Engineers are empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and a host of lesser known figures worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology founded on and sustained by durable networks of trust and expertise. In so doing these engineers and their heirs also became active agents of political and economic empire. Indeed...(展开全部)

Engineers are empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and a host of lesser known figures worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology founded on and sustained by durable networks of trust and expertise. In so doing these engineers and their heirs also became active agents of political and economic empire. Indeed...(展开全部)

John Theodore Merz (1840-1922) was an industrial chemist and philosopher who came to Britain from his native Germany in 1867. His life-long work was dominated by the desire to contribute towards the unification of knowledge. Uniting the two cultures of science and the arts, Merz's "History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century" is an extended survey of the development o...(展开全部)

西蒙·沙玛（Simon Schama)，英国国家学术院院士、皇家文学学会会员。他1945年出生于伦敦，21岁在剑桥大学以优等生身份毕业，随后在剑桥大学和牛津大学教书。1977 年，他出版第一部专著《爱国者和解放者》，即获沃尔夫森历史奖。1980年，在哈佛大学谋得教席，后“转会”至哥伦比亚大学担任教授。在美国期间，他陆续出版了多本学术著作，获得了学界的极大关注和大批读者的认可。其中《财富的窘境》（1987）、《公民们》（1989）分别获得当年的《纽约时报书评》年度好书奖，《风景与记忆》（1995）获得W.H.史密斯文学奖。 1995年，沙玛受邀将《风景与记忆》改编为系列电视片，充分展示了其叙事功底和画面意识。之后，BBC邀请沙玛编写并主持大型纪录片《英国史》。沙玛特地迁回英国，专心投身于《英国史》的创作。这部15集的电视片于2000年开播，赢得如潮好评...(展开全部)

西蒙·沙玛（Simon Schama)，英国国家学术院院士、皇家文学学会会员。他1945年出生于伦敦，21岁在剑桥大学以优等生身份毕业，随后在剑桥大学和牛津大学教书。1977 年，他出版第一部专著《爱国者和解放者》，即获沃尔夫森历史奖。1980年，在哈佛大学谋得教席，后“转会”至哥伦比亚大学担任教授。在美国期间，他陆续出版了多本学术著作，获得了学界的极大关注和大批读者的认可。其中《财富的窘境》（1987）、《公民们》（1989）分别获得当年的《纽约时报书评》年度好书奖，《风景与记忆》（1995）获得W.H.史密斯文学奖。 1995年，沙玛受邀将《风景与记忆》改编为系列电视片，充分展示了其叙事功底和画面意识。之后，BBC邀请沙玛编写并主持大型纪录片《英国史》。沙玛特地迁回英国，专心投身于《英国史》的创作。这部15集的电视片于2000年开播，赢得如潮好评...(展开全部)

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost h...(展开全部)

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost h...(展开全部)

查尔斯·辛格，英国学者，毕业于伦敦大学学院、莫德林学院，主攻动物学和医药学，在科学史领域成果颇丰。

本书为西方史学家名著，自1913年初版以来，一再重版。作者古奇是英国第一流史学家。他博览群书，对十九世纪时的西方史学家作品很熟悉，对他们所写的人物(如拿破仑)或古代史(如希腊罗马的历史)都了如指掌，所以他对当时的史学家及其作品都有独到的评论。这部书也可以说是一部史学书评。