An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of wr...(展开全部)

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful c...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

Written by the author of "The Land", "Portrait of a Marriage" and "All Passion Spent", this is the story of Mr Jerrold who is proud of his fortune. He has no pride in his sons, but his daughter-in-law is his favourite until she develops a relationship with a rising Labour politician.

Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable life. Then she meets Miles, fifteen years her junior, and falls passionately in love. But both lovers have strong personalities and passion does not equal happiness. Evelyn, deeply jealous and conventional is shocked at her lover's casual ways and his insistence on working all day. Miles’s love for Evelyn...(展开全部)

罗伯特•C•艾伦（Robert C. Allen），北卡罗来纳大学历史系教授，主要研究美国大众娱乐与流行文化史，著有关于美国广播电视史的《话说肥皂剧》，关于美国19世纪与20世纪早期大众戏院的《令人不快的愉悦：杂耍表演与美国文化》。他开设有美国影视媒体史，全球化与民族身份，美国家庭社会变迁，社会与文化历史比较等课程。 道格拉斯•戈梅里（Douglas Gomery），马里兰大学美国广播与电影图书馆（世界五大广播图书馆之一）资深学者、荣休教授，曾在马里兰大学教授传播学，为《村声》杂志撰稿，出版了十余本关于美国媒体经济学与历史学的著作，如《好莱坞制片厂制度史》、《声音的到来》等，大量著作已被翻译为八种语言。

玛丽莲·斯托克斯塔德（著）： 教授、艺术史学家、策展人，曾任美国“高校艺术协会”（ College Art Association）主席、国际中世纪艺术中心主席，为斯潘塞艺术博物馆创始馆长，荣获美国女性艺术核心委员会（Women's Caucus for Art）终身成就奖、堪萨斯艺术委员会年度艺术教育家。《时代》杂志将她评为大学最受欢迎的100位女作家之一。 迈克尔·柯思伦（著）： 斯沃斯摩尔学院的艺术史教授，他曾任该院的美术系主任、中世纪研究协调员及人文中世纪、罗马艺术及建筑课程、美术通史课程等。 王春辰等（译）： 中央美术学院教授，博士生导师，中央美术学院美术馆副馆长，第55届威尼斯国际艺术双年展中国馆策展人，从事当代艺术与批评研究工作。

Table of Contents Preface 1 Outside and Inside History 2 The Sense of the Past 3 What Can History Tell Us about Contemporary Society? 4 Looking Forward: History and the Future 5 Has History Made Progress? 6 From Social History to the History of Society 7 Historians and Economists: I 8 Historians and Economists: II 9 Partisanship 10 What Do Historians Owe to Karl Marx? 11 Marx a...(展开全部)

This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of meth...(展开全部)