中文参考译名:阿葡萄牙简史（剑桥简明史）
Author: David Birmingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, portugal, history
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-12-08
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0521536863
ISBN-13: 9780521536868
This concise, illustrated history of Portugal presents an introduction to the people and culture of the country and its search for economic modernization, political stability and international partnership. The first single-volume account of Portugal’s history since the days of dictatorship and colonization, this updated second edition also covers the state of historical writing on Portugal at the turn of the millennium. First Edition Hb (1993): 0-521-43308-8 First Edition Pb (1993): 0-521-43880-2 David Birmingham is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He
中文参考译名:阿芬兰简史（剑桥简明史）
Author: David Kirby
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, finland, history
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2006-07-24
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0521539897
ISBN-13: 9780521539890
Few countries in Europe have undergone such rapid social, political and economic changes as Finland has during the last fifty years. David Kirby here sets out the fascinating history of this northern country, for centuries on the east-west divide of Europe, a country not blessed by nature, most of whose inhabitants still earned a living from farming fifty years ago, but which today is one of the most prosperous members of the European Union. He shows how this small country was able not only to survive in peace and war but also to preserve and develop its own highly distinctive identity, neithe
中文参考译名:阿澳大利亚简史（剑桥简明史）
Author: Stuart Macintyre
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, australia, history
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2004-12-27
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0521601010
ISBN-13: 9780521601016
This revised edition of a comprehensive single-volume Australian history reference incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary debate on relevant issues. In addition to frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations, the volume covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the "Pacific solution."Book DescriptionThis is the most up-to-date single-volume Australian history available. This revised edition incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary historical debates on frontier violence between European settl
中文参考译名:希腊的（剑桥简明史）简史
Author: Richard Clogg
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, greece, history
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2002-07-15
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0521004799
ISBN-13: 9780521004794
This book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the history of modern Greece, from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eighteenth century to the present day. It is designed to provide a basic introduction for general and academic readers with little or no prior knowledge of the subject. A Concise History of Greece has been revised and now includes a new final chapter that covers Greek history and politics to the present day. Richard Clogg is a Fellow of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford and was formerly Professor of Modern Balkan History, University of London.
中文参考译名:阿南非（剑桥简明史）简史
Author: Robert Ro
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, south, history, africa
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-01-19
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0521720265
ISBN-13: 9780521720267
It lays emphasis on the continuing influence of the country’s African heritage, whilst also chronicling the processes of colonial conquest and of economic development stemming from the industrial revolution. This is followed by an analysis of the fundamental political changes South Africa has undergone, and a background for understanding those many things which have not changed.Book DescriptionThis is a succinct synthesis of Southern African history from the introduction of agriculture about 1 500 years ago up to and including the government of Thabo Mbeki. Stressing economic, social, cu
Author: Keith Brown
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: concise, language, linguistics, encyclopedias, world, encyclopedia, languages
Number of Pages: 1320
Published: 2008-11-21
List price: $195.95
ISBN-10: 0080877745
ISBN-13: 9780080877747
Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world. It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world’s major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution.Based on the highly accl
中文参考译名:简明同伴到当代英国小说（简明同伴文学与文化）
Author: James F. English
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: concise, literature, culture, companions, british, companion, contemporary, fiction
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-01-09
List price: $109.95
ISBN-10: 1405120002
ISBN-13: 9781405120005
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. The book focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era, and the resulting transformation of such key areas of literary practice as publishing, bookselling, book reviewing, and higher education. Although the volumes original contributions range across a variety of topics from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel, and controversies over the celebrity author, to
