This text, written by members of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, is designed to cover the history of western medicine from classical antiquity to 1800. As one guiding thread it takes, as its title suggests, the system of medical ideas that in large part went back to the Greeks of the eighth century BC, and played a major role in the understanding and treatme...(展开全部)

This 2006 book is a detailed and authoritative account of the last two centuries of the development of 'Western' medicine, a tradition now important everywhere in the world. It is written by leading experts who not only describe the most important people, events, and transformations, but give explanations for why medicine developed as it did, becoming as important as it has in ...(展开全部)

In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that this crossing would be Rome's first step on its journey from local republic to vast and powerful empire. At the beginning of the three dramatic centuries that make up this book's narrative, Rome had no emperor and limited global influence; by the book's end, Hadrian was set to p...(展开全部)

H.W.詹森（H.W.Janson，1913—1982），美国著名艺术史家，艺术史学的传奇人物，曾任纽约大学艺术系教授、系主任。詹森出生于圣彼得堡，后随家人迁往德国汉堡，就读汉堡大学期间师从艺术史大师欧文·潘诺夫斯基。后接受潘诺夫斯基的意见移民美国，于1942年获哈佛大学艺术史博士学位。曾任美国艺术院校协会主席，《艺术通报》编辑，他还是美国文艺复兴学会的创办人之一并曾任主席。詹森主要致力于文艺复兴艺术和19世纪雕塑的研究，主要的学术著作有《多纳太罗的雕塑》和《19世纪雕塑》等，晚年主要关注东西艺术对话。1962年撰写出版了艺术通史著作《詹森艺术史》，大受欢迎，很快成为艺术史教育的标准教材。 A.F.詹森（A.F.Janson），美国北卡罗来纳威明顿大学艺术史教授，博物馆策展人，H.W.詹森的儿子。从他父亲于1982年去世到2004年，由他负责修订《詹...(展开全部)

From Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step to the Red Sea and eastward across the Euphrates to the Tigris. This work of interpretive history examines this world as it was forged into the Roman provinces of Judea, Arabia, Mesopotamia and Syria, conveying the sweep of history as well as the diversity of peoples, religions and languages t...(展开全部)

Europe is, in world terms, a relatively minor peninsula attached to the Eurasian land mass, yet it became one of the most innovative regions on the planet, bearing restless adventurers who traversed the globe to trade and often to settle. By the fifteenth century Europe was a driving world force, but the origins of its success have until now remained obscured in prehistory. In ...(展开全部)

Not since the works of Lovejoy and Burt has a scholar attempted such a grand-scale inquiry into the idea of law as the vehicle of culture and social and moral thought. Donald Kelley’s major premise is that law and the theory and practice of jurisprudence—civil science—represent the most concrete efforts to find a human measure, a systematic practical philosophy broader than pol...(展开全部)

唐纳德•凯利，罗格斯大学历史系James Westfall Thompson教授，研究领域集中于欧洲史学史、欧洲思想史、法律史，著有Faces of History : Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder, The Descent of Ideas : The History of Intellectual History等专著，部分作品已被译为中文；曾任思想史国际学会会长、《观念史杂志》执行主编等社会职务。