彼得·图尔钦（Peter Turchin），进化人类学家，牛津大学人类学学院副研究员、进化研究所副所长。其研究方向包括文化演进、经济史、历史宏观社会学、历史计量学、社会进程的数学建模、历史数据库的构建与分析等。著有《战争，和平，战争》《失调时代：美国历史上的结构人口分析》《历史动力学：国家为何兴衰》等。

彼得·图尔钦（Peter Turchin），进化人类学家，牛津大学人类学学院副研究员、进化研究所副所长。其研究方向包括文化演进、经济史、历史宏观社会学、历史计量学、社会进程的数学建模、历史数据库的构建与分析等。著有《战争，和平，战争》《失调时代：美国历史上的结构人口分析》《历史动力学：国家为何兴衰》等。

彼得·图尔钦（Peter Turchin），进化人类学家，牛津大学人类学学院副研究员、进化研究所副所长。其研究方向包括文化演进、经济史、历史宏观社会学、历史计量学、社会进程的数学建模、历史数据库的构建与分析等。著有《战争，和平，战争》《失调时代：美国历史上的结构人口分析》《历史动力学：国家为何兴衰》等。

In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes his most accessible critique yet of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasi...(展开全部)

This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to village leaders. In the introduction and conclusion the editors reassess the pioneerin...(展开全部)

This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to village leaders. In the introduction and conclusion the editors reassess the pioneerin...(展开全部)

With the Qing Dynasty reform efforts (1901–1911), abolition of the civil service examination (1905), and the end of the monarchy (1912), the first three decades of the twentieth century brought important changes to the elite of Zhejiang Province. This book examines the social backgrounds, public activities, careers, and decision-making of local and provincial elites—that is, no...(展开全部)

With the Qing Dynasty reform efforts (1901–1911), abolition of the civil service examination (1905), and the end of the monarchy (1912), the first three decades of the twentieth century brought important changes to the elite of Zhejiang Province. This book examines the social backgrounds, public activities, careers, and decision-making of local and provincial elites—that is, no...(展开全部)

Description Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Italian social theorist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly readable English translation of Pareto's last monograph "Generalizations," originally published in 1920, this work illustrates how and why democratic forms of government undergo decay and are eventually reinvigorated. More tha...(展开全部)

Description Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Italian social theorist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly readable English translation of Pareto's last monograph "Generalizations," originally published in 1920, this work illustrates how and why democratic forms of government undergo decay and are eventually reinvigorated. More tha...(展开全部)