This book makes a selection of writings by the great medieval historian, Sir Richard Southern, available to the wider audience they deserve. A collection of writings by the great medieval historian, Sir Richard Southern. Offers a fascinating insight into the beliefs and ideas that underpinned Southern’s work. Contains the series of reflections on medieval historical writi...(展开全部)

Renowned for his 'Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy' and 'Reflections on History', Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97) has been described as "the most civilised historian of the nineteenth century". "Judgments on History and Historians" consists of records collected by Emil Durr from Burckhardt's lecture notes for history courses at the University of Basel from 1865 to 1885. The ...(展开全部)

Western Civilisation was in its pomp when Jacob Burckhardt delivered his Judgements on History and Historians; European Empires spanned the globe, while the modern age was being forged in the nationalist revolutions of 1848. As a tutor to the young Friedrich Nietzsche as well as one of the first historians to take 'culture' as his subject rather than the triumphs and travails...(展开全部)

Allyn Young is one of the central figures in the development of American economic thought, and is one of the originators of modern endogenous growth theory. This book allows full appreciation of the full extent of Young's work because many of his most significant contributions are buried in obscure journals and unsigned articles. This volume addresses this by reprinting much of...(展开全部)

Barnard was prompted by Vilfredo Pareto's seminal four volume work Mind and Society to apply his theories of sociology to management studies. Barnard's study of interaction between people in economic settings was contentious in that he concluded that human behaviour within these settings is largely non-economic and instead approaches ritualistic symbolism.

本书为西方史学家名著，自1913年初版以来，一再重版。作者古奇是英国第一流史学家。他博览群书，对十九世纪时的西方史学家作品很熟悉，对他们所写的人物(如拿破仑)或古代史(如希腊罗马的历史)都了如指掌，所以他对当时的史学家及其作品都有独到的评论。这部书也可以说是一部史学书评。

本书为西方史学家名著，自1913年初版以来，一再重版。作者古奇是英国第一流史学家。他博览群书，对十九世纪时的西方史学家作品很熟悉，对他们所写的人物(如拿破仑)或古代史(如希腊罗马的历史)都了如指掌，所以他对当时的史学家及其作品都有独到的评论。这部书也可以说是一部史学书评。

This fourth volume of Meyer Schapiro's Selected Papers contains his most important writings on the theory and philosophy of art. His highly lucid arguments, graceful prose, and extraordinary erudition guide readers through a rich variety of fields and issues including the roles in society of the artist and art, of the critic and criticism, and the relationships between patron a...(展开全部)

This fourth volume of Meyer Schapiro's Selected Papers contains his most important writings on the theory and philosophy of art. His highly lucid arguments, graceful prose, and extraordinary erudition guide readers through a rich variety of fields and issues including the roles in society of the artist and art, of the critic and criticism, and the relationships between patron a...(展开全部)