These 14 essays covering a wide range of subjects of great current interest reflect the continuous evolution of the author's thought from 1951 to 1961. Range and flexibility characterize Mr. Gerschenkron's dynamic approach to Europe's industrial history. Connecting evolution in individual countries with their degree of economic backwardness, he presents the industrialization of...(展开全部)

This collaborative volume offers the first historical reconstruction of the concept of popular sovereignty from antiquity to the twentieth century. First formulated between the late sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the various early modern conceptions of the doctrine were heavily indebted to Roman reflection on forms of government and Athenian ideas of popular power. Th...(展开全部)

石约翰（John E. Schrecker），师从汉学大师费正清，布兰代斯（Brandeis）大学历史系教授，同时在美国哈佛大学费正清东亚研究中心从事研究工作。除本书外，尚著有Imperialism and Chinese Nationalism: Germany in Shantung、Reform in nineteenth-century China（与Paul A. Cohen合编）等。

"Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an eloquent, pointed, and personal look at the question of whether culture determines econom...(展开全部)

These essays explore what happens when a skilful economist makes unconventional assumptions. Economic theory has traditionally relied upon a tacit and 'classical' set of assumptions that have gradually acquired a life of their own in defining how economists write and how they justify economic models. Similarly, these assumptions have acquired an autonomous character: they guide...(展开全部)

路易·迪蒙（1911—1998），是战后法国人类学界的代表人物，马塞尔·莫斯最有成就的弟子之一。他在人类学的理论和方法上都做出了非常重要的贡献：在理论上，他修正并深化了列维-斯特劳斯的结构主义，使结构主义从语言学的仆人回归到民族志的事实，从而复兴了社会学年鉴派的基本主张。在方法上，他结合了田野民族志和意识形态研究，落实了莫斯提出的“总体社会事实”原则。