic growth, social change and the deterioration of central government within China. Contributors to...(展开全部)

【英】查尔斯•辛格（Charles Singer） 英国科学史、技术史和医学史学家。曾任伦敦大学医学史教授，英国科学史学会主席，国际科学史研究院院长。 【英】E.J. 霍姆亚德（E. J. Holmyard） 英国金丹术权威、化学史专家。曾任克里夫顿学院科学史系主任，国际科学评论杂志《科学进展》主编，金丹术与化学史学会主席。 【英】A.R. 霍尔（A. R. Hall） 英国军事技术和牛顿著作研究权威。曾任剑桥的惠普尔博物馆馆长，伦敦大学科学技术史教授，英国科学史学会主席。1981年度科学史学会萨顿奖章获得者。