For 1,300 years, Chinese calligraphy was based on the elegant art of Wang Xizhi (AD303-361). But the 17th-century emergence of a style modelled on the rough, broken epigraphs of ancient bronzes and stone artifacts brought a revolution in calligraphic taste. By the 18th century, this led to the formation of the stele school of calligraphy, which continues to shape Chinese callig...(展开全部)

Thinking with Objects offers a fresh view of the transformation that took place in mechanics during the 17th century. By giving center stage to objects-levers, inclined planes, beams, pendulums, springs, and falling and projected bodies-Domenico Bertoloni Meli provides a unique and comprehensive portrayal of mechanics as practitioners understood it at the time. Bertoloni Meli r...(展开全部)

Thinking with Objects offers a fresh view of the transformation that took place in mechanics during the 17th century. By giving center stage to objects-levers, inclined planes, beams, pendulums, springs, and falling and projected bodies-Domenico Bertoloni Meli provides a unique and comprehensive portrayal of mechanics as practitioners understood it at the time. Bertoloni Meli r...(展开全部)

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 于尔根•奥斯特哈默（Jürgen Osterhammel），1952年生，曾在伦敦德国史研究所和弗莱堡大学工作，现为康斯坦茨大学近现代史教授。他出版过大量有关18世纪以来的欧亚历史著作。其作品包括《中国与世界：十八世纪至当代》（获得德国史学家协会奖）《中国革命: 1925年5月30日, 上海》《世界的演变：19世纪史》等。于尔根•奥斯特哈默因其在历史学研究中的卓越成就分别于2010年和2016年获得莱布尼茨奖、汤因比奖。目前，他正在从事2 0世纪的去殖民化史研究，并和入江昭（Akira Iriye）合作主编6卷本《世界史》（A History of the World）。 · 【译者简介】 强朝晖，职业译者，译有《中国冲击》《水的政治》等。 刘风，北京外国语大学德语系毕业，德语同传译员，自由职业翻译，译有《正午的单车》、《完美三月》和《...(展开全部)

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtak...(展开全部)

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtak...(展开全部)