A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism? Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation, it has been continually redefined as new generations of women campaign against the gend...(展开全部)

The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, ...(展开全部)

A radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative. We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. The history of science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavour. Copernicus relied on mathematic...(展开全部)

The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, ...(展开全部)

作者： 詹姆斯·波斯基特 英国华威大学科技史系副教授，博士毕业于剑桥大学，并曾任剑桥大学达尔文学院的研究员，主要研究兴趣涉及现代早期到当代的科学史。 —————— 译者： 孙亚飞 译者，青年科普作家。于清华大学化学系获得博士学位。2010年开始从事科普工作，已出版著作《原子王国历险记》及译作《诗意的原子》等。

A radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative. We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. The history of science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavour. Copernicus relied on mathematic...(展开全部)

Felipe Fernández-Armesto為知名歷史學者，著作豐富，已翻譯成二十二種語言，包括暢銷書Civilizations、Millennium、《食物的歷史》、《真實、真相、真理》、《改變世界的觀念》。他自一九八三年起在牛津大學現代史系擔任教職，目前也是倫敦大學瑪麗女王學院的歷史學和地理學教授。他以海洋與殖民史的著作贏得不少榮譽，包括一九九七年英國國家海洋博物館的凱氏獎章和一九九九年的約翰．卡特．布朗獎章。各書評媒體對他讚譽不斷，《文學評論》說他是世界上最好的歷史學家之一，《紐約時報》也為文稱評論者將他比擬為吉朋、湯恩比、布勞岱爾等歷史學大師。

菲利普·费尔南德兹-阿迈斯托是世界知名学者和作家。菲利普·费尔南德兹一阿迈斯托，现任美国圣母大学威廉·P．雷诺兹历史学讲座教授。他在牛津大学取得硕士和博士学位后，曾长期留校任教。他还获得了拉特罗布大学和洛斯安第斯大学荣誉博士学位。他多次出国访学，2000年担任伦敦大学玛丽女王学院全球环境史讲座教授；2005-2009年，担任塔夫斯大学阿斯图里亚斯王子讲座教授；他还担任过荷兰人文与社会科学高级研究院研究员、明苏达大学太平洋联盟客座教授。他是芝加哥大学出版社制图学史编辑委员会成员、莱顿大学海外史研究编辑委员会成员、《社会、历史、旅行比较研究》以及《全球史》杂志编辑，他还是哈克卢特协会顾问委员、国际笔会英国理事会成员，以及国际笔会文学基金会主席。他近来荣获的奖项包括：世界历史学会很好图书奖（2007），西班牙天文协会颁发的2005年度重量研究奖，西班牙地理...(展开全部)