For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed success. Power over Peoples examines Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology, from the first Portuguese ships that ve...(展开全部)

For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed success. "Power over Peoples" examines Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology, from the first Portuguese ships that ...(展开全部)

Now updated — A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industri...(展开全部)

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped-and have been shaped by-the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism,...(展开全部)

[美] 彭慕兰 Kenneth Pomeranz 著名历史学家，曾任美国历史学会会长（2013—2014），“加州学派”代表人物。1980年于康奈尔大学获学士学位，1988年于耶鲁大学获博士学位，师从史景迁。现任美国芝加哥大学历史系教授。主要著作有：《腹地的构建——华北 内地的国家、社会和经济（1853—1937）》（荣获1994年费正清奖）、《大分流：欧洲、中国及现代世界经济的发展》（荣获2000年费正清奖、2001年世界历史协会年度图书奖）、《贸易打造的世界——1400年至今的社会、文化与世界经济》（与史蒂文•托皮克合著）等。 [美]史蒂文•托皮克 Steven Topik 美国加州大学尔湾分校历史学系教授，研究方向有：拉美史、世界贸易史、咖啡经济史等。主要著作包括：《巴西的政治经济学：1889—1930》《贸易与炮艇：帝国时代的美国与巴西》《全...(展开全部)

[美] 彭慕兰 Kenneth Pomeranz 著名历史学家，曾任美国历史学会会长（2013—2014），“加州学派”代表人物。1980年于康奈尔大学获学士学位，1988年于耶鲁大学获博士学位，师从史景迁。现任美国芝加哥大学历史系教授。主要著作有：《腹地的构建——华北 内地的国家、社会和经济（1853—1937）》（荣获1994年费正清奖）、《大分流：欧洲、中国及现代世界经济的发展》（荣获2000年费正清奖、2001年世界历史协会年度图书奖）、《贸易打造的世界——1400年至今的社会、文化与世界经济》（与史蒂文•托皮克合著）等。 [美]史蒂文•托皮克 Steven Topik 美国加州大学尔湾分校历史学系教授，研究方向有：拉美史、世界贸易史、咖啡经济史等。主要著作包括：《巴西的政治经济学：1889—1930》《贸易与炮艇：帝国时代的美国与巴西》《全...(展开全部)

The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communi...(展开全部)

The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communi...(展开全部)

People often associate postwar Germany with technology and with its products of mass consumption, such as luxury cars. Even pop music, most notably Kraftwerk (literally 'power station') with songs such as Autobahn, Radioactivity or We are the Robots, disseminates the stereotype of a close link between German culture and technology. Technology in Modern German History explores v...(展开全部)

Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography o...(展开全部)