We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Chinese porcelains. Many of these were made in the kilns in and surrounding Jingdezhen. Found in almost every part of the world, Jingdezhen's porcelains had a far-reaching impact on g...(展开全部)

威廉·L.西尔伯(WilliamL.Silber)，纽约大学斯特恩商学院金融学和经济学教授，证券市场格拉斯克曼研究所主任、教授。过去曾担任总统经济顾问委员会高级经济学家，还曾担任纽约联邦储备银行的经济顾问团成员，一直担任联邦储备委员会、美国参议院预算部、银行和金融服务房屋委员会、金融结构和监管协会等部门的顾问。在专业期刊上公开发表学术论文50多篇，担任《金融研究》《经济和统计评论》等杂志的副主编。出版图书和专著共9部。

威廉·L.西尔伯(WilliamL.Silber)，纽约大学斯特恩商学院金融学和经济学教授，证券市场格拉斯克曼研究所主任、教授。过去曾担任总统经济顾问委员会高级经济学家，还曾担任纽约联邦储备银行的经济顾问团成员，一直担任联邦储备委员会、美国参议院预算部、银行和金融服务房屋委员会、金融结构和监管协会等部门的顾问。在专业期刊上公开发表学术论文50多篇，担任《金融研究》《经济和统计评论》等杂志的副主编。出版图书和专著共9部。

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by the cumulative pressure of population growth on limited available resourc...(展开全部)

杰克·A.戈德斯通，乔治·梅森大学公共政策学院VirginiaE.andJohnT.HazelJr.讲座教授，曾因其学术名著《早期现代世界的革命与反抗》（加利福尼亚大学出版社1991年版）一书而获得美国社会学协会奖。

杰克·A.戈德斯通，乔治·梅森大学公共政策学院VirginiaE.andJohnT.HazelJr.讲座教授，曾因其学术名著《早期现代世界的革命与反抗》（加利福尼亚大学出版社1991年版）一书而获得美国社会学协会奖。

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by the cumulative pressure of population growth on limited available resourc...(展开全部)

http://www.cambridge.org/cn/academic/subjects/archaeology/archaeology-asia-sub-saharan-africa-and-pacific/violence-kinship-and-early-chinese-state-shang-and-their-world?format=HB#d2yFGCHpzWjAp6sh.97 Situated between myth and history, the Shang has been hailed both as China's first historical dynasty and as one of the world's primary civilizations. This book is an up-to-date syn...(展开全部)

This book follows Chinese porcelain through the commodity chain, from its production in China to trade with Spanish Merchants in Manila, and to its eventual adoption by colonial society in Mexico. As trade connections increased in the early modern period, porcelain became an immensely popular and global product. This study focuses on one of the most exported objects, the guan. ...(展开全部)

Epidemics and the Modern World explores the relationships between epidemics and key themes in modern history. Our institutions, colonial structures, relationships to animals, and perceptions of suffering, sexuality, race, and disability have all shaped – and been shaped by – these significant medical events. This book uses "biographies" of epidemics such as plague, tuberculosis...(展开全部)