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The Art of Ruling: Five Empires That Shaped World History
CITIC Press · 2023
This is a comparative study of the ruling experience of five empires, written from the rulers' perspective. The author, Krishan Kumar, is a professor …
History of Imperial China, Volume 1: The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
CITIC Press · 2016
This is the first volume of the six-volume History of Imperial China. The author, Mark Edward Lewis, is a specialist in ancient Chinese history at Sta…
A World History: From Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century—The Interplay of Global Civilizations
CITIC Press · 2013
This book is the representative work of William H. McNeill, the American historian and founder of global history studies, translated from the fourth r…
Bringing the World to China: A Modern Chinese History Starting from Macao
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2013
This book is the outcome of a sub-project of "The Historical Position, Unique Role and Contemporary Significance of Macao in Globalization and East-We…
The Turning Point of Civilization: A Human History Told Through Plagues
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
The Turning Point of Civilization: A Human History Told Through Plagues is a work by the British scholar Jonathan Kennedy, originally titled Pathogene…
The Tide Turns: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Chinese Modernity
Shanxi People's Publishing House · 2017
The modern Chinese Maritime Customs Service began during the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864) and ended shortly after the founding of the People's Republ…
The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us About Our Future
CITIC Press · 2018
A book that pulls archaeology out of the dusty archives and points it directly at the future. Kelly does not write like a textbook: he begins with his…
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
CITIC Press · 2015
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community is the representative work of the American historian William H. McNeill (1917–2016). The Englis…
The Ideas Series Boxed Set: Maps of Time + Something New Under the Sun (2-Book Set)
CITIC Press · 2017
This boxed set brings together the first two interdisciplinary works of history in The Ideas Series: one stretches the lens to 13 billion years, the o…
The Story of Culture: From Cave Art to K-Pop
Yilin Press · 2025
Martin Puchner, Harvard professor of English and comparative literature and of drama, follows The Written World by turning from writing to the wider r…
Mankind and Mother Earth: A Narrative History of the World
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2016
Mankind and Mother Earth: A Narrative History of the World is the last major work completed in his later years by the British historian Arnold Toynbee…
Global History of the 20th Century: An Age and an Instant
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2018
"Global History of the 20th Century: An Age and an Instant" is a boxed set in the "Oracle" series from the Social Sciences Academic Press, consisting …
The Butterfly Effect: How Shellac, Silk, and Cochineal Shaped Human Civilization and Made the Modern World
CITIC Press · 2023
This is a global material history told through insects. Edward Melillo, professor of history and environmental studies at Amherst College, traces thre…
Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History, 1500–1850
Zhejiang University Press · 2010
This book answers a question that has been asked again and again: why was it Europe that industrialized first and pulled ahead of Asia in the nineteen…
The Silk–Silver Convection of the Monsoon Seas: East Asian Migration, Trade, and Culture in the 16th–17th-Century Encounter Between China and the West
CITIC Press · 2025
In the 16th and 17th centuries, beginning with the voyages of Columbus and Magellan, Spain crossed the Atlantic, traversed the Americas, entered the P…
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
CITIC Press · 2018
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community is the work that established the reputation of the American historian William H. McNeill and is…
Discovering East Asia
New Star Press · 2018
The "China" and "East Asia" we take for granted are in fact relatively recent concepts: the former took shape only gradually in the Qing dynasty, whil…
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
CITIC Press · 2020
The Pursuit of Power is one of the representative works of the American historian William H. McNeill, a founder of global history studies. The English…
Something New Under the Sun: A Global History of Humans and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
CITIC Press · 2017
Ecclesiastes says, "There is nothing new under the sun," but John R. McNeill, professor of environmental history at Georgetown University, argues the …
The Mirror of History Series (10 Volumes)
CITIC Press · 2016
"The Mirror of History" is an imported history series published by CITIC Press, comprising ten works by seven overseas scholars in a full hardcover se…