Coinage - it is one of the most successful and consistent technologies ever invented. Nothing else we still use in everyday life has a history quite like it. Look around at all the things that would bewilder a Greek, Roman, or Renaissance ancestor; then, dig into your purse or pocket for that one artifact that they would immediately recognize as part of their world. Historian F...(展开全部)

Coinage - it is one of the most successful and consistent technologies ever invented. Nothing else we still use in everyday life has a history quite like it. Look around at all the things that would bewilder a Greek, Roman, or Renaissance ancestor; then, dig into your purse or pocket for that one artifact that they would immediately recognize as part of their world. Historian F...(展开全部)

凯瑟琳•伊格尔顿与乔纳森•威廉姆斯是大英博物馆的专业馆长，分别精通现代货币以及罗马与铁器时代硬币。

Like other volumes in this series, Ancient History from Coins demystifies a specialism, introducing students (from first year upwards) to the techniques, methods, problems and advantages of using coins to do ancient history. Coins are a fertile source of information for the ancient historian; yet too often historians are uneasy about using them as evidence because of the specia...(展开全部)

作者简介： 亚当•弗格森（Adam Fergusson），1932年出生于苏格兰。剑桥大学历史系毕业后，曾任《格拉斯哥先驱报》《统计学家报》与《泰晤士报》记者。他担任过欧洲议会成员、英国外交部特别顾问及欧洲国际工商事务顾问等数职。目前任英国皇家文学学会会员。

在线阅读本书 Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance . Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, its the s...(展开全部)

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it’s the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it’s the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What’s more, he reveals financial history as the essential back-story b...(展开全部)

Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising nav...(展开全部)

埃里克•多林 (Eric Jay Dolin)在纽约和康涅狄格州州沿海附近长大，毕业于布朗大学，主修生物和环境研究。在耶鲁大学森林和环境研究学院获得环境管理硕士学位后，取得麻省理工学院环境政策和规划博士学位。 多林曾任美国环保署项目经理，在美国和伦敦从事环境顾问，还担任过国家野生动物联合会和国会山实习生，国家海洋渔业服务局渔业政策顾问，《商业周刊》“推动科学大众媒体科学和工程学者”美国学者。 多林的大部分作品反映了他对野生动物、环境和美国历史的兴趣。

Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising nav...(展开全部)