Written with a vigor and passion rarely found in a scholarly text, this broad history of the western European legal tradition is now available in an elegant and lucid translation from the original Italian. Here Manlio Bellomo looks back to a time when Europe had a common law that transcended national and legal boundaries. This common law, which the author calls the ius commune,...(展开全部)

曼利奥·贝洛莫（Manlio Bellomo），意大利法律史学者，意大利卡塔尼亚大学法律史教授。曾在罗马大学跟随弗朗切斯科·卡拉索（Francesco Calasso）学习，在欧洲法律史领域，他撰写了大量的著作和论文。1987年，贝洛莫和斯蒂芬·库特纳（Stephan Kuttner）共同成立了共同法国际学院，并担任该学院的联合院长。 高仰光，中国人民大学法学院法律史教研室副教授，瑞士苏黎世大学法学院访问学者，长期从事欧洲法律史的研究，具体包括古希腊法、罗马法、西欧中世纪城市法与封建法、近代德国法等领域。

In the second millennium CE, long before English became the language of science in the twentieth century, the act of translation was crucial for understanding and disseminating knowledge and information across linguistic and geographic boundaries. This volume considers the complexities of knowledge exchange through the practice of translation over the course of a millennium, ac...(展开全部)

By tracing the large-scale processes of social, economic and political change within cities, as well as the evolving relationships between town and country and between city and city, the authors present an original synthesis of European urbanization within a global context. The authors bring this edition up to date with a new chapter entitled "Europe's Cities in the 20th Centur...(展开全部)

范赞登，荷兰乌特列支大学经济史教授，国际社会史研究所高级研究员，并担任世界经济史协会的主席。他有大量的作品出版，包括荷兰、欧洲和印尼的经济史。

Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Western Europe? Was it a sudden acceleration of the European economy, or should we look at specific institutions arising in Western Europe since the Middle Ages? This book puts these big questions of European economic history in a global perspective, deals with the institutions that developed in Europe, and measures their relative eff...(展开全部)

Labyrinth of the Past is a collection of short stories that explore the lives of young women raised by single mothers in China, a country that is unforgiving to unmarried women and their children. A dark, yet engrossing look at the lives of these girls, each story examines their personal struggles with family and the greater world around them. Coping with the stigma of being th...(展开全部)

扎卡里·赛尔·席夫曼（Zachary Sayre Schiffman），美国当代著名历史学家，1980年毕业于芝加哥大学历史系，获博士学位。1987年至今一直任教于美国东北伊利诺伊大学历史系，现担任该系伯纳德J.布勒梅尔杰出研究教授。研究重点：文艺复兴和近代早期欧洲历史，在法国启蒙运动史方面着力尤多。先后出版四部著作，其中影响大的就是《过去的诞生》，该书奠定了其在美国史学界的重要地位。 梅义征，安徽省太湖县人，历史学博士，现居上海市。历年在期刊、报纸发表各类论文近30篇，出版专著2本，译著2本，主编著作1本，参与编写著作1本。

Editorial Reviews Review Combining erudition with theoretical intelligence, Zachary Schiffman distills a theme, the discovery of 'the past,' that sheds new light on the history of western historical thinking from Herodotus to the eighteenth century. Some readers will disagree with some of Schiffman’s interpretations. All, however, will be stimulated and enlightened. (Allan Megi...(展开全部)

保罗·M. 霍恩伯格（Paul M. Hohenberg） 美国伦斯勒理工学院经济学教授。 林恩·霍伦·利斯（Lynn Hollen Lees） 哈佛大学历史学博士，曾任宾夕法尼亚大学历史学教授，2013年退休。研究方向为城市史、欧洲社会史、英国殖民统治史。 阮岳湘（译者） 副教授，硕士生导师。2005年博士毕业于南京大学。研究方向为翻译、世界史。近年在国内外重要学术期刊上发表论文数篇，出版专著、译著七部，主持教育部人文社科项目一项。曾获得“第六届中华优秀出版物图书奖”。 ◆ 名人推荐： 一本介绍欧洲城市化历程且兼具可读性的野心之作。 ——《经济史杂志》 本书完成了一项艰巨的挑战，即精彩而简明地描述了城市发展的千年历史。既向初学者恰当地介绍了城市研究这门学科，又能激发专业研究者深入探讨。 ——《城市研究》 这是一部讲述欧洲变革的开拓性历史著作。 ——...(展开全部)