"The Conquerors" describes the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communists in the Cantonese revolution of the 1920s. It is both an exciting war story and a gallery of intellectual portraits: a ruthless Bolshevik revolutionary, a disillusioned master of propaganda, a powerful Chinese pacifist, and a young anarchist. Each of these "conquerors" will be crushed by the revolu...(展开全部)

The enormous size of the Roman empire and the length of time it endured call for an understanding of the institutions which sustained it. In this book, Keith Hopkins, who is both classicist and sociologist, uses various sociological concepts and methods to gain new insights into how traditional Roman institutions changed as the Romans acquired their empire. He examines the chai...(展开全部)

The enormous size of the Roman empire and the length of time it endured call for an understanding of the institutions which sustained it. In this book, Keith Hopkins, who is both classicist and sociologist, uses various sociological concepts and methods to gain new insights into how traditional Roman institutions changed as the Romans acquired their empire. He examines the chai...(展开全部)

威廉·麦克尼尔（William H. McNeill，1917-2016），美国芝加哥大学历史学荣休教授，当代具有影响力的历史学家，被誉为20世纪60年代之后全球史研究的“关键奠基人”，曾获“伊拉斯谟奖”“美国国家图书奖”“世界史先驱奖”等多项殊荣。一生著作等身，代表作有《西方的兴起：人类共同体的历史》《瘟疫与人：传染病对人类历史的冲击》《竞逐富强：西方军事的现代化历程》等。 任一，宾夕法尼亚大学历史系在读博士，研究方向为中国近现代史、跨国史。曾在《史学集刊》、Frontiers of History in China以及Twentieth-Century China等期刊发表多篇论文。

威廉·麦克尼尔（William H. McNeill，1917-2016），美国芝加哥大学历史学荣休教授，当代具有影响力的历史学家，被誉为20世纪60年代之后全球史研究的“关键奠基人”，曾获“伊拉斯谟奖”“美国国家图书奖”“世界史先驱奖”等多项殊荣。一生著作等身，代表作有《西方的兴起：人类共同体的历史》《瘟疫与人：传染病对人类历史的冲击》《竞逐富强：西方军事的现代化历程》等。 任一，宾夕法尼亚大学历史系在读博士，研究方向为中国近现代史、跨国史。曾在《史学集刊》、Frontiers of History in China以及Twentieth-Century China等期刊发表多篇论文。

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blit...(展开全部)

‘The sea without end is Portuguese.’ Fernando Pessoa In 1497, Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and became the first European to sail to India. This feat came off the back of sixty years of coherent effort by the Portuguese to find a way out of the Atlantic Ocean. Then they set about conquering the world. As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the...(展开全部)

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blit...(展开全部)