Fusing the social and economic history with the cultural and artistic achievements of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italy, this book presents a perspective on the period.

The age of Baroque witnessed the construction of some magnificent buildings, but what did the work of architects such as Bernini, Guarini and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo and Newton? In this book, George L. Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its shapes and experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He...(展开全部)

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distincti...(展开全部)

彼得·伯克是英国剑桥大学的文化史教授；剑桥大学埃马纽埃尔学院的研究员。他先前出版的著作包括：《欧洲近代早期的大众文化》（PopularCultureinEarlyModemEurope，1978）、《近代早期意大利的历史人类学解（HistoricaIAnthropologyofEarlyModernItaly，1987）、（《廷臣的命运》（The Fortunes ofthe Courtier，1995）、《历史学与社会理论》（hstoryandSociaL　ThoerY，1992）、《多元的文化史》（VarietiesofCulturalHistorp；1997）。

Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius is based on the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries. It introduces new data, as well as new ways to think about them - modes of analysis that, while familiar to archaeological practitioners in the West and in Japan, are herein applied to evidence from the Chinese Bronze Age for the first time. The treatment of social stratification...(展开全部)

Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research. The editors provide...(展开全部)

Robert Bagley is Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. His recent publications include the chapter on Shang archaeology in the Cambridge History of Ancient China and articles on Chinese bronzes, the origin of the Chinese writing system, and ancient Chinese music theory.

罗伯特·贝格利：普林斯顿大学艺术史与考古系退休荣誉教授，研究领域涉及新石器时代至青铜时代的艺术、考古、冶金、文字起源和音乐理论，近期著作包括Gombrich among the Egyptians（2015）、《剑桥世界史》第四卷的古代世界艺术以及Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History 的西周之前的中国青铜器时代等章节。 王海城：西雅图华盛顿大学艺术史系Mary and Cheney Cowles讲座副教授，致力于中国青铜时代与其他古代文明的比较研究，近期著作包括Writing and the Ancient State（2014）、《剑桥世界史》第三卷的中国早期文字与城市以及Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History的中国早期艺术等章节。