托马斯·特劳特曼（Thomas R. Trautmann），美国历史学家、文化人类学家，密歇根大学历史与人类学荣休教授，曾任密歇根大学历史系主任和南亚研究中心主任。1997—2006年，担任《社会与历史比较研究》（Comparative Studies in Society and History）主编。著有《大象与国王：一部环境史》（Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History，2015年）、《语言与国家》（Languages and Nations，2006年）、《雅利安人与英属印度》（Aryans and British India，2004年）。 特劳特曼的研究主要集中在古代印度历史、人类学史和其他相关学科，尤其专精于研究古印度梵语论典。他还撰写了有关印度达罗毗荼人亲属关系和美国印第安人亲属关系的...(展开全部)

India: Brief History of a Civilization provides a brief overview of a very long period, allowing students to acquire a mental map of the entire history of Indian civilization in a short book. Most comprehensive histories devote a few chapters to the early history of India and an increasing number of pages to the more recent period, giving an impression that early history is mer...(展开全部)

This brief, best-selling Western civilization book has helped thousands of readers learn about the world they live in by exploring the story of its past. Jack Spielvogel's engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. Ea...(展开全部)

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news r...(展开全部)

After more than twenty-five years in print, A New History of India continues to be the most readable and popular one-volume history of India available. Now in its eighth edition, this acclaimed text features updated scholarship and bibliographic material throughout and integrates new research on such incisive topics as the Indian diaspora, the economy, and the nuclear issue. In...(展开全部)

A comprehensive history of Argentina, including its origins, culture, and future. Argentina has a population that ranks among the most educated and skilled in Latin America. Illiteracy scarcely exists among even the poor and working-class citizens, and Argentina's middle class has historically been large and politically engaged. Yet this country remains mired in economic instab...(展开全部)

The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It’s easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world ov...(展开全部)

Part of JRP|Ringer's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U....(展开全部)