The French political philosopher and historian Francois Guizot (1787-1874) was one of the French Doctrinaires, thinkers who sought to avoid the interpretations of the Revolution advanced by either extreme of Left or Right. He argued that in order to understand the nature of political institutions it is necessary to study first the society, its composition, and the relation betw...(展开全部)

The French political philosopher and historian Francois Guizot (1787-1874) was one of the French Doctrinaires, thinkers who sought to avoid the interpretations of the Revolution advanced by either extreme of Left or Right. He argued that in order to understand the nature of political institutions it is necessary to study first the society, its composition, and the relation betw...(展开全部)

伯纳德‧曼宁：法国高等社科院社会科学博士生导师，纽约大学政治学教授，他以自由主义、政治协商和代议制民主的相关著述而闻名。

The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements. Professor Manin challenges the conventional view that representative democracy is no more than an indirect form of government by the people, in which citizens elect representatives only because they canno...(展开全部)

朱泽佩·科基雅拉（1904-1965） 意大利著名人类学家和民族学家。著有《欧洲民俗学史》《民间诗歌诸问题》《传说的起源》等。《欧洲民俗学史》是他一部集大成的著作，填补了世界民俗学领域一个很大的空白。 译者 魏庆征 曾就职于原中国民间文艺研究会研究部（今中国民间文艺家协会），不仅在外国神话学研究领域涉猎甚广，而且长期从事西方神话学、宗教学著作的翻译工作。编著《世界宗教艺术图典》《古代印度神话》《古代伊朗神话》《外国神话传说大词典》等，翻译《世界各民族神话大观》《宗教哲学》《无神论辞典》《神话的诗学》等。

朱泽佩·科基雅拉（1904-1965） 意大利著名人类学家和民族学家。著有《欧洲民俗学史》《民间诗歌诸问题》《传说的起源》等。《欧洲民俗学史》是他一部集大成的著作，填补了世界民俗学领域一个很大的空白。 译者 魏庆征 曾就职于原中国民间文艺研究会研究部（今中国民间文艺家协会），不仅在外国神话学研究领域涉猎甚广，而且长期从事西方神话学、宗教学著作的翻译工作。编著《世界宗教艺术图典》《古代印度神话》《古代伊朗神话》《外国神话传说大词典》等，翻译《世界各民族神话大观》《宗教哲学》《无神论辞典》《神话的诗学》等。

In this famous book Philip Bell examines the European origins of the Second World War from three different angles: first, he sets out the various explanations which have been offered for the war, and discusses the historiographical debates to which they have given rise; he then analyses the major underlying forces - ideological, economic and strategic - that were at work in Eur...(展开全部)

P.M.H.贝尔（P.M.H.Bell），英国欧洲近现代史专家，利物浦大学荣誉高级教席享有者，长于欧洲国际关系史研究。著有《法国与英国（1900—1940）：协约与疏离》、《法国与英国（1940—1994）：长分裂》以及《第二次世界大战的起源：欧洲战场》。其中《第二次世界大战的起源》自1986年首版后多次再版，是其重要代表作。 杨光海，解放军国际关系学院国际战略系教授，国家安全战略研究中心主任。著有《国际安全制度及其在东亚的实践》，参与翻译《二十世纪世界史》。 丁山，解放军国际关系学院副教授。

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)