安东尼·塞尔登(Anthony Seldon)，英国白金汉大学(University of Buckingham)副校长，英国现代史教授，政治人物传记作者，著有撒切尔夫人、约翰·梅杰、托尼·布莱尔、戈登·布朗和大卫·卡梅伦等人的传记。第十三任惠灵顿公学(Wellington College)校长，英国首相官邸荣誉历史顾问，一战百年文化委员会成员。2014年，安东尼·塞尔登因在教育和现代政治史方面的贡献而获封爵士。 乔纳森·麦金(Jonathan Meakin)，在伦敦皇家霍洛威大学(Royal Holloway, University of London)和圣安德鲁斯大学(University of St Andrews)接受教育，对历史有着终生的兴趣，协助安东尼·塞尔登完成多本著作。

Discusses the dichotomy of artistic thought that led to the evolution of modern painting, as perceived by the new art's Salon des Refuses and the Paris art world of 1863

Discusses the dichotomy of artistic thought that led to the evolution of modern painting, as perceived by the new art's Salon des Refuses and the Paris art world of 1863

To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces t...(展开全部)

To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces th...(展开全部)

HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy expanded fivefold, millions of families emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out new lives, technology revolutionised communications, while steamships and railways cut across v...(展开全部)

The Birth of the Modern World is a wonderfully ambitious book that effectively demonstrates the global nature of the modern world and the need to decentre national histories and think big. It is a 'thematic history' demonstrating how 'historical trends and sequences of events, which have been treated separately in regional or national histories, can be brought together' (p. 1)....(展开全部)

The Birth of the Modern World is a wonderfully ambitious book that effectively demonstrates the global nature of the modern world and the need to decentre national histories and think big. It is a 'thematic history' demonstrating how 'historical trends and sequences of events, which have been treated separately in regional or national histories, can be brought together' (p. 1)....(展开全部)

HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy expanded fivefold, millions of families emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out new lives, technology revolutionised communications, while steamships and railways cut across v...(展开全部)

To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces th...(展开全部)