In the second half of the twentieth century the theme of culture has dominated the human sciences. The forms of contemporary culture demand a radical reappraisal of the terms of description of the modern world. We therefore need to consider our options when culture does not just provide the meaning of experience but is also the terms of that experience. This book reviews thes...(展开全部)

One of the most common--and wounding--misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don't love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literat...(展开全部)

One of the most common--and wounding--misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don't love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literat...(展开全部)

主编弗兰基·哈顿博士，历史学家，曾做过新闻记者和大学教授，任教于美国霍华德大学、蒙特克莱尔州立大学和包伊州立大学，讲授历史学和大众传媒，著有《早期的美国黑人新闻出版业》（The Early Black Press in America）等多部著作。

Throughout history and across cultures, important figures such as Nostradamas in France, Daniel Andreeve in Russia, Dr. Edward Bach in England, and Dr. Tomin Harada in Japan have brought to light the symbolic and medicinal qualities of the rose. Written by scholars and researchers from diverse backgrounds, the essays in Rose Lore are a rendering of global cultural history, lite...(展开全部)

柯睿（Paul W. Kroll），美国科罗拉多大学博尔德分校中文教授。1976年获密歇根大学博士学位。师从著名汉学家薛爱华，是当今北美中古文学研究的三大家之一。柯睿教授对中国中古时期文学和文化史有大量精彩的研究，包括六十多篇论文和五本论著以及若干编著。近著如A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese。柯睿教授多年来一直担任《美国东方学会杂志》（Journal of the American Oriental Society）和《唐学报》（T’ang Studies）的主编。目前则主编欧洲汉学杂志《通报》（T’oung Pao）。童岭，1981年3月生，江苏镇江人。南京大学文学博士。现为南京大学文学院教授。国家第二批“万人计划”青年拔尖人才。主要研究六朝隋唐时代的学术、思想与文学，...(展开全部)

This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a `material turn' in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state power and the role of material cultural practices in the organization of colonial form...(展开全部)

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE, Third Edition is a sophisticated synthesis of social and cultural anthropology. Keesing was concerned with the political and ethical implications of anthropological fieldwork and was sensitive to the global conditions of inequality caused by the spread of capitalist relations of production. Thus, his book is more "political" t...(展开全部)

彼得·伯克(Peter Burke)，英国历史学家。1937年生，获牛津大学博士。曾执教苏塞克斯大学、剑桥大学，现为剑桥大学文化史荣休教授及伊曼纽学院(Emmanuel college)研究员。伯克的研究专长为西方史学思想和欧洲文化史，致力于史学与社会科学理论的沟通，探索文化史写作的新领地，是当代最著名的新文化史学家之一。著作宏富，包括《语言的文化史——近代早期欧洲的语言和共同体》、《法国史学革命》、《历史写作的新视野》、《20世纪的历史与历史学家》、《什么是文化史》、《文化史的多样性》、《图像证史》、《意大利文艺复兴》等数十种，作品被翻译成三十多种文字出版。 彼得·伯克的系列作品将在北大出版社“社会文化史译丛”与“历史学的实践丛书”中陆续推出。

彼得·伯克(Peter Burke)，英国历史学家。1937年生，获牛津大学博士。曾执教苏塞克斯大学、剑桥大学，现为剑桥大学文化史荣休教授及伊曼纽学院(Emmanuel college)研究员。伯克的研究专长为西方史学思想和欧洲文化史，致力于史学与社会科学理论的沟通，探索文化史写作的新领地，是当代最著名的新文化史学家之一。著作宏富，包括《语言的文化史——近代早期欧洲的语言和共同体》、《法国史学革命》、《历史写作的新视野》、《20世纪的历史与历史学家》、《什么是文化史》、《文化史的多样性》、《图像证史》、《意大利文艺复兴》等数十种，作品被翻译成三十多种文字出版。 彼得·伯克的系列作品将在北大出版社“社会文化史译丛”与“历史学的实践丛书”中陆续推出。