E.J. Weber examined school records, migration patterns, military service documents and economic trends to argue that until the middle of the Third Republic, a sense of French nationhood was weak in the provinces. Weber then looked at how the policies of the Third Republic created a sense of French nationality in rural areas. The book was widely praised, but was criticized by so...(展开全部)

E.J. Weber was born in Britain, graduating with a BA in 1950 and an MA from Cambridge in 1954. In 1950, he married Jacqueline Brument-Roth. Weber taught at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1953–1954) and the University of Alberta (1954–1955) before settling in the United States, where he taught first at the University of Iowa (1955–1956) and then, until 1993, at the University of C...(展开全部)

Winner of the National Book Award for history, The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, an...(展开全部)

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and ...(展开全部)

迪迪埃·法兰克福：法国洛林大学现代史教授，在欧洲历史文化、音乐史研究领域有极高造诣。除本书以外，另与他人合著《听到战争：14—18世纪的声音、音乐和沉默》（伽里玛出版社，2014），《他人的品味：18—21世纪欧洲美食，从相异到相同》（洛林南锡大学出版社，2015）。

迪迪埃·法兰克福：法国洛林大学现代史教授，在欧洲历史文化、音乐史研究领域有极高造诣。除本书以外，另与他人合著《听到战争：14—18世纪的声音、音乐和沉默》（伽里玛出版社，2014），《他人的品味：18—21世纪欧洲美食，从相异到相同》（洛林南锡大学出版社，2015）。

Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia's political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s–1970s), South Korea (1950s–1970s), and China (1980s–2000s), Kristen E. Looney shows that different types of development outcomes—imp...(展开全部)

Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia's political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s–1970s), South Korea (1950s–1970s), and China (1980s–2000s), Kristen E. Looney shows that different types of development outcomes—imp...(展开全部)

This book explores different approaches to peasant studies; the origins of peasantry; major agricultural adaptations; social organizations; aspects of religion and ideology; peasant movements; the peasant's relation to markets and non-peasant groups; and their problems in the modern world.