An indepth treatise on the history of human communication with archival interviews and research of those who have studied it as an intrical part of the social sciences. Paper. DLC: Communication History - 19th Century.

阿诺尔德·J·汤因比，1889年4月14日生于伦敦，卒于1975年10月22日。英国历史学家。牛津大学毕业，曾任该校研究员（1912-1915）。第一次世界大战时期曾在英国外交部情报部工作（1915）；战后作为英国代表团的成员出席过巴黎和会（1919）。二十世纪二十年代先后担任过伦敦大学教授（1924）、皇家国际问题研究所部长（1925）、伦敦大学国际关系史教授。二次大战时期曾任英国外交部调查部长（1943-1946）。1921年他计划巨著《历史研究》，1927-1928年着手写作。 1934-1961年出版了12卷，评述世界历史。注重无文字记载的文明和欧洲以外地区文明。提出一种以分析各种文明的循环和衰落为基础的历史哲学。因其他事务(1939-1943年任皇家国际事务学会外事部研究室主任、1943-1946年任外交部研究司司长等)而中断巨著的继续写作...(展开全部)

This book offers the first detailed intellectual history of communication study, from its beginnings in late nineteenth-century critiques of corporate capitalism and the burgeoning American wireline communications industry, to contemporary information theory and poststructuralist accounts of communicative activity. Schiller identifies a problematic split between manual and inte...(展开全部)

亨利·欧内斯特·西格里斯特（Henry E. Sigerist），当代最重要的医学史家之一，在医学史研究中引入社会学视角的先驱。先后执教于苏黎世大学、莱比锡大学、约翰·霍普金斯大学等。主要著作有：Man and Meaicine, Civilization and Disease, The Great Doctors等。

This book guides students through all the central historical concepts, theories, methods and problems confronting those engaged in the serious study of history.

This book provides a detailed, systematic, and accessible introduction to an original philosophical theory of concepts that Christopher Peacocke has developed in recent years to explain facts about the nature of thought, including its systematic character, its relations to truth and reference, and its normative dimension. Philosophers from Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein to the re...(展开全部)

佩里格林·霍登(Peregrine Horden)，伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院中世纪史教授，中世纪医学、疾病学和慈善史研究专家。主要作品有与尼古拉斯·珀塞尔合著的《堕落之海：地中海史研究》(2000)、《液态大陆》(The Liquid Continent，2018)、《地中海史研究指南 》(A Companion to Mediterranean History，与Sharon Kinoshita合著，2014)等。 尼古拉斯·珀塞尔(Nicholas Purcell)，牛津大学卡姆登古代史讲席教授，曾师从著名罗马史大家布兰特(Peter Brunt)和谢林—怀特(Nicholas Sherwin-White)，长期从事罗马社会、经济、文化史以及罗马城市史研究。主要作品有与尼古拉斯·珀塞尔合著的《堕落之海：地中海史研究》(2000)、《液态大陆》(Th...(展开全部)

The Corrupting Sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region over some 3,000 years. It offers a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to which they belong.

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, their impact on modern science and society was profound. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)