马里乌斯·詹森（Marius Jansen, 1922-2000），哈佛大学博士，普林斯顿大学荣誉教授，日本史、中日关系史专家。1969年创立普林斯顿大学东亚研究系，并担任首任主任。1999年成为首位获得日本文化功劳者称号的外国人。《剑桥日本史》主编，代表作有《日本人与 孙中山》 （1954）、《坂本龙马与明治维新》（1961）、《日本人的世界观》（1975）、《日本和中国：从战争到和平，1894—1972》（1975）、《德川时代与中国文化》（1992）、《现代日本的形成》（2000）等。 柳立言，普林斯顿大学博士，中研院历史语言研究所研究员，研究方向为宋代法律和社会史，著作包括《宋代的宗教、身分与司法》《宋代的家庭和法律》等。

Long recognized as an authority on Japanese history, Marius Jansen synthesizes a lifetime of scholarship in this landmark book. Bringing together the series of Brown and Haley lectures delivered in 1975 at the University of Puget Sound, Japan and Its World continues to be a source of insight for anyone interested in the changing ideas the Japanese have had of themselves, the Un...(展开全部)

With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains a formidable economy and its political system is healthier than...(展开全部)

War and Change in World Politics introduces the reader to an important new theory of international political change. Arguing that the fundamental nature of international relations has not changed over the millennia, Professor Gilpin uses history, sociology, and economic theory to identify the forces causing change in the world order. The discussion focuses on the differential g...(展开全部)

From Scientific American Spruyt ... shows that sovereign states of Europe emerged from the decline of feudalism as urban units gained freedom and formed leagues.... He also puts into perspective the European Union that today's nationstates are attempting to put together.... A significant contribution to political science and to European history. From The New Yorker Spruyt takes...(展开全部)

When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly antiforeign, and committed to the traditions of the past. Before long, the shogun surrendered to the emperor, a new constitution w...(展开全部)

在自卡尔•马克思的《共产主义宣言》出版以来的一个半世纪中，这个负载马克思名字的学说在平等和正义的名义下为数百万人所接受却又戏剧性地，随着共产主义在西方世界的衰落而失去了它的魅力。然而，就在自由市场在被看作是灾难性的对管制的退避的核爆中走向极限的时候，对资本主义最严格、最有说服力的敌人的重新评价，前所未有地及时。 埃里克•霍布斯鲍姆提供了一种迷人的、充满洞见的对马克思主义的总体回顾。他探索了马克思主义的多种影响来源——从对贵格会运动到马基雅维利——以及马克思主义在法国大革命和德国哲学中的源流。他对马克思主义思想家即核心文本——从恩格斯的《工人阶级的境况》到葛兰西的《狱中笔记》到《共产主义宣言》本身——进行了考察，并对过去三十年来马克思主义的时运的惊人反转进行了分析。通过出色、深刻、充满能量且内容广泛的工作，《如何改变世界》毫无疑问地向我们展示了这点：卡...(展开全部)

In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The first section of the book explores the gradual change from the medieval attitude to children, looked upon as small adults as soon as they were past infancy, to the seventeenth and eighteenth century awareness of the...(展开全部)

In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya Station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming nationally and even internationally famous for his purported loyalty. A year...(展开全部)