China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviving a classic question in economic history: why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China? Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the nineteenth-century economic divergence between Europe and the rest of the world. This book, the product of over twenty years of research, take...(展开全部)

The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and fa...(展开全部)

《The Government and Politics of China 中国的政府与政治》内容简介：This book has several parts. Chapters Ⅱ and Ⅲ are brief reviews of the political ideas and institutions of ancent China. The four chapters that follow give a brief account of political and institutional development during the generation preceding the Kuomintang Government of 1928. Chapters VIII and IX describe the Kuomintang a...(展开全部)

In this bold, sweeping study of the development of Western economies, Douglass C. North sets forth a new view of societal change. At the core of Professor North's investigation is the question of property rights, the arrangements individuals and groups have made through history to deal with the fundamental economic problem of scarce resources. In six theoretical chapters, Profe...(展开全部)

War and Change in World Politics introduces the reader to an important new theory of international political change. Arguing that the fundamental nature of international relations has not changed over the millennia, Professor Gilpin uses history, sociology, and economic theory to identify the forces causing change in the world order. The discussion focuses on the differential g...(展开全部)

▌[瑞士] 罗曼·施图德 Roman Studer . 曾先后供职于学术机构和私营企业，现为瑞银集团瑞士政府事务部主管。曾任牛津大学博士后研究员、伦敦经济学院讲师。博士论文获2009年度美国经济史学会“格申克龙奖”，这是授予国际经济史年度最佳论文的奖项。曾任苏黎世大学瑞银社会经济学研究中心首席运营官。 .

▌[瑞士] 罗曼·施图德 Roman Studer . 曾先后供职于学术机构和私营企业，现为瑞银集团瑞士政府事务部主管。曾任牛津大学博士后研究员、伦敦经济学院讲师。博士论文获2009年度美国经济史学会“格申克龙奖”，这是授予国际经济史年度最佳论文的奖项。曾任苏黎世大学瑞银社会经济学研究中心首席运营官。 .