This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba. Unlike previous studies, equal attention is paid to similarities and differences in their sociopolitical organization, economic sys...(展开全部)

This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba. Unlike previous studies, equal attention is paid to similarities and differences in their sociopolitical organization, economic sys...(展开全部)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work...(展开全部)

杰克•古迪（Jack Goody），英国社会人类学家、历史学家，剑桥大学社会人类学系荣誉教授，圣约翰学院成员，因其对人类学的贡献被英国女王封为爵士。1976年入选英国社会科学院，1980年当选美国艺术与科学院外籍荣誉成员，2004年当选美国国家科学院院士。半个多世纪以来，杰克•古迪在人类学、历史学、社会学和文化研究等多个领域里笔耕不辍，这也让他的著作成为当今最广为阅读、最具争议的学术专著。他的著作有《死亡、财产与祖先》、《野蛮心智的驯服》、《烹饪、菜肴与阶级》、《欧洲家庭与婚姻的发展》、《东方世界、古代世界与原始世界》、《花之文化》、《西方中的东方》、《饮食与爱情》和《偷窃历史》等。

The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. It is in the context of this previous anthropological work that Jack Goody sets his own observations on cooking in West Africa. He critici...(展开全部)

This groundbreaker by one of the premier historians of this century takes an anti-ethnocentric approach to the history of civilizations. This book focuses on the broad sweep of history rather than on the famous events. It covers historical developments in almost every corner of the globe, from the Muslim world and the Far East to Europe and the Americas. Includes maps.

This book is now firmly established as the standard treatment of its subject. The history of comparative religion is traced in detail from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, in the work of scholars such as Max Muller and anthropologists - such as Tylor, Lang, Robertson-Smith and Frazer - through the American psychologists of religion - such as Starbuck, Leuba, William Ja...(展开全部)

著者简介 洛朗·比奈（Laurent Binet），1972年出生在巴黎。他的第一部小说《HHhH》被《纽约时报》评为年度最佳书籍之一，并获得了龚古尔首部小说奖（新人奖）。其他小说代表作包括《语言的第七种功能》和《翻转文明》，前者获得了行际盟友奖和法国FNAC小说奖，后者获得了法兰西学院小说大奖和或然历史写作“侧面奖”（Sidewise Award for Alternate History）。 译者简介 汪玲，复旦大学法语语言文学硕士，译有《我们与他人》，曾入围傅雷翻译出版奖初评。

Vers l’an mille : la fille d’Erik le Rouge met cap au sud. 1492 : Colomb ne découvre pas l’Amérique. 1531 : les Incas envahissent l’Europe. À quelles conditions ce qui a été aurait-il pu ne pas être ? Il a manqué trois choses aux Indiens pour résister aux conquistadors. Donnez-leur le cheval, le fer, les anticorps, et toute l’histoire du monde est à refaire. Civilizatio...(展开全部)

美国西雅图华盛顿大学教授，还著有《中华人民共和国基本手册》、《共产党中国的政治参与》等。 美国弗吉尼亚大学政府和外交事务系教授，还著有《共产党国家的开放与外交政策改革》、《从历史眼光看当代中国政治》、《媒体与中国大众》和《毛泽东政治思想的基础》等。