1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman’s cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941. Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers’ retreat, a refuge from war, and a means of becoming ‘a wr...(展开全部)

1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman’s cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941. Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers’ retreat, a refuge from war, and a means of becoming ‘a wr...(展开全部)

Alun Howkins' panoramic survey is a social history of rural England and Wales in the twentieth century. He examines the impact of the First World War, the role of agriculture throughout the century, and the expectations of the countryside that modern urban people harbour. Howkins analyzes the role of rural England as a place for work as well as leisure, and the problems caused ...(展开全部)

伊万·撒列尼，美籍匈牙利裔人，转型社会研究的代表人物之一。耶鲁大学威廉·格雷厄姆·萨勒姆社会学教授和政治学教授，美国艺术和科学院院士，匈牙利科学院院士。长期以来，他和其团队不断探索社会主义不同时期对不同群体、阶层的不同影响，在制度路径上试图寻找不同于社会主义和资本主义的“第三条道路”。本书为其“三部曲”，包括《通往阶级权力之路的知识分子》（1979）、《社会主义企业家》（1988）和《无须资本家打造资本主义》（1998）中的一部。

Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their person...(展开全部)

• Provides the reader a nuanced understanding of rural France that goes beyond the static, picture postcard vision of the French countryside. • Brings together memoirs, television, magazines, film, and photographic sources. • Features insert of color photography of the French countryside. At the close of the twentieth century, even as globalization spurred the growth of megacit...(展开全部)

Reprint of three articles from JAS.

施坚雅（G.WilliamSkinner，1925-2008） 1925年2月14日出生于美国加州奥克兰，1954年于美国康奈尔大学获人类学博士学位，先后任哥伦比亚大学社会学助教、康奈尔大学人类学副教授、教授，1965年起任斯坦福大学人类学教授，1990年起任加州大学戴维斯分校人类学教授。1950年至1951年到中国四川考察，1977年考察中国城市市场。1980年当选为美国科学院院士，1983年至1984年任美国亚洲学会会长，1987年至1989年任斯坦福大学巴巴拉·布朗宁人文科学教授。作品中译本有《中国农村的市场和社会结构》（中国社会科学出版社1998年版）、《中华帝国晚期的城市》（中华书局2000年版），并发表大量研究中国社会、经济结构、社会科学研究、农村和农民、人口、民族、海外华人的论文。

Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their person...(展开全部)