维姆·克罗斯特（Wim Klooster），生于荷兰的格罗宁根，美国克拉克大学历史与国际关系系主任，自2003年以来一直在该校任教。他的研究视角具有比较性，专注于研究15世纪至19世纪大西洋世界的历史、18世纪至19世纪大西洋革命时代的历史，以及荷兰建立海上贸易帝国的历史。著有《大西洋世界的革命》（Revolutions in the Atlantic World）一书。

维姆·克罗斯特（Wim Klooster），生于荷兰的格罗宁根，美国克拉克大学历史与国际关系系主任，自2003年以来一直在该校任教。他的研究视角具有比较性，专注于研究15世纪至19世纪大西洋世界的历史、18世纪至19世纪大西洋革命时代的历史，以及荷兰建立海上贸易帝国的历史。著有《大西洋世界的革命》（Revolutions in the Atlantic World）一书。

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip ...(展开全部)

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip ...(展开全部)

"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of ar...(展开全部)

"Science and Empire in the Atlantic World" is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, a...(展开全部)

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. The distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-...(展开全部)

International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Power and Plenty fills this gap, providing the first full account of world trade and development over the course of the last millennium. Rona...(展开全部)

International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. "Power and Plenty" fills this gap, providing the first full account of world trade and development over the course of the last millennium. Ro...(展开全部)