英国皇家海军退伍军官。1937年生于伦敦，几个月后被父母带到中国。第二次世界大战爆发后，回到英国。1953年加入英国皇家海军；1957年在“钻石”号驱逐舰上服役于地中海海域；1959年，在“纽芬兰”号上担任航海指挥官，服役于远东海域；1960年，调到“决心”号战略导弹核潜艇，任作战官；1968年，担任“鳁鲸”号潜艇艇长，被授予海军中校军衔，执行全球航行访问任务。在皇家海军的服役期间，他曾率舰沿着伟大的航海家哥伦布、迪亚斯、卡布拉尔和达·伽马的航线行遍世界。退伍之后，他曾多次走访中国与亚洲各国，专注于研究郑和率领的中国舰队先于欧洲航海家发现新大陆的传奇旅程。

One thing that greatly puzzled me when writing 1421 was the lack of curiosity among many professional historians. After all, Christopher Columbus supposedly discovered America in 1492. Yet 18 years before he set sail, Columbus had a map of the Americas, which he later acknowledged in his logs. Indeed, even before his first voyage, Columbus signed a contract with the King and Qu...(展开全部)

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a ...(展开全部)

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distincti...(展开全部)

彼得·伯克是英国剑桥大学的文化史教授；剑桥大学埃马纽埃尔学院的研究员。他先前出版的著作包括：《欧洲近代早期的大众文化》（PopularCultureinEarlyModemEurope，1978）、《近代早期意大利的历史人类学解（HistoricaIAnthropologyofEarlyModernItaly，1987）、（《廷臣的命运》（The Fortunes ofthe Courtier，1995）、《历史学与社会理论》（hstoryandSociaL　ThoerY，1992）、《多元的文化史》（VarietiesofCulturalHistorp；1997）。

Now updated — A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industri...(展开全部)

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped-and have been shaped by-the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism,...(展开全部)

This book traces the intellectual life of the Kingdom of Italy, the area in which humanism began in the mid thirteenth century, a century or more before exerting its influence on the rest of Europe. Covering a period of over four and a half centuries, this study offers the first integrated analysis of Latin writings produced in the area, examining not only religious, literary, ...(展开全部)

There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any cl...(展开全部)