西蒙•沙玛（Simon Schama），英国著名历史学家，美国哥伦比亚大学历史学和艺术史的大学教授（University Professor），专长于艺术史、荷兰史、犹太人史和法国史。同时，他还是英国广播公司的纪录片撰稿人和解说。毕业于英国剑桥大学基督学院，曾在剑桥大学、牛津大学和巴黎社会科学高等研究院任教，1995年被遴选为剑桥大学基督学院的荣誉成员，2015年成为英国学术院通信会员，2017年成为英国皇家文学协会会员，2018年被英国女王册封为爵士。代表作有《爱国者和解放者》《富庶的窘境》《公民们：法国大革命编年史》《风景与记忆》《英国史》《艺术的力量》《犹太人的历史》等。

This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. In this brilliant work that moves far beyond the conventions of social or cultural history, Simon Schama investigates the astonishing case of a people's self-invention. He shows how, ...(展开全部)

Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings ...(展开全部)

Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings ...(展开全部)

Why are some nations more technically creative than others and why do some highly innovative societies eventually stagnate? In this provocative study of the value and meaning of technological advance, Joel Mokyr considers how past physical and social conditions have influenced the development and reception of new ideas, and shows how these trends can guide future industrial str...(展开全部)

In this acclaimed book, Professor Ricks argues for the importance of embarrassment in human life and for the value works of art which help us deal with embarrassment by recognizing and refining it. As a poet and a man, Keats was especially sensitive to, and morally intelligent about, embarrassment. This study demonstrates the particular direction of his insight and moral concer...(展开全部)

Why isn't the whole world as rich as the United States? Conventional views holds that differences in the share of output invested by countries account for this disparity. Not so, say Stephen Parente and Edward Prescott. In Barriers to Riches, Parente and Prescott argue that differences in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) explain this phenomenon. These differences exist because s...(展开全部)

Why isn't the whole world as rich as the United States? Conventional views holds that differences in the share of output invested by countries account for this disparity. Not so, say Stephen Parente and Edward Prescott. In Barriers to Riches , Parente and Prescott argue that differences in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) explain this phenomenon. These differences exist because...(展开全部)

【美】斯图亚特•戈登(Stewart Gordon) 密西根大学南亚研究中心研究员。 · 斯图亚特•戈登并非一本正经的学者，他老是搭着巴士在土耳其、伊朗、阿富汗、巴基斯坦与印度闲晃，爬上秘鲁印加古道，或是乘船沿湄公河或密西西比河逆流而上。 · 戈登曾拍摄柬埔寨的古物与印度的旧石器时代岩窟壁画。他也是历史频道、探索频道、迪斯尼公司与美洲女王汽船公司的顾问。戈登亦曾荣获伍德罗•威尔逊奖学金、傅尔布莱特奖学金以及埃尔哈特基金会写作补助等多个奖项。戈登目前住在美国安娜堡，你可以在stewartgordonhistorian.com追踪其学术动态及其游历世界各地的照片。

While European civilization stagnated in the Dark Ages,” Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the distant regions of Asia’s vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with trade, international diplomacy, and the exchange of ideas. Stewart Gordon has fashioned...(展开全部)