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)

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.

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

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.

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)

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of wr...(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)

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)