Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns became filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. In this far-reaching stud...(展开全部)

Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns became filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. In this far-reaching stud...(展开全部)

Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns became filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. In this far-reaching stud...(展开全部)

Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns became filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. In this far-reaching stud...(展开全部)

彼得•布林布尔科姆（Peter Brimblecombe） 澳大利亚著名大气化学家，国际著名大气环境期刊Atmospheric Environment的主编，东安格利亚大学环境科学学院大气化学教授。

彼得•布林布尔科姆（Peter Brimblecombe） 澳大利亚著名大气化学家，国际著名大气环境期刊Atmospheric Environment的主编，东安格利亚大学环境科学学院大气化学教授。

This unique volume summarizes and reflects the work of a leading voice in the history of Classics in Britain, bringing together both previously published articles, now newly revised, and never before published work. Topics range from the school classroom to the politics of universities, and from the social uses of classical knowledge to the publishing of textbooks: although the...(展开全部)

[英]格瑞斯·戴维（Grace Davie），国际著名社会学家，英国埃克塞特大学宗教社会学荣休教授，国际社会学协会宗教社会学分会第22届学术委员会轮值主席（2002～2006年）、美洲宗教社会学协会主席（2003年）。她的著作有Religion in Modern Europe (2000)、Europe: The Exceptional Case (2002)、The Sociology of Religion (Sage 2007,2013)等。 隋嘉滨，中国人民大学社会学博士，日本爱知大学中国研究学博士。律师。现为社会科学文献出版社编辑。相关博士学位论文有《建堂——当代北京基督教研究》，相关译著有《英国的宗教与法律》《基督教与法律》《七国宗教法制的基础与前沿》《俄国的东正教与劝诱改宗》《当今世界的宗教人权》《法治与宗教》等。 冯燕，北京联合大学...(展开全部)

This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constitute...(展开全部)