While the monarchy established by Caesar Augustus has attracted much scholarly attention, far less has been said about the reemergence of the old nobility at that time after years of civil war. One clear reason for this has been the lack of reliable evidence from the period. This book goes backward to the early years of the first century B.C. and forward to the reign of Nero in...(展开全部)

While previous studies have concentrated largely upon political concerns, The Augustan Art of Poetry is an exploration of the influence of the Roman Augustan aesthetic on English neo-classical poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At the conclusion of his translation of Virgil, Dryden claims implicitly to have given English poetry the kind of refinement in language...(展开全部)

While previous studies have concentrated largely upon political concerns, The Augustan Art of Poetry is an exploration of the influence of the Roman Augustan aesthetic on English neo-classical poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At the conclusion of his translation of Virgil, Dryden claims implicitly to have given English poetry the kind of refinement in language...(展开全部)

美国哥伦比亚大学历史学博士，先后在田纳西大学、斯坦福大学和加州大学伯克利分校任教。研究兴趣为中国9-11世纪的精英社会、晚唐都城，11世纪宋辽边界，死亡与丧葬礼俗等。代表作有：《长城与北宋时期的边界概念》(The Great Wall and Conceptualizations of the Border under the Northern Song)，《大家族、官僚和地方实力派：晚唐中国精英的结构与流动》（Great Clansmen, Bureaucrats, and Local Magnates: The Structure and Circulation of the Elite in Late-Tang China），《宋辽边界的文化扩散与融合》（Cultural Diffusion and Hybridization along th...(展开全部)

The complete disappearance by the tenth century of the medieval Chinese aristocracy, the "great clans" that had dominated China for centuries, has long perplexed historians. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance by using new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources. He systematically exploits the thousands of funerary biog...(展开全部)

美国哥伦比亚大学历史学博士，先后在田纳西大学、斯坦福大学和加州大学伯克利分校任教。研究兴趣为中国9-11世纪的精英社会、晚唐都城，11世纪宋辽边界，死亡与丧葬礼俗等。代表作有：《长城与北宋时期的边界概念》(The Great Wall and Conceptualizations of the Border under the Northern Song)，《大家族、官僚和地方实力派：晚唐中国精英的结构与流动》（Great Clansmen, Bureaucrats, and Local Magnates: The Structure and Circulation of the Elite in Late-Tang China），《宋辽边界的文化扩散与融合》（Cultural Diffusion and Hybridization along th...(展开全部)

The complete disappearance by the tenth century of the medieval Chinese aristocracy, the "great clans" that had dominated China for centuries, has long perplexed historians. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance by using new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources. He systematically exploits the thousands of funerary biog...(展开全部)

A brilliant, multifaceted chronicle of economic and social change. -- The New York Times "No praise can be too high." -- The New York Review of Books At the outset of the 1870s, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's share of land, wealth, and power in the world's greatest empire. By the end of the ...(展开全部)

Based on private papers of aristocratic families, this book presents a new interpretation of the long-term social changes leading up to the English Revolution.

劳伦斯•斯通（Lawrence Stone，1919-1999年），以研究近代早期英国历史而声誉卓著的学者。长期任教于牛津大学（1947-1962年），后一直担任普林斯顿大学历史学教授（1963-1990年），主要著作有：《贵族的危机：1558-1641年》、《英国革命的原因：1529—1642年》、《英国16至18世纪的家庭、性与婚姻》等。