While this book will not have the impact of Davis's City of Quartz--a scathing indictment of L.A.'s environmental ravagement, economic disparity and racial divides--in a perfect world, it would. Its subject is nothing less than the creation of what we now call "The Third World," through a complex series of seemingly disparate natural and market-related events beginning in the 1...(展开全部)

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how developme...(展开全部)

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how developme...(展开全部)

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how developme...(展开全部)

In 1999, few people had thought to examine the effects of climate on civilization. Now, due in part to the groundbreaking work of archaeologist Brian Fagan, climate change is a central issue. Revised and updated ten years after its first publication, Floods, Famines and Emperors remains the definitive account of how the world’s best-known climate event had an indelible impact...(展开全部)

布赖恩•费根（Brian Fagan)， 剑桥大学考古学及人类学博士。曾出版多本畅销文化读物。1967年至2003年，费根在美国加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉分校担任人类学教授。他致力于向公众推广考古及人类学知识。近几年国内陆续出版了几本费根作品的中译本，受到广泛关注。

In this work, Peter Brown presents a history of Roman society in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries. He interprets the changes in social patterns and religious thought in an attempt to break away from conventional modern images of the period.

Peter Brown presents a masterly history of Roman society in the second, third, and fourth centuries. Brown interprets the changes in social patterns and religious thought, breaking away from conventional modern images of the period.

The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and t...(展开全部)

《全球冷战》令人印象深刻的地方就是作者驾驭多边档案史料的功底。在书中，文安立不但使用了公开出版的史料集、回忆录、博士论文及其他二手资料，而且触摸了大量为世人所不了解的多边档案，其中了包括了俄罗斯（苏联）、中国、塞尔维亚和黑山、意大利、德国、美国和南非等数国，涉及了多种所在国语言。这充分体现了 作者高超的语言使用能力和史料梳理技艺，令人赞叹。在充分的事实基础上，作者为我们详细地描述了美苏两国干涉第三世界国家的全景史画，并突出了二者彼此相异的意识形态诉求和策略手段。而且，他将笔触一直延伸至21世纪初的当代世界，顺流直下，将干涉史的影响与当代国际热点问题紧密、妥当地联系在一起，显现了其炽热的现实关怀热情。