When this volume of work was published, The Times welcomed the book and the project in these words: Here - almost for the first time - we have a picture of normal society in a past age in the same fullness of detail as we can picture our own age. It is the beginning of what we have never had before, a history of the English people. The first volume of John Harold Clapham's rema...(展开全部)

This engaging volume tells the story of how the great political visions and idealisms of Victorian Britain came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity, and self-gratification. It explains how in each decade, political leaders found themselves confounded by the British people, who always turned out to be harder to herd than predicted. Historically Britain has been...(展开全部)

安德鲁·玛尔（Andrew Marr）是英国著名的政治新闻记者、BBC资深编辑及主持人。他1959年生于格拉斯哥，在剑桥大学攻读英文，后来长期担任政治记者，为《苏格兰人》（the Scotsman）、《独立报》（the Independent）、《每日快报》（the Daily Express）、《观察家报》（the Observer）撰写文章。从2000年到2005年，他担任BBC政治编辑。他为电视台撰写和播出历史、科学和政治纪录片，主编并主持BBC一台的王牌政治栏目《安德鲁·玛尔秀》（Andrew Marr Show），及BBC四台的《开启一周》（Start the Week）。代表作品有《BBC世界史》《现代英国史》《现代英国的形成》等。

This book focuses on the importance of ideological and institutional factors in the rapid development of the British economy during the years between the Glorious Revolution and the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Joel Mokyr shows that we cannot understand the Industrial Revolution without recognizing the importance of the intellectual sea changes of Britain’s Age of Enlightenment. ...(展开全部)

乔尔·莫克尔（Joel Mokyr） 美国西北大学经济学和历史学教授。主要从事技术和人口等领域的经济史研究，曾任经济史学会主席，并主编《牛津经济史百科全书》（Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History）。现为美国艺术与科学院院士。

乔尔·莫克尔（Joel Mokyr） 美国西北大学经济学和历史学教授。主要从事技术和人口等领域的经济史研究，曾任经济史学会主席，并主编《牛津经济史百科全书》（Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History）。现为美国艺术与科学院院士。

This book focuses on the importance of ideological and institutional factors in the rapid development of the British economy during the years between the Glorious Revolution and the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Joel Mokyr shows that we cannot understand the Industrial Revolution without recognizing the importance of the intellectual sea changes of Britain’s Age of Enlightenment. ...(展开全部)

From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought - economics, evolution, and history - that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and g...(展开全部)

Is environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are committed to doing so? These questions are at the heart of An Ecological History of Modern China, a comprehensive account of China's transformation since the founding of the People's Republic from the perspective not of the economy b...(展开全部)