The 1870s in France - Rimbaud's moment, and the subject of this book - is a decade virtually ignored in most standard histories in France. Yet it was the moment of two significant spatial events: France's expansion on a global scale, and, in the spring of 1871, the brief existence on the Paris Commune - the construction of the revolutionary urban space. Arguing that space, as a...(展开全部)

The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of the grandest political dreams of the nineteenth century—before culminating in horrific violence. Following the disastrous French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, hungry and politically disenchanted Parisians took up arms against their government in the name of a more just soc...(展开全部)

◎著者简介 阿利斯泰尔·霍恩，英国著名法国史专家，曾获得沃尔夫森历史奖、霍桑顿文学奖和法国荣誉军团勋章。主要著作有《巴黎的七个时代》《凡尔登战役：荣耀的代价，1916》等。 ◎译者简介 王宸，北京大学历史学系博士，现任职于博物馆。专业方向为环境史、医疗社会史，热爱各种边缘人边缘事的历史。参与翻译《俄罗斯与拿破仑的决战：鏖战欧罗巴1807—1814》《企鹅欧洲史6：追逐荣耀》《现代医学小史》《致命敌人：为下一次大流行病做准备》等。 田方舟，英国格拉斯哥大学硕士，现任职于教育部中外语言交流合作中心，历史、翻译爱好者。

From Alistair Horne's grand trilogy on French history-two magisterial works now back in print In 1870, Paris was the center of Europe, the font of culture, fashion, and invention. Ten months later Paris had been broken by a long Prussian siege, its starving citizens reduced to eating dogs, cats, and rats, and France had been forced to accept the humiliating surrender terms ...(展开全部)

The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, John Padgett and Walter Powell develop a t...(展开全部)

Lynn Hunt is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author of numerous works, including Inventing Human Rights and Writing History in the Global Era and former president of the American Historical Association, she lives in Los Angeles.

Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united in a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos ever be combined? On this issue, two of the wor...(展开全部)

A brilliantly clear and penetrating exposition of developments in physical science and mathematics brought about by the advent of non-Euclidean geometries, including in-depth coverage of the foundations of geometry, the theory of time, Einstein’s theory of relativity and its consequences, other key topics.