Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe explains how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes. The book shows how a sequence of casual forces - social norms, focal points, rational calculation - operate to drive individuals into roles of passive resistance and, at a second stage, into participation in community-based reb...(展开全部)

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Twenty-three political essays that focus on the victims of history, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War. In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." Resistance,...(展开全部)

In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast and disparate possessions, but his action had the opposite effect, catalyzing the emergence of competing nationalisms among his Hungarian, Czech, and other subjects, who feared that their languages and cultures ...(展开全部)

This welcome second edition of A History of Eastern Europe provides a thematic historical survey of the formative processes of political, social and economic change which have played paramount roles in shaping the evolution and development of the region. Subjects covered include: Eastern Europe in ancient, medieval and early modern times the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman E...(展开全部)

亚当·普沃斯基教授，当代美国著名政治学家。1966年在美国西北大学获政治学博士学位，先后任教于华盛顿大学、芝加哥大学与纽约大学，到瑞士、德国、法国、智利、印度、波兰等多个国家做过访问学者。学术研究成果斐然。除了大量的学术论文外，普沃斯基教授还独著、合著或编辑出版了一系列在国际上有重大影响力的学术著作。如《民主、责任与代表》、《可持续性民主》、《资本主义下的国家与经济》等，许多著作一版再版，并被翻译成葡萄牙语、西班牙语、日语、韩语、汉语、土耳其语等多国文字。本书是他的代表作之一。

亚当·普沃斯基教授，当代美国著名政治学家。1966年在美国西北大学获政治学博士学位，先后任教于华盛顿大学、芝加哥大学与纽约大学，到瑞士、德国、法国、智利、印度、波兰等多个国家做过访问学者。学术研究成果斐然。除了大量的学术论文外，普沃斯基教授还独著、合著或编辑出版了一系列在国际上有重大影响力的学术著作。如《民主、责任与代表》、《可持续性民主》、《资本主义下的国家与经济》等，许多著作一版再版，并被翻译成葡萄牙语、西班牙语、日语、韩语、汉语、土耳其语等多国文字。本书是他的代表作之一。

The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a dramatic, worldwide reform of political and economic systems. Never have so many people enjoyed, or at least experimented with democratic institutions. However, many strategies for economic development in Eastern Europe and Latin America have failed with the result that entire economic systems on b...(展开全部)

The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a dramatic, worldwide reform of political and economic systems. Never have so many people enjoyed, or at least experimented with democratic institutions. However, many strategies for economic development in Eastern Europe and Latin America have failed with the result that entire economic systems on b...(展开全部)

亚当·普沃斯基教授，当代美国著名政治学家。1966年在美国西北大学获政治学博士学位，先后任教于华盛顿大学、芝加哥大学与纽约大学，到瑞士、德国、法国、智利、印度、波兰等多个国家做过访问学者。学术研究成果斐然。除了大量的学术论文外，普沃斯基教授还独著、合著或编辑出版了一系列在国际上有重大影响力的学术著作。如《民主、责任与代表》、《可持续性民主》、《资本主义下的国家与经济》等，许多著作一版再版，并被翻译成葡萄牙语、西班牙语、日语、韩语、汉语、土耳其语等多国文字。本书是他的代表作之一。

亚当·普沃斯基教授，当代美国著名政治学家。1966年在美国西北大学获政治学博士学位，先后任教于华盛顿大学、芝加哥大学与纽约大学，到瑞士、德国、法国、智利、印度、波兰等多个国家做过访问学者。学术研究成果斐然。除了大量的学术论文外，普沃斯基教授还独著、合著或编辑出版了一系列在国际上有重大影响力的学术著作。如《民主、责任与代表》、《可持续性民主》、《资本主义下的国家与经济》等，许多著作一版再版，并被翻译成葡萄牙语、西班牙语、日语、韩语、汉语、土耳其语等多国文字。本书是他的代表作之一。