It’s easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction. In What Is Ancient History?, Walter Scheidel presents a compelling case for a new kind of ancient history—a global history that captures antiquity’s pivotal role as a decisive phase in human development, one that provided t...(展开全部)

It’s easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction. In What Is Ancient History?, Walter Scheidel presents a compelling case for a new kind of ancient history—a global history that captures antiquity’s pivotal role as a decisive phase in human development, one that provided t...(展开全部)

Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities and professor of classics and history at Stanford University. His books include Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity and The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (both Princeton).

A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious book revises our view of ancient philosophy - and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names, dates, and arid abstractions and plants it squarely in the thick of life. Thr...(展开全部)

A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious book revises our view of ancient philosophy - and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names, dates, and arid abstractions and plants it squarely in the thick of life. Thr...(展开全部)

作者简介： 卡尔·兰普莱希特（Karl Lamprecht，1856—1915），德国十九世纪末至二十世纪初期的文化史家。他在十九世纪末掀起声势浩大的“兰普莱希特争论”，其著作包括《德意志史》、《历史学是什么？》等，其思想成为美国鲁滨逊“新史学”的起源之一，进而影响了二十世纪初的中国史学界。 译者简介： 王燕，华东师范大学历史系讲师。研究领域包括近现代中国妇女史、美国中国史研究。

作者简介： 卡尔·兰普莱希特（Karl Lamprecht，1856—1915），德国十九世纪末至二十世纪初期的文化史家。他在十九世纪末掀起声势浩大的“兰普莱希特争论”，其著作包括《德意志史》、《历史学是什么？》等，其思想成为美国鲁滨逊“新史学”的起源之一，进而影响了二十世纪初的中国史学界。 译者简介： 王燕，华东师范大学历史系讲师。研究领域包括近现代中国妇女史、美国中国史研究。

作者简介： 卡尔·兰普莱希特（Karl Lamprecht，1856—1915），德国十九世纪末至二十世纪初期的文化史家。他在十九世纪末掀起声势浩大的“兰普莱希特争论”，其著作包括《德意志史》、《历史学是什么？》等，其思想成为美国鲁滨逊“新史学”的起源之一，进而影响了二十世纪初的中国史学界。 译者简介： 王燕，华东师范大学历史系讲师。研究领域包括近现代中国妇女史、美国中国史研究。

Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as the most dynamic and innovati...(展开全部)