This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while giving weight to the characteristics of each country. This narrative history employs the methods of "history from beneath" to connect leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is a tapestry from which...(展开全部)

No one has hitherto had the breadth of imagination and intellectual boldness to describe and analyse government throughout recorded history and throughout the world. This unique study of government is the culmination of the work of the late S. E. Finer, one of the leading political scientists of the twentieth century. Ranging over 5,000 years, from the Sumerian city state to th...(展开全部)

For centuries humanity has engaged in a virtual exploration of space through astronomical observation, aided by astounding scientific and technological advances. In more than sixty years since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, more than 6,000 functioning satellites have been launched into Earth's orbit and beyond - some to the farthest reaches of the Solar System - and more than...(展开全部)

Humanity has been flying into orbit for almost 50 years, beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957. In the centuries before, people all over the world had engaged in a virtual exploration of space through astronomical observation aided by astounding scientific and technological advances. In the period since, more than 6,000 satellites have been launched into Eart...(展开全部)

Né en 1968 à Paris, Jérôme Ferrari est professeur de philosophie et conseiller pédagogique au Lycée français d’Abou Dhabi depuis la rentrée, après avoir enseigné au lycée international d’Alger puis au lycée Fesch d’Ajaccio. Ce quadragénaire à la silhouette juvénile et au regard intense, qui refuse de se dire philosophe, a bâti en six romans une oeuvre d’une grande puissance poé...(展开全部)

This sweeping generational novel, which spans the 20th century, begins with an old man considering a photograph of his long-dead siblings and mother. His bitterness about his family, with its absent father and far older brothers and sisters, is painful to him still. Yet this familial bitterness pales when compared with his profound irritation at the recent disappearance of the ...(展开全部)

From Ancient Greece to the dawn of the 21st century, this text unravels all of the tightly woven social, cultural, economic and political strands of European history. It looks at the creation of huge empires - including the Roman, Spanish and Soviet - and at the once unimaginable prospect of a united federal Europe. The lives and achievements of figures from all aspects of Euro...(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)