From the simple shell beads worn by Palaeolithic hunters to the splendour of Renaissance goldwork and the sumptuousness of Art Nouveau enamels, here is a guide to the evolution of Western jewelry, concluding with the radical and experimental developments of the last three decades. Offering a survey of the entire field, the book is organized into chronological sections starting ...(展开全部)

Humour is without doubt a vital element of the human condition but it has rarely been the subject of serious historical research. Yet a closer look at jokes and other comic phenomena shows us that the nature of humour changes from one period to another, and that these changes can provide us with important insights into the social and cultural developments of the past. This impo...(展开全部)

Humour is without doubt a vital element of the human condition but it has rarely been the subject of serious historical research. Yet a closer look at jokes and other comic phenomena shows us that the nature of humour changes from one period to another, and that these changes can provide us with important insights into the social and cultural developments of the past. This impo...(展开全部)

There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any cl...(展开全部)

托马斯·马太(Thomas F. Matthews)是纽约大学美术研究所的艺术学教授，先后有多篇论文和多本专著论述早期基督教、拜占庭文化和建筑。

佩里·安德森（PERRY ANDERSON），英国历史学家、社会学家，1938年生于伦敦，现任美国加利福尼亚州立大学洛杉矶分校历史与社会学教授，英国《新左派评论》期刊负责人。《从古代封建主义的过渡》及其续作《绝对主义国家的系谱》出版于1974年（伦敦新左派丛书）是在西方历史学、历史社会学与马克思主义学理论领域有重大影响的生要著作。

The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson’s highly acclaimed and influential Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes take...(展开全部)

佩里·安德森（PERRY ANDERSON），英国历史学家、社会学家，1938年生于伦敦，现任美国加利福尼亚州立大学洛杉矶分校历史与社会学教授，英国《新左派评论》期刊负责人。《从古代封建主义的过渡》及其续作《绝对主义国家的系谱》出版于1974年（伦敦新左派丛书）是在西方历史学、历史社会学与马克思主义学理论领域有重大影响的生要著作。

The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson’s highly acclaimed and influential Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes take...(展开全部)