Where does architecture belong in the larger scheme of things? Is it a liberal art? Is it related to painting, music, medicine, or horse training? Is it timeless, or does it have a beginning? To pursue such questions, Stephen Parcell investigates four historical definitions of Western architecture: as a techne in ancient Greece, a mechanical art in medieval Europe, an art of di...(展开全部)

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial building. His construct of "four ecologies" examined the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways,...(展开全部)

In the last thirty years, work in analytic philosophy of art has flourished, and it has given rise to considerably controversy. Stephen Davies describes and analyzes the definition of art as it has been discussed in Anglo-American philosophy during this period and, in the process, introduces his own perspective on ways in which we should reorient our thinking.Davies conceives o...(展开全部)

Peter Reyner Banham Hon. FRIBA was an English architectural critic and writer best known for his theoretical treatise Theory and Design in the First Machine Age and for his 1971 book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial building. His construct of 'four ecologies' examined the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways,...(展开全部)

China's "Great Leap Forward" of 1958-1961 was a time of official rejoicing over the achievements of Communism, but it was also a time of immense suffering. Growing dissent among intellectuals stimulated creativity as writers sought to express both their hope for the success of the revolution and their dissatisfaction with the Party leadership and policies. But the uneasy politi...(展开全部)

China's "Great Leap Forward" of 1958-1961 was a time of official rejoicing over the achievements of Communism, but it was also a time of immense suffering. Growing dissent among intellectuals stimulated creativity as writers sought to express both their hope for the success of the revolution and their dissatisfaction with the Party leadership and policies. But the uneasy politi...(展开全部)

This Handbook consists of 26 chapters on historical sociology. It is divided into three parts. Part One is devoted to Foundations and covers Marx, Weber, evolutionary and functionalist approaches, the Annales School, Elias, Nelson and Eisenstadt. Part Two moves on to consider major approaches, such as modernization approaches, late Marxist approaches, historical geography, inst...(展开全部)

保罗·维诺格拉多夫爵士，1854年生于俄国科斯特罗马（Kostroma）。父亲是一所中学的校长。他16岁进入莫斯科大学，后又在柏林求学，曾受教于蒙森（Theodor Mommsen）和布伦纳（Heinrich Brunner）。1877年维诺格拉多夫回到莫斯科大学任教，讲授中世纪史。1883年前往英国为自己的博士论文收集资料，后写成《英格兰维兰制》（Villainage in England），先以俄语出版，1892年译为英语。该书为他获得了广泛的赞誉。维诺格拉多夫在政治上属于自由诉。回到莫斯科后他参与政治，当选为莫斯科市议会议员，并任教育委员会主席。在他主持下推行了许多教育改革措施。1901年因抗议政府限制大学的自由辞去教授职位，与妻儿一同移居英国。到英国后任牛津大学教授，直至1925年去世。他向牛津大学引入了德国的研讨班教学法。维诺格拉多夫后期的...(展开全部)