理查德·怀特（Richard White），美国斯坦福大学美国史荣休教授，曾任美国历史学家协会主席，美国哲学学会会员，在美国西部史、美国本土史、原住民史、环境史领域的研究颇为知名。他是麦克阿瑟（MacArthur）研究员，斯坦福大学空间历史项目前主任，并获得了梅隆大学杰出教授奖。他的作品多次获奖，并且两次入围普利策奖的决赛。其代表作《中间地带》是一部广受赞誉的美国史经典佳作，曾提名1992年普利策奖，包揽美国史研究的多个重要奖项：美国历史英语图书奖（阿伯特·J.贝弗里奇奖，Alber J. Beveridge Award）、美国历史图书奖（弗朗西斯·帕克曼奖，Francis Parkman Prize）和詹姆斯·A.罗利奖（James A.Rawley Prize）。

An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and...(展开全部)

This book steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually conpre...(展开全部)

This book steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually conpre...(展开全部)

理查德·怀特（Richard White），美国斯坦福大学美国史荣休教授，曾任美国历史学家协会主席，美国哲学学会会员，在美国西部史、美国本土史、原住民史、环境史领域的研究颇为知名。他是麦克阿瑟（MacArthur）研究员，斯坦福大学空间历史项目前主任，并获得了梅隆大学杰出教授奖。他的作品多次获奖，并且两次入围普利策奖的决赛。其代表作《中间地带》是一部广受赞誉的美国史经典佳作，曾提名1992年普利策奖，包揽美国史研究的多个重要奖项：美国历史英语图书奖（阿伯特·J.贝弗里奇奖，Alber J. Beveridge Award）、美国历史图书奖（弗朗西斯·帕克曼奖，Francis Parkman Prize）和詹姆斯·A.罗利奖（James A.Rawley Prize）。

An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and...(展开全部)

This book steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually conpre...(展开全部)

This book steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually conpre...(展开全部)

In this highly illustrated book, a team of internationally renowned scholars surveys the greatest of Asia's empires from 800 AD to the mid-20th century, from the Far East to the fringes of Europe. "The Great Empires of Asia" shows how those seven empires played a key role in forming todays global civilization. Illuminated by maps showing the growth of each empire and lists of k...(展开全部)

From the beginning of the modern era in 1500 CE, Western history has placed Europe at the center of world-wide political, economic, and cultural dynamism. But long before the European powers began to encroach upon the East, Asia itself was the locus of dozens of empires - some, like the Mongols, legendary. In this gorgeously illustrated, accessibly written volume, experts of ar...(展开全部)