Exotic and yet familiar, rife with passion, immorality, hunger, and freedom, Bohemia was an object of both worry and fascination to workaday Parisians in the nineteenth century. No mere revolt against middle-class society, the Bohemia Seigel discovers was richer and more complex, the stage on which modern bourgeois acted out the conflicts of their social identities, testing the...(展开全部)

This book is a groundbreaking study of the historical reasons for the divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the threat of contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox and syphilis. In particular the book examines the link between politics and prevention. Did the varying political regimes influence ...(展开全部)

This book is a groundbreaking study of the historical reasons for the divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the threat of contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox and syphilis. In particular the book examines the link between politics and prevention. Did the varying political regimes influence ...(展开全部)

约翰•达尔文（John Darwin） 英国国家学术院院士，牛津大学全球史研究中心创始主任、历史系荣休教授、纳菲尔德学院研究员，专注于研究帝国的兴衰史，其著作《后帖木儿时代》曾获“沃尔夫森历史奖”。

Steam-power transformed humanity, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the implications of which we now battle with. Steam revolutionized work, land-transport and - the subject of John Darwin's thrilling new book - our relationship with oceans, seas and rivers. The Keys to the World is a history of how, over a remarkably short period of time, steam-power...(展开全部)

约翰•达尔文（John Darwin） 英国国家学术院院士，牛津大学全球史研究中心创始主任、历史系荣休教授、纳菲尔德学院研究员，专注于研究帝国的兴衰史，其著作《后帖木儿时代》曾获“沃尔夫森历史奖”。

Steam-power transformed humanity, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the implications of which we now battle with. Steam revolutionized work, land-transport and - the subject of John Darwin's thrilling new book - our relationship with oceans, seas and rivers. The Keys to the World is a history of how, over a remarkably short period of time, steam-power...(展开全部)

The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of the grandest political dreams of the nineteenth century—before culminating in horrific violence. Following the disastrous French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, hungry and politically disenchanted Parisians took up arms against their government in the name of a more just soc...(展开全部)