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This course will use several key wars or battles in ancient China, Greece and Rome as examples to discuss the ways of war, including strategy, tactics, weapons, logistics, etc. This course will also lead students to read some original historical materials, including Shiji, the Peloponnesian War, Roman History etc. Discussion based up these historical materials will help students to understand how history is recorded, remembered and reconstructed.
史記，漢司馬遷撰，是中國第一部紀傳體通史。敘事始自黃帝，下迄西漢太初。全書一百三十篇，分為五體：本紀記帝王及王朝之事，為全書之綱領；表載錄各個歷史時期王侯將相及相關事件；書分門別類記述歷代典章製度和重要專題；世家記載王侯貴戚及其家族興衰；列傳敘述各色人物事跡及周邊民族歷史。本書以清同治年間金陵書局本史記集解索引正義合刻本一百三十卷為底本，主要根據張文虎校勘史記集解索引正義劄記及清代以來諸家之說進行訂正。
历史学家李开元在研究、细读楚汉之争这段历史的过程中，结合文献史籍、出土文物，并实地踏查地上遗迹，揭示了一系列未解之谜，如项羽奇袭彭城的路线，刘邦离间楚国的真相，垓下之战前的“陈下之战”等。书中还描绘出众多英雄豪杰卓尔不群的面目，像以一人之力转动大局的韩信、张良、陈平，接续战国纵横家余绪的郦食其、随何、侯公等。作者对史书记述的辨正和还原，尽可能地丰富了那段历史，使楚汉相争这出大戏更为惊心动魄。
本書以跨學科的整合研究視野，引進了現代戰略及戰略文化的理論，來研究北宋經略幽燕地區（俗稱燕雲十六州）的政策及其所遭遇的歷史挫折，指出979年以前的宋遼關係雖然存在深厚的強權政治背景及雙重的領土糾紛，但隨著互動的增加，規範已日漸建立，故軍事衝突並非唯一的選擇。戰爭的爆發，是由於北宋的戰略文化內在失調。本書在前人研究的基礎上，重新檢視每一戰役所衍生的戰略戰術問題。對於關鍵的史實，作者也廣泛運用宋遼雙方的史料加以考證。
本书所收的田庆余先生的十九篇文章，就秦汉魏晋史上的若干重大问题作出了引人入胜的考证与辨析，如秦汉之际的楚地反秦事件（《说张楚》）、汉武帝由扩张政策向“守文”政策的转变（《论轮台诏》）、曹魏草创期与其他政治势力的矛盾斗争（《汉魏之际的青徐豪霸》《曹袁之争与世家大族》）、蜀国政治史（《〈隆中对〉再认识》《李严兴废与诸葛用人》《蜀史四题》）以及孙吴政权与江东大族之关系（《孙吴建国的道路》《暨艳案及相关问题》）等。
本书从社会特质与统制体制之关系、官僚人才的来源与训练、官僚体制运作的特色、官僚士人的价值观等几个方面，论述秦汉时期以皇帝为核心的官僚体制是如何出现及运作的。书中探讨了秦汉的律令学、秦汉时代的徙民与迁徙刑、秦汉的刑期问题、月令与西汉政治、汉代案比、秦汉聚落形态和乡里行政、古代地图、汉代行政中的经常与权变、秦汉的行政文书的相关问题、汉代护军、汉代军队的人事制度、汉代边塞卒吏的军中教育、汉代中国与罗马帝国军队的特色等论题。
Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He had been composing his famous history of the Peloponnesian War, with its hopes and horrors, triumphs and disasters, in full detail from first-hand knowledge, along with the accounts of others. The war was really three conflicts with one uncertain peace after the first; and Thucydides had not unified them into one account when death came sometime before 396. So his work was left unfinished and as a whole unrevised. Yet in brilliance of description and depth of insight this history has no superior.
This book combines traditional scholarship with contemporary research to offer an innovative treatment of one of history's most famous figures- Alexander the Great. It offers a collection of views on aspects of the history and life of Alexander, from the background of the Ancient Macedonian and Greece through his military achievements to his private life. Topics covered include Alexander’s religious views, his entourage during his campaign East, and his sexuality. Reappraisals of the Macedonian army and Macedonian relations with the Greeks complement these new approaches to Alexander’s reign. The influence of his legacy, and later representations in art and cinema, are also discussed.
《三国志》为西晋初年陈寿所著的断代史，记载魏文帝黄初元年到晋武帝太康元年（公元二二〇——二八〇）六十年间的历史。本书把魏蜀吴三国分成三书——魏书三十卷，蜀书十五卷，吴书二十卷。东晋刘宋史学家裴松之为《三国志》作注，引用了大量魏晋人的著作，重点放在事实的增补和考订上。本书勘对四种通行本——据宋绍兴、宋熙两种刻本影印的百衲本、据明北监本校刻的清武英殿刻本、据名南监冯梦祯本校印的金陵活字本、据毛氏汲古阁本校刻的江南书局刻本——进行校点。
By investigating the formation of nomadic cultures, by analyzing the evolution of patterns of interaction along China's frontiers, and by exploring how this interaction was recorded in historiography, this book looks at the origins of the cultural and political tensions between these two civilizations-Chinese and Nomadic- through the first millennium BC. The main purpose of the book is to analyze ethnic, cultural, and political frontiers between nomads and Chinese in the historical contexts that led to their formation, and to look at cultural perceptions of 'others' as a function of the same historical process.
This book presents a new account of the Peloponnesian War, a vicious war of Greek against Greek, Athenian against Spartan. Kagan believes that the Peloponnesian War is a powerful tale as an extraordinary human tragedy, recounting the rise and fall of a great empire, the clash between two very different societies and ways of life, the interplay of intelligence and chance in human affairs, and the role of brilliantly gifted individuals, as well as masses of people in determining the course of events while subject to the limitations imposed upon them by nature, by fortune, and by one another. It is of a dark time whose lessons still resonate today.
