HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy expanded fivefold, millions of families emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out new lives, technology revolutionised communications, while steamships and railways cut across v...(展开全部)

阿图罗·吉拉尔德斯（Arturo Giraldez） 太平洋大学（University of the Pacific）现代语言和文学系及国际研究学院教授，加州大学圣芭芭拉分校（University of California, Santa Barbara）客座教授，主要研究领域为太平洋历史与西班牙世界的文化历史。

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。

HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy expanded fivefold, millions of families emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out new lives, technology revolutionised communications, while steamships and railways cut across v...(展开全部)

A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so wi...(展开全部)

The early 1830s witnessed an extraordinary transformation in British political, literary, and intellectual life. New scientific disciplines begin to take shape, while new concepts of the natural world were hotly debated. James Secord, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, captures this unique moment of change by exploring key books, including Charles Lyell's Principles...(展开全部)

A powerful and prophetic challenge to globalization from a former partisan of the New Right.