What is the self? The question has preoccupied people in many times and places, but nowhere more than in the modern West, where it has spawned debates that still resound today. Jerrold Seigel here provides an original and penetrating narrative of how major Western European thinkers and writers have confronted the self since the time of Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. From an app...(展开全部)

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip ...(展开全部)

Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outl...(展开全部)

Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outl...(展开全部)

Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mind and the Market is a remarkable history of how the idea of capitalism has developed in Western thought. Ranging across an ideo...(展开全部)

肯尼斯·戴森（Kenneth Dyson）：英国卡迪夫大学政治学与国家关系学系教授，德国政治学研究学会的创始会员，曾因其研究的广泛影响而被授予德国联邦服务十字奖章。于1997年当选不列颠学院会员，同时还是社会科学学会会员和英国皇家历史学会会员。《西欧的国家传统》（The State Tradition in Western Europe）被选入欧洲政治学研究共同体（ECPR）经典系列，其另一部著作《通往马斯特里赫特之路》（The Road to Maastricht）被欧洲议会选入关于欧洲一体化“100本必读著作”。

肯尼斯·戴森（Kenneth Dyson）：英国卡迪夫大学政治学与国家关系学系教授，德国政治学研究学会的创始会员，曾因其研究的广泛影响而被授予德国联邦服务十字奖章。于1997年当选不列颠学院会员，同时还是社会科学学会会员和英国皇家历史学会会员。《西欧的国家传统》（The State Tradition in Western Europe）被选入欧洲政治学研究共同体（ECPR）经典系列，其另一部著作《通往马斯特里赫特之路》（The Road to Maastricht）被欧洲议会选入关于欧洲一体化“100本必读著作”。

For courses in Twentieth Century Europe. Written by a noted intellectual historian, this concise, interpretive history of twentieth-century European society and civilization surveys the full range of social, political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic events - from pre-World War I to the 1990s.

For courses in Twentieth Century Europe. Written by a noted intellectual historian, this concise, interpretive history of twentieth-century European society and civilization surveys the full range of social, political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic events - from pre-World War I to the 1990s.