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Harvard University Press

A Concise History of China

The centuries-long complexity of China's political experience, the richness of its culture, and the drama of its economic unfolding are the hallmarks of this short but sweeping history. China's own history is entwined with its response to the West in a rich tapestry depicting its peoples, rulers, an..

Cambridge University Press

Barbarism and Religion (Barbarism and Religion 2 V...

In this first volume, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, John Pocock follows Gibbon through his youthful exile in Switzerland and his criticisms of the Encyclopédie and traces the growth of his historical interests down to the conception of the Decline and Fall itself. Author: Pocock, J. G. A. Pub..

The History Press

Life in Early China (The Sutton Life Series)

Imagine that you found 'dragon bones' once used to predict the future, or wrote a poem in the Book of Songs, or you played the bronze bells in the ochestra of Marquis Yi, or that youheard Confucius advising kings how the should behave, or uncovered the terracotta army guarding the tomb of the First ..

Cambridge University Press

The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Stu...

Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and ther..