China was once the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how short-lived emperors often ruled...(展开全部)

How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was once the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twent...(展开全部)

魏斐德（Frederic Wakeman，Jr. 1937—2006）美国著名中国研究专家、历史学家、社会活动家，被誉为美国“汉学三杰”之一。曾任美国加州大学伯克利分校历史系哈斯基金教授，美国历史家协会会长、加州大学伯克利分校东亚研究院院长、美国社会科学院院长。除已发表的百余篇学术论文外，其著作还包括《洪业：清朝开国史》《间谍王：戴笠与中国特工》《大门口的陌生人：1839—1861年间华南的社会动乱》《上海警察（1927—1937）》《上海歹土：战时恐怖活动与城市犯罪（1937—1941）》《红星照耀上海城（1942—1952）》《历史与意志：毛泽东思想的哲学透视》等。

魏斐德（Frederic Wakeman，Jr. 1937—2006）美国著名中国研究专家、历史学家、社会活动家，被誉为美国“汉学三杰”之一。曾任美国加州大学伯克利分校历史系哈斯基金教授，美国历史家协会会长、加州大学伯克利分校东亚研究院院长、美国社会科学院院长。除已发表的百余篇学术论文外，其著作还包括《洪业：清朝开国史》《间谍王：戴笠与中国特工》《大门口的陌生人：1839—1861年间华南的社会动乱》《上海警察（1927—1937）》《上海歹土：战时恐怖活动与城市犯罪（1937—1941）》《红星照耀上海城（1942—1952）》《历史与意志：毛泽东思想的哲学透视》等。

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all modern institutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Many of their functions are being taken over by a variety of organizations which, whatever their precise natu...(展开全部)

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all modern institutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Many of their functions are being taken over by a variety of organizations which, whatever their precise natu...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a given area so that they gradually converged on a common prototype. From t...(展开全部)

Prussia, a state which contributed so much to European civilization, only exis-ted as an independent power for 170 years. Sebastian Haffner, a Prussian by birth, reassesses the legend and tells the short but dramatic history of this unique state. He casts fresh light on its foundation, its struggle to become a great power in the eighteenth century, its important role as one of ...(展开全部)