Review "The scope of Smith's work is breathtaking ... Part I is in some respects the most original part of the book; to my knowledge there is no comparable survey." Journal of American Ethnic History "Unquestionably an important contribution to the literature on nationalism ... this is a thoughtful, insightful investigation into the roots and strengths of ethnonational identity...(展开全部)

Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs—or some combination of the various peoples who inhabited, traversed, or pillaged their continent more than a thousand years ago. According to Patrick Geary, this is historical nonsense. The idea that national character is fixed for all time in a s...(展开全部)

Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs—or some combination of the various peoples who inhabited, traversed, or pillaged their continent more than a thousand years ago. According to Patrick Geary, this is historical nonsense. The idea that national character is fixed for all time in a s...(展开全部)

作者 [美]帕特里克·格里（Patrick J. Geary），中世纪史学家，普林斯顿高等研究院西方中世纪史学教授。曾先后任教于普林斯顿大学、佛罗里达大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校。著有《在法兰西与德意志之前》《与死者共生的中古时代》《回忆的幽灵》等。 译者 吕昭，法国社会科学高等研究院历史学博士，清华大学历史系助理教授。研究方向为西欧中世纪史、中世纪法国城市史。 杨光，法国社会科学高等研究院历史学博士，中国社会科学院世界历史研究所助理研究员。研究方向为西欧近代史、近现代法国政治史和当代法国政治。

作者 [美]帕特里克·格里（Patrick J. Geary），中世纪史学家，普林斯顿高等研究院西方中世纪史学教授。曾先后任教于普林斯顿大学、佛罗里达大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校。著有《在法兰西与德意志之前》《与死者共生的中古时代》《回忆的幽灵》等。 译者 吕昭，法国社会科学高等研究院历史学博士，清华大学历史系助理教授。研究方向为西欧中世纪史、中世纪法国城市史。 杨光，法国社会科学高等研究院历史学博士，中国社会科学院世界历史研究所助理研究员。研究方向为西欧近代史、近现代法国政治史和当代法国政治。

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or desti...(展开全部)

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or desti...(展开全部)

Aprovocative new theory of political economy explaining why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity Why are some nations more prosperous than others?Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing o...(展开全部)

Despite implicating ethnicity in everything from civil war to economic failure, researchers seldom consult psychological research when addressing the most basic question: What is ethnicity? The result is a radical scholarly divide generating contradictory recommendations for solving ethnic conflict. Research into how the human brain actually works demands a revision of existing...(展开全部)

The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the size of a country as "exogenous," or no more subject to explanation than the location of a mountain ...(展开全部)