With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate lover of another schoolmistress, s...(展开全部)

米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault，1926-1984），法国哲学家。他以其无比渊博的学识、才华横溢的文笔、惊世骇俗的思想，深刻影响了后现代主义、权力分析与社会理论、新文化史、刑罚史、身体史、性史、女性主义与酷儿理论，以及文学与艺术批评等各种时代思潮。其主要作品有：《古典时代疯狂史》《词与物》《性经验史》“法兰西学院演讲系列”等。

Présentation de l'éditeur Michel Foucault projetait de faire une collection intitulée les vies parallèles. Il a consacré le premier volume au dossier de l'hermaphrodite Herculine Barbin (1838-1868). " Les Anciens, écrivait Michel Foucault, aimaient à mettre en parallèle les vies des hommes illustres ; on écoutait parler à travers les siècles ces ombres exemplaires. " Les parall...(展开全部)

米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault，1926-1984），法国哲学家。他以其无比渊博的学识、才华横溢的文笔、惊世骇俗的思想，深刻影响了后现代主义、权力分析与社会理论、新文化史、刑罚史、身体史、性史、女性主义与酷儿理论，以及文学与艺术批评等各种时代思潮。其主要作品有：《古典时代疯狂史》《词与物》《性经验史》“法兰西学院演讲系列”等。

After Napoleon’s downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a new global history of French imperialism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the mechanisms of imperial collaboration that extended France’s power from the Middle East to ...(展开全部)

After Napoleon’s downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a new global history of French imperialism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the mechanisms of imperial collaboration that extended France’s power from the Middle East to ...(展开全部)

One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it ...(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)

【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)