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)

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。

During the Manchu conquest of China (1640s–1680s), the Qing government mandated that male subjects shave their hair following the Manchu style. It was a directive that brought the physical body front and center as the locus of authority and control. Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China highlights the central role played by the body in writers’ memories of lived experie...(展开全部)

During the Manchu conquest of China (1640s–1680s), the Qing government mandated that male subjects shave their hair following the Manchu style. It was a directive that brought the physical body front and center as the locus of authority and control. Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China highlights the central role played by the body in writers’ memories of lived experie...(展开全部)