阿诺尔德·J·汤因比，1889年4月14日生于伦敦，卒于1975年10月22日。英国历史学家。牛津大学毕业，曾任该校研究员（1912-1915）。第一次世界大战时期曾在英国外交部情报部工作（1915）；战后作为英国代表团的成员出席过巴黎和会（1919）。二十世纪二十年代先后担任过伦敦大学教授（1924）、皇家国际问题研究所部长（1925）、伦敦大学国际关系史教授。二次大战时期曾任英国外交部调查部长（1943-1946）。1921年他计划巨著《历史研究》，1927-1928年着手写作。 1934-1961年出版了12卷，评述世界历史。注重无文字记载的文明和欧洲以外地区文明。提出一种以分析各种文明的循环和衰落为基础的历史哲学。因其他事务(1939-1943年任皇家国际事务学会外事部研究室主任、1943-1946年任外交部研究司司长等)而中断巨著的继续写作...(展开全部)

格奥尔格·伊格尔斯（Georg G. Iggers, 1926—2017），国际知名的欧洲思想史、史学史和史学理论学者，生前曾在美国纽约州立大学布法罗校区任历史系杰出教授多年。著有《德国的历史观念：从赫尔德至今的历史思想传统》《欧洲史学新方向》《二十世纪的历史学：从科学的客观性到后现代的挑战》等，被翻译成包括中文在内的十多种文字。 王晴佳，美国新泽西州罗文大学历史系教授，北京大学长江学者，国际史学史、史学理论委员会理事。长于比较史学史、史学理论和比较文化史，主要著作包括《西方的历史观念：从古希腊到现代》《后现代与历史学：中西比较》《新史学讲演录》《外国史学史》等。 苏普里娅·穆赫吉（Supriya Mukherjee），任教于加拿大马尼托巴大学（University of Manitoba），对印度史学和德国史有深入的观察和研究。

So far histories of historiography have concentrated almost exclusively on the West. This is the first book to offer a history of modern historiography from a global perspective. Tracing the transformation of historical writings over the past two and half centuries, the book portrays the transformation of historical writings under the affect of professionalization, which served...(展开全部)

Was ice cream invented in Philadelphia? How about by the Emperor Nero, when he poured honey over snow? Did Marco Polo first taste it in China and bring recipes back? In this first book to tell ice cream's full story, Jeri Quinzio traces the beloved confection from its earliest appearances in sixteenth-century Europe to the small towns of America and debunks some colorful myths ...(展开全部)

Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that...(展开全部)

The first book on historiography to adopt a global and comparative perspective on the topic, A Global History of Modern Historiography looks not just at developments in the West but also at the other great historiographical traditions in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere around the world over the course of the past two and a half centuries. This second edition contains fully...(展开全部)

An indepth treatise on the history of human communication with archival interviews and research of those who have studied it as an intrical part of the social sciences. Paper. DLC: Communication History - 19th Century.

This book guides students through all the central historical concepts, theories, methods and problems confronting those engaged in the serious study of history.