The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology - how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histories, telephone industry correspondence, and statistical data, Fischer's work is a...(展开全部)

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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)

The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells...(展开全部)

A “comprehensive…fascinating” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But much of their long history has been forgotten. “In her...(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)

Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety and accompanied by diseases which would ravage the native populations. It explores the tensions in...(展开全部)

Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety and accompanied by diseases which would ravage the native populations. It explores the tensions in...(展开全部)

Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge , picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopédie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a retrospective sociology of knowledge) in the sense that it focuses not on individuals but on groups, ins...(展开全部)