Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the Sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence shaken regularly by natural disasters and by the turmoil of sultanic politics and violent revolt. Its inhabit...(展开全部)

埃布鲁·宝雅（Ebru Boyar）是土耳其中东技术大学国际关系学院副教授，对土耳其的历史文化有深刻的理解。她的著作包括《奥斯曼与贸易》《土耳其与巴尔干半岛：帝国的失落及关系转换》。 凯特·弗利特（Kate Fleet）系剑桥大学纽纳姆学院斯科尔特奥斯曼研究中心（Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies）主任。她的著作包括《奥斯曼的投降：文本与语境》以及学术含金量极高的《剑桥土耳其史》（第一卷，拜占庭到土耳其【1071—1453】）部分。

Based on unexplored and often confidential sources from AT&T, the National Association of Manufacturers, Standard Oil, and other major institutions, this book shows how the art of public relations has molded the "public mind" and warped the contours of American democracy. Beginning during the first World War, the book chronicles the birth pangs and coming of age of the PR cultu...(展开全部)

阿萨·布里格斯，1921年生于约克郡的凯利，毕业于剑桥大学悉尼·苏塞克斯学院，1944年任教于牛津大学伍斯特学院。从1976年至1991年，他一直担任该学院院长。从1968年到1976年，他担任苏塞克斯大学的名誉副校长。在1978年至1994年期间，他担任英国开放大学的校长。 阿萨·布里格斯撰写了许多有关19世纪和20世纪英国历史的文章和著作，其中包括维多利亚时代三部曲（《维多利亚时代的城市》《维多利亚时代的人民》和《维多利亚时代的物品》），他还撰写了《改进的时代》和五卷本的《联合王国的广播史》以及合著《传媒的社会史：从古滕堡到互联网》等。阿萨·布里格斯一直担任英国社会史和文化史学会以及维多利亚协会的主席。阿萨·布里格斯已婚，有4个孩子。1976年他被封为终身贵族。 作为英中了解协会的主席，他曾访问中国并对之非常了解。他的作品目前译成中文的除本书外，...(展开全部)

阿萨·布里格斯，1921年生于约克郡的凯利，毕业于剑桥大学悉尼·苏塞克斯学院，1944年任教于牛津大学伍斯特学院。从1976年至1991年，他一直担任该学院院长。从1968年到1976年，他担任苏塞克斯大学的名誉副校长。在1978年至1994年期间，他担任英国开放大学的校长。 阿萨·布里格斯撰写了许多有关19世纪和20世纪英国历史的文章和著作，其中包括维多利亚时代三部曲（《维多利亚时代的城市》《维多利亚时代的人民》和《维多利亚时代的物品》），他还撰写了《改进的时代》和五卷本的《联合王国的广播史》以及合著《传媒的社会史：从古滕堡到互联网》等。阿萨·布里格斯一直担任英国社会史和文化史学会以及维多利亚协会的主席。阿萨·布里格斯已婚，有4个孩子。1976年他被封为终身贵族。 作为英中了解协会的主席，他曾访问中国并对之非常了解。他的作品目前译成中文的除本书外，...(展开全部)

An exploration of how a supposedly apolitical form of philosophy owes its continuing power to social and political forces Analytic philosophy is the dominant form of philosophy in the English-speaking world, and beyond, today. What explains its continuing success? Christoph Schuringa argues that its enduring power can only be understood by examining its social history. Analytic...(展开全部)

An exploration of how a supposedly apolitical form of philosophy owes its continuing power to social and political forces Analytic philosophy is the dominant form of philosophy in the English-speaking world, and beyond, today. What explains its continuing success? Christoph Schuringa argues that its enduring power can only be understood by examining its social history. Analytic...(展开全部)

At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire now gives scholars and general rea...(展开全部)

By the turn of the twentieth century, the eastern Mediterranean port city of Izmir had been home to a vibrant and substantial Sephardi Jewish community for over four hundred years, and had emerged as a major center of Jewish life. The Jews of Ottoman Izmir tells the story of this long overlooked Jewish community, drawing on previously untapped Ladino archival material. Across E...(展开全部)

At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire now gives scholars and general rea...(展开全部)