2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British classicist at Cambridge who wrote SPQR (a history of ancient Rome), Confronting the Classics, Women and Power, and The Shock of the Ancient — and who became a prominent public intellectual and defender of academic freedom through her Times Literary Supplement blog and media presence.
The multi-volume Cambridge History of China — the most comprehensive scholarly history of China in English — now comprising 15 volumes covering all periods of Chinese history from the Ch'in dynasty through the People's Republic.