Cities, scripts, literature, the rule of law – all were born in Iraq. That so many see this ancient land as nothing more than a violent backwater steeped in chaos is a travesty. This is the place where, for the first 5,000 years of human history, all innovations of worth emerged. It was the cradle of civilization.

Cities, scripts, literature, the rule of law – all were born in Iraq. That so many see this ancient land as nothing more than a violent backwater steeped in chaos is a travesty. This is the place where, for the first 5,000 years of human history, all innovations of worth emerged. It was the cradle of civilization.

Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community—which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years—was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic nation-state. It studies their ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism, modernity,...(展开全部)

奥里特·巴什金，芝加哥大学历史学系教授。主要研究方向为现代中东思想史、社会史和文化史。2005年在普林斯顿大学获得历史系博士学位，之后一直在芝加哥大学任教，出版了有关伊拉克历史、伊拉克犹太人历史、19世纪后期阿拉伯文化复兴运动，以及现代阿拉伯历史与阿拉伯文学之间联系的书籍。她目前的研究项目是探索在以色列的伊拉克犹太人的生活。

斯拉沃热·齐泽克，斯洛文尼亚卢布尔雅那大学社会学和哲学高级研究员，拉康传统最重要的继承人，他长期致力于沟通拉康精神分析理论与马克思主义哲学，将精神分析、主体性、意识形态和大众文化熔于一炉，形成了极为独特的学术思想和政治立场，成为20世纪90年代以来最为耀眼的国际学术明星之一，被一些学者称为黑格尔式的思想家。他曾任法国巴黎第八大学、美国明尼苏达大学、哥伦比亚大学、普林斯顿大学等许多知名高等院校的访问教授、活跃于各种哲学、精神分析和文化批评国际学术讨论会，所到之处儿乎都引起广泛的注意。詹姆逊说他“发出了一种不平常的声音，我们将在今后数年内反复聆听”。伊格尔顿评价他是欧洲近十年来最重要的思想家之一。

黄仁宇，生于湖南长沙，1936年入天津南开大学电机工程系就读。抗日战争爆发后，先在长沙《抗日战报》工作，后来进入国民党成都中央军校，1950年退伍。其后赴美攻读历史，获学士、硕士、博士学位。曾任哥伦比亚大学访问副教授及哈佛大学东亚研究所研究员。参与《明代名人传》及《剑桥中国史》的集体研究工作。

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism? Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation, it has been continually redefined as new generations of women campaign against the gend...(展开全部)

黄仁宇，生于湖南长沙，1936年入天津南开大学电机工程系就读。抗日战争爆发后，先在长沙《抗日战报》工作，后来进入国民党成都中央军校，1950年退伍。其后赴美攻读历史，获学士、硕士、博士学位。曾任哥伦比亚大学访问副教授及哈佛大学东亚研究所研究员。参与《明代名人传》及《剑桥中国史》的集体研究工作。

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)