沃尔特·沙伊德尔(Walter Scheidel)，美国斯坦福大学人文学科迪卡森讲席教授、古典学和历史学教授，人类生物学系的肯尼迪-格罗斯曼研究员，是当前国际古希腊、古罗马史研究领域最重要、最活跃的学者之一。 沙伊德尔已经出版了十几部著作，包括《罗马与中国》《剑桥希腊罗马经济史》等，并在前现代社会和经济史、人口统计学和比较史学等领域发表了大量文章。

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stabi...(展开全部)

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Periods of increased equality are usually born of carnage and disaster and are generall...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 海伦娜•罗森布拉特（Helena Rosenblatt），纽约城市大学研究生中心历史学教授，是18世纪到19世纪欧洲学术史研究领域的专家，研究兴趣还包括自由主义、共和主义、基督教思想和启蒙运动等。她著有《自由价值观：邦雅曼•贡斯当和宗教政治》（Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion），《与卢梭一起思考：从马基雅维利到施密特》（Thinking with Rousseau: From Machiavelli to Schmitt）等。 【译者简介】 徐曦白，牛津大学政治与国际关系博士候选人，澎湃新闻等媒体欧美政治专栏撰稿人，从事公民社会、国家与社会关系方面的研究。译有《资本主义还有未来吗？》《瓶颈：新的机会平等理论》等。

【作者简介】 海伦娜•罗森布拉特（Helena Rosenblatt），纽约城市大学研究生中心历史学教授，是18世纪到19世纪欧洲学术史研究领域的专家，研究兴趣还包括自由主义、共和主义、基督教思想和启蒙运动等。她著有《自由价值观：邦雅曼•贡斯当和宗教政治》（Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion），《与卢梭一起思考：从马基雅维利到施密特》（Thinking with Rousseau: From Machiavelli to Schmitt）等。 【译者简介】 徐曦白，牛津大学政治与国际关系博士候选人，澎湃新闻等媒体欧美政治专栏撰稿人，从事公民社会、国家与社会关系方面的研究。译有《资本主义还有未来吗？》《瓶颈：新的机会平等理论》等。

The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry—and a term of derision—in today’s increasingly divided public square. Taking readers from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words “liberal” and “liberalism,” revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their m...(展开全部)

The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry—and a term of derision—in today’s increasingly divided public square. Taking readers from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words “liberal” and “liberalism,” revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their m...(展开全部)

The early part of the twenty-first century has witnessed a profound turn in history writing and museum culture towards global and world history. Historians and curators are rapidly changing what they do: no longer satisfied with traditional national histories and area studies, they are pursuing histories of subjects affected by environmental change, migration, slavery, trade an...(展开全部)

This clearly written and engaging book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world. Unlike most studies, which assume that the rise of the West is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship