Metals, Culture and Capitalism is an ambitious, broad-ranging account of the search for metals in Europe and the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution and the relationship between this and economic activity, socio-political structures and the development of capitalism. Continuing his criticism of Eurocentric traditions, a theme explored in The Theft of Hist...(展开全部)

Metals, Culture and Capitalism is an ambitious, broad-ranging account of the search for metals in Europe and the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution and the relationship between this and economic activity, socio-political structures and the development of capitalism. Continuing his criticism of Eurocentric traditions, a theme explored in The Theft of Hist...(展开全部)

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, construc...(展开全部)

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, construc...(展开全部)

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, construc...(展开全部)

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, construc...(展开全部)

拉尔夫・达仁道夫（Ralf Dahrendorf）勋爵1929年出生于德国汉堡的一个工人家庭。其父古斯塔夫・达仁道夫（Gustav Dahrendorf，1901―1954年）是德国有名的工人运动活动家和德国社会民主党领袖。不过，拉尔夫与他父亲的社会思想倾向不同，他自青年时代起就参加了德国自由民主党，在汉堡和伦敦攻读并获得哲学博士学位。在萨尔布吕肯通过教授资格论文后，他先后在汉堡、蒂宾根和康斯坦茨等大学担任社会学教授。 达仁道夫也积极从事政治活动。1968年，任联邦德国巴登一符腾堡州自由民主党副主席。1969年，当选联邦德国议院议员，任外交部议会国务秘书。1970―1974年，在布鲁塞尔担任欧洲共同体委员会委员。 1974年，达仁道夫移居英国。1974―1984年，出任著名的伦敦经济学院（The London School Econmics）院长。自...(展开全部)

An “exhilarating” (Irish Times) and “ambitious” (The Guardian) account of the ancient inheritance that made us who we are―and is now driving us to ruin. Why do humans everywhere believe in ghosts? How might our tendency to imitate one another be contributing to the climate catastrophe? And does our deep evolutionary past impel us to vote for strongmen? In 1987 Harvey Whitehouse...(展开全部)

The ancient inheritance that made us who we are—and is now driving us to ruin. Each of us is endowed with an inheritance—a set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For countless generations, this inheritance has taken us to ever greater heights: driving the rise of more sophisticated technologies, more organized religions, more expansive ...(展开全部)