Covering Western costume from Ancient Egypt to contemporary haute couture, this is a fully illustrated companion volume to John Peacock's "Fashion Sourcebooks". The last 4000 years has seen an astonishing variety of ways in which the human form can be dressed, from the relative simplicity of the ancient world, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the changing conventions ...(展开全部)

How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today. The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which successive generations have reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary wor...(展开全部)

How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together histor...(展开全部)

阿尔贝·奥古斯特·拉西内（Albert Auguste Racinet，1825—1893）是法国民俗服装学者、纹饰专家、画家和插图画家。拉西内子承父业，从事制图和平板印刷工作。他因临摹复制艺术品的技术娴熟，参与了许多插图和文字作品的手绘及专业制版工作。1878年，他获得法国骑士荣誉勋章。拉西内参与绘制并担当艺术总监的作品主要有《日本陶瓷制造术》《中世纪和文艺复兴》《奢华艺术》《18世纪彼得·萨尔蒂科夫的考古藏品》等，他作为《多彩装饰》《历史上的服装》两部重要著作的作者而闻名于世。

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)

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book―against a background of t...(展开全部)

瑞贝卡·卡尔教授 (Rebecca Karl)自2003年起担任美国纽约大学历史系和东亚系教授，中国问题专家，清华大学特聘教授，此前她曾在佛罗里达大学历史系(1995-1997)、纽约大学东亚系和历史系(1997-2003)担任副教授。她先后就读于纽约BarnardCollege(现为哥伦比亚大学巴纳德学院)、纽约大学、杜克大学(DukeUniversity)，并于1995年在杜克大学获得历史学博士学位。卡尔曾于1990年在南京大学进修中文。她对于中国近代政治，深厚的研究。瑞贝卡·卡尔教授曾撰写了多本有关中国的著作，包括《概念的魔术：二十世纪中国的经济哲学》、《毛泽东在中国和二十世纪的世界：一本简史》(杜克大学2010年出版)、《世界大舞台——十九二十世纪之交中国的民族主义》(杜克大学2002年出版)(本书中译本于2008年由北京三联书店出版)。

瑞贝卡·卡尔教授 (Rebecca Karl)自2003年起担任美国纽约大学历史系和东亚系教授，中国问题专家，清华大学特聘教授，此前她曾在佛罗里达大学历史系(1995-1997)、纽约大学东亚系和历史系(1997-2003)担任副教授。她先后就读于纽约BarnardCollege(现为哥伦比亚大学巴纳德学院)、纽约大学、杜克大学(DukeUniversity)，并于1995年在杜克大学获得历史学博士学位。卡尔曾于1990年在南京大学进修中文。她对于中国近代政治，深厚的研究。瑞贝卡·卡尔教授曾撰写了多本有关中国的著作，包括《概念的魔术：二十世纪中国的经济哲学》、《毛泽东在中国和二十世纪的世界：一本简史》(杜克大学2010年出版)、《世界大舞台——十九二十世纪之交中国的民族主义》(杜克大学2002年出版)(本书中译本于2008年由北京三联书店出版)。

The study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. Oswyn Murray traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which each generation has reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary world. His book also raises for all students of history, not just historians of the an...(展开全部)

For centuries humanity has engaged in a virtual exploration of space through astronomical observation, aided by astounding scientific and technological advances. In more than sixty years since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, more than 6,000 functioning satellites have been launched into Earth's orbit and beyond - some to the farthest reaches of the Solar System - and more than...(展开全部)