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)

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)

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)

沃尔特·科恩是密歇根大学安阿伯分校的英语系的名誉教授，曾于 2014 年至 2024 年在该校任教。他还是康奈尔大学比较文学系的名誉教授，曾于 1980 年至 2014 年在该校任教。在那里，他获得了杰出教学奖，并担任了二十年各种行政职务，包括研究生院院长和大学副教务长。他著有《国家的戏剧：英格兰与西班牙的公共剧场》（1985），并发表了大量关于早期现代文学、文学批评、小说史和世界文学的文章。他还是第三版的“诺顿莎士比亚”系列（2015）的主编之一。本书英文版于 2017 年由牛津大学出版社出版。他目前正在撰写一本暂定名为《文学史的逻辑：因果、解释、诠释》的书。该书将探讨生态灾难文学、过去五千年的非洲文学、犹太文学语言、社会阶层文学以及文学的社会功能等主题。

China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared s...(展开全部)

China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared s...(展开全部)