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)

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)

A variety of new patterns of industrial development--from the export-led growth of the Republic of Korea and Taiwan to the more inward-oriented growth of Colombia and Turkey--has emerged in the postwar period. This book provides an examination of these patterns. Applying a common analytical framework to the postwar experiences of nine industrializing economies, the authors dete...(展开全部)

This is the first full-scale comparative study of the nature of slavery. In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Afri...(展开全部)

This is the first full-scale comparative study of the nature of slavery. In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Afri...(展开全部)

Starting from a Marxist analysis of the ideas of Max Weber on China and India's "hydraulic-bureaucratic official-state" and building on Marx's sceptical view of the Asiatic Mode of Production, Wittfogel came up with an analysis of Oriental despotism which emphasized the role of irrigation works, the bureaucratic structures needed to maintain them and the impact that these had o...(展开全部)

卡尔·奥古斯特·魏特夫（Karl August Wittfogel，1896年9月6日－1988年5月25日），德裔美国历史学家，汉学家，犹太裔。出生于德国汉诺威。他提出的东方专制主义理论，引起了很大争论和影响。于1919年加入德国共产党，曾任共产国际教育宣传委员。先后在美因河畔法兰克福社会研究所和威廉中国研究所从事研究。1919年起关心中国革命，写了一系列研究中国的著述。 徐式谷，男，1935年11月生，我国著名双语辞书专家和翻译家、国家级有突出贡献专家。曾任商务印书馆副总编辑，《英语世界》杂志社社长，第九届、第十届全国政协委员。1992年起享受政府特殊津贴，获北京市统战系统建设四化优秀个人称号，1998年被授予“百佳出版工作者”称号。 奚瑞森，1929年生于南京1951年毕业于燕京大学西方语言文学系，曾在新华通讯社总社任英文翻译，在中国科技大学教...(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。