Customer Review: Being an armchair historian, I found this work to be highly readable and entertaining. The bibliography is exhaustive (about 100 pages), as one might expect, and their are numerous maps and genealogy tables. Despite numerous authors, it does not backtrack nor contradict itself. For a scholarly work,... more info
Customer Review: Very well-written, fascinating treatment of this important period in history. Shows the importance of the Persian Empire and its influence on the Greek and Mediterranean empires than came afterward. The book manages to cover a great deal of material rather efficiently -- a must-have for anyone who... more info
Customer Review: I read this one awhile back and I enjoyed it very much although it was very technical. The book is profusely illustrated with maps, building plans, and tables. Great book (but very expensive) for history buffs.
Customer Review: This volume is everything the 15 volume series the Cambridge History of China ought to be, and is easily the best single-volume pre-Qin history currently available in English. While it is true that there is sufficient information available to have made at least three volumes of this size, and would... more info
Customer Review: The CAH series is without peer. I'm an armchair historian, not a professional, yet found this work eminently readable. Enjoyable, in fact. What really struck me about this older edition is the level of scholarship and the lack of silly sidebars that contemporary historians fall into. I've read many... more info
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