作者简介： 约翰•梅里曼（John Merriman，1946—），密歇根大学历史学博士，耶鲁大学历史学杰出讲席教授，布兰福德学院前院长，美国欧洲史学界权威学者。曾获法国政府颁发的荣誉博士学位、波兰教育部颁发的荣誉勋章、耶鲁大学杰出教学奖。著述甚丰，包括奠定其学术地位并已成为美国高校通行教材的《现代欧洲史》。其主讲的耶鲁大学开放课程“欧洲文明”具有世界性影响 译者简介： 范譞，北京大学社会学系博士，任教于中华女子学院女性学系。研究领域为社会理论、身体社会学与性别研究。

The fascinating story of a long-forgotten "war on terror" that has much in common with our own On a February evening in 1894, a young radical intellectual named mile Henry drank two beers at an upscale Parisian restaurant, then left behind a bomb as a parting gift. This incident, which rocked the French capital, lies at the heart of The Dynamite Club, a mesmerizing account of H...(展开全部)

Distinguished historian John Merriman maintains that the Age of Modern Terror began in Paris on February 12, 1894, when anarchist Emile Henry set off a bomb in the Café Terminus, killing one and wounding twenty French citizens. The true story of the circumstances that led a young radical to commit a cold-blooded act of violence against innocent civilians makes for riveting read...(展开全部)

From the author of Queen of Fashion–a glittering look at fin-de-siècle Paris through the three women who inspired Proust’s supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. The three superstars of turn-of-the-century Parisian high society were Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, Comtesse ...(展开全部)

"This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel."--New Yorker At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be...(展开全部)

作者简介： 约翰•梅里曼（John Merriman，1946—），密歇根大学历史学博士，耶鲁大学历史学杰出讲席教授，布兰福德学院前院长，美国欧洲史学界权威学者。曾获法国政府颁发的荣誉博士学位、波兰教育部颁发的荣誉勋章、耶鲁大学杰出教学奖。著述甚丰，包括奠定其学术地位并已成为美国高校通行教材的《现代欧洲史》。其主讲的耶鲁大学开放课程“欧洲文明”具有世界性影响 译者简介： 范譞，北京大学社会学系博士，任教于中华女子学院女性学系。研究领域为社会理论、身体社会学与性别研究。

In four closely interwoven studies, Jeffrey Alexander identifies the central dilemma that provokes contemporary social theory and proposes a new way to resolve it. The dream of reason that marked the previous fin de siecle foundered in the face of the cataclysms of the twentieth century, when war, revolution, and totalitarianism came to be seen as themselves products of reason....(展开全部)

Description Today busyness has become a badge of honour. We want to say we're busy, yet at the same time we feel exhausted. Instead, we should start taking rest seriously as a method of self-care and this book can help us to work out how. The Art of Rest draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond collaborated on―‘The Rest Test’: the largest global survey into rest ever u...(展开全部)

In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an inter...(展开全部)

In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an inter...(展开全部)