伊波利特•泰纳，19 世纪法国著名的历史学家。主要作品有《英国文学史》 《现代法国的起源》等。在历史学领域，泰纳倡导历史学的科学化，是法国实证主义史学的重要代表；其代表作《现代法国的起源》以鲜明的政治立场和绚丽的修辞技艺著称，对后世历史学和法国政治思想史有重大影响。

Why should we fetch Taine's work up from its dusty box in the basement of the national library? First of all because his realistic views of our human nature, of our civilization and of socialism as well as his dark premonitions of the 20th century were proven correct. Secondly because we may today with more accuracy call his work: "The Origins of Popular Democracy and of Commun...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 理查德·派普斯（Richard Pipes），著名俄国史学者。曾在美国哈佛大学任教，担任哈佛大学俄罗斯研究中心主任，斯坦福研究所高级顾问。他因突出的研究成果获得诸多奖项和荣誉，包括古根海姆研究员、美国艺术与科学学院院士、美国历史协会乔治路易斯比尔奖等。

Russia under the Bolshevik Regime is the sequel to Richard Pipes's classic The Russian Revolution, and covers the time from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to the death of Lenin in 1924, when all the institutions and nearly all the practices of future Stalinism were in place. In the first history of the period to make use of the recently opened Russian archives, the autho...(展开全部)

This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a span of some 2,500 years from the origins of complex society within Mesoamerica to the end of the Pre-Columbian world with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. The sixth edition presents new archaeological evidence and historical studies and offers the most extensive revisions of this clas...(展开全部)

Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. Here are the ambitious writers who crowded into Paris seeking fame and fortune within the Republic of Letters, but who instead sank into the miserable world of Grub St...(展开全部)

罗伯特·达恩顿（Robert Darnton），著名的欧洲文化史学者。1939年生于纽约。1960年毕业于哈佛大学。1964年获牛津大学博士学位。1964—1965年担任《纽约时报》记者。1968年进入普林斯顿大学，担任Shelby Cullom Davis欧洲史教授。1999年任美国历史学会主席。2007年从普林斯顿大学荣休，担任哈佛大学Carl H. Pforzheimer教授和哈佛大学图书馆馆长。本人及其著作曾获多项奖励：1995年，《法国革命前的畅销禁书》一书获美国国家图书评论奖；1999年，获法国政府荣誉骑士勋章提名；2004年，获国际符腾堡学会颁发的符腾堡奖；2005年，获美国印刷史学会杰出贡献奖。

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) is familiar to readers as the author of Democracy in America, the most-quoted book written about the United States. The Old Regime and the Revolution is Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulatin...(展开全部)

Urban history starts in ancient Mesopotamia. In this volume Marc Van de Mieroop examines the evolution of the very earliest cities which, for millennia, inspired the rest of the ancient world. The author argues that the city determined every aspect of Mesopotamian civilization, and the political and social structure, economy, literature, and arts of Mesopotamian culture cannot ...(展开全部)

Urban history starts in Mesopotamia: the earliest known cities developed there as a result of long indigenous processes and, for millennia, the city determined every aspect of Mesopotamian civilization. Marc Van De Mieroop examines urban life in the historical period, investigating urban topography, the role of cities as centres of culture, their political and social structures...(展开全部)