Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. The distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-...(展开全部)

杰弗里·帕克（Geoffrey Parker） 历史学家，现任美国俄亥俄州立大学安德烈亚斯·多帕伦欧洲史教授、莫尚国际安全研究中心成员，英国学术院院士，曾获得2012年喜力历史（Heineken Prize for History），2014年凭《全球危机》获得英国学术院奖章（British Academy Medal）。另著有《腓力二世的大战略》《军事革命》《莽撞的国王》《皇帝》等书。

As climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change? In this thought-provoking book, Caroline Levine makes the case for an alternative view, arguing that humanists have the tools to mobilize political power—and the responsibility to use those too...(展开全部)

As climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change? In this thought-provoking book, Caroline Levine makes the case for an alternative view, arguing that humanists have the tools to mobilize political power—and the responsibility to use those too...(展开全部)

The story of globalization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as experienced by ordinary people in the Chinese river town of Zhenjiang. Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers gathered outside the city walls in the summer of 1842. Already suspicious of foreigners, locals had also heard of the suffering the British inflicted two months earlier, in Zhapu. A wave of ...(展开全部)

Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the" New Yorker," for which she won a National Magazine Award in 2006, Kolbert cuts through the competing rhetoric and political agendas to elucida...(展开全部)

卜正民（Timothy Brook），哈佛大学哲学博士，不列颠哥伦比亚大学历史系讲座教授，加拿大皇家学会会员，2015—2016年度亚洲研究学会（Association for Asian Studies）会长。曾任多伦多、斯坦福、牛津等大学历史学教授，不列颠哥伦比亚大学圣约翰学院院长。主要研究明代社会和文化史、中国近代史、全球史，并担任哈佛大学出版社《帝制中国历史》主编。2005年获加拿大历史协会颁发的历史学奖项弗朗索瓦‧泽维尔‧加诺奖章，2006年获颁古根海姆学术奖。代表著作有《纵乐的困惑》《维米尔的帽子》《为权力祈祷》《秩序的沦陷》《塞尔登的中国地图》等。

卜正民（Timothy Brook），哈佛大学哲学博士，不列颠哥伦比亚大学历史系讲座教授，加拿大皇家学会会员，2015—2016年度亚洲研究学会（Association for Asian Studies）会长。曾任多伦多、斯坦福、牛津等大学历史学教授，不列颠哥伦比亚大学圣约翰学院院长。主要研究明代社会和文化史、中国近代史、全球史，并担任哈佛大学出版社《帝制中国历史》主编。2005年获加拿大历史协会颁发的历史学奖项弗朗索瓦‧泽维尔‧加诺奖章，2006年获颁古根海姆学术奖。代表著作有《纵乐的困惑》《维米尔的帽子》《为权力祈祷》《秩序的沦陷》《塞尔登的中国地图》等。