The administrative state is a powerful tool because it can control the population and, in moments of crisis, help leaders put down popular threats to their rule. But a state does not act; bureaucrats work through the state to carry out a leader's demands. In turn, leaders attempt to use their authority over the state to manage bureaucrats in a way that induces bureaucratic beha...(展开全部)

The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approach...(展开全部)

作者:(美)艾伯特·O.赫希曼 译者:卢昌崇 艾伯特·O.赫希曼，1915年生于德国柏林。1941年移民美国，先后在伯克利、耶鲁、哈佛从事研究和教学工作，1974年加入普林斯顿大学高级研究所。赫希曼一生著述颇丰，以英语出版的著作有14部，以其他语言出版的有10部，大多数著作被译成多国语言，如《经济发展战略>)被译成十多国语言。

An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one, "exit," is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to ...(展开全部)

Winner of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Book Prize 2023 Studies the making and unmaking of the Ottoman Empire’s Kurdish nobility Challenges a long-standing spatial-geographical bias in Ottoman-Middle East history by bringing Kurdish and Armenian histories back into the Ottoman imperial framework Presents the first study to use the framework of hereditary nobility ...(展开全部)

Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War—while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby’s best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged ...(展开全部)

Conjuring all the sweep of a great nineteenth-century novel, acclaimed author William Dalrymple unearths the fascinating story of the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, James Kirkpatrick, who in 1798 fell in love with the great-niece of the Hyderabadi prime minister. To marry her, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam and even became a double agent working agains...(展开全部)

著有《仙那度》（In Xanadu）、《精灵之城》（City of Djinns）、《圣山来客》（From the Holy Mountain）、《迦梨时代》(The Age of Kali)、《白莫卧儿人》（White Mughals）、《最后的莫卧儿人》（The Last Mughal）以及最新出版的《九种人生》（Nine Lives）。他曾获汤玛斯·库克旅游文学奖(Thomas Cook Travel Book Award)、《星期日泰晤士报》年度英国年轻作家奖(Young British Writer of the Year Award)、法国星盘图书奖(French Prix d’Astrolabe)、沃尔夫森历史奖(Wolfson Prize for History)、苏格兰年度图书大奖(Scottish Book of the Year...(展开全部)

Conjuring all the sweep of a great nineteenth-century novel, acclaimed author William Dalrymple unearths the fascinating story of the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, James Kirkpatrick, who in 1798 fell in love with the great-niece of the Hyderabadi prime minister. To marry her, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam and even became a double agent working agains...(展开全部)

In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes his most accessible critique yet of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasi...(展开全部)