Attempting to provide a sociological explanation of the Holocaust, the main theme of this work is the demonstration that the Holocaust has to be understood as deeply involved with the nature of modernity - neither a single event nor a simple outpouring of barbarism. The author discusses what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly concentrates upon the...(展开全部)

杰里米·M.布莱克，埃克塞特大学的历史学教授。他写过100多本书，包括《为美国而战：北美独立战争，1519?–?1871》（IUP，2011）和《战争和文化转变》。《地缘政治学与对统治地位的追逐》《知识的力量：信息与技术如何造就现代世界》《战争与技术》2008年，布莱克获得了军事历史协会颁发的“Samuel Eliot Morison Prize”（塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖）。

杰里米·M.布莱克，埃克塞特大学的历史学教授。他写过100多本书，包括《为美国而战：北美独立战争，1519?–?1871》（IUP，2011）和《战争和文化转变》。《地缘政治学与对统治地位的追逐》《知识的力量：信息与技术如何造就现代世界》《战争与技术》2008年，布莱克获得了军事历史协会颁发的“Samuel Eliot Morison Prize”（塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖）。

Noted Holocaust scholar David M. Crowe presents a distinct and comprehensive examination of one of the greatest human tragedies in modern history. Acclaimed scholar, professor, and writer in the field of Holocaust studies, David M. Crowe begins this compelling new text with a detailed overview of the history of the Jews, their two-millennia- old struggle with a larger Christian...(展开全部)

戴维·M·克罗（David M.Crowe），美国伊隆大学法学院法学教授和历史学教授、哥伦比亚大学民族研究协会名誉主席、美国大屠杀纪念博物馆教育委员会成员，出版过多部研究大屠杀的著作，2004年关于辛德勒的著作、2007年关于东欧吉卜赛人的著作都获得了美国历史读物俱乐部的选择奖。

The remains of General Francisco Franco lie in an immense mausoleum near Madrid, built with the blood and sweat of twenty thousand slave laborers. His enemies, however, met less-exalted fates. Besides those killed on the battlefield, tens of thousands were officially executed between 1936 and 1945, and as many again became "non-persons." As Spain finally reclaims its historical...(展开全部)

Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology. The contributors explore Chinese modernity through the psychosocial contradictions ex...(展开全部)

Kaveh Yazdani s work is hugely ambitious. It seeks simultaneously to attempt a micro-history of two advanced commercial regions of India Mysore and Gujarat in the eighteenth century and to intervene more broadly in the ongoing debates on modernity and its origins in the context of the great divergence between the west and the rest. In embarking on such a study, Yazdani treads a...(展开全部)