How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did women in their circles challenge those perceptions, if only by revaluing the kinds of intelligence attributed to them? What was thought to distinguish the "manly mind" from the feminine mind? How did awareness of these questions infor...(展开全部)

Women in the Sky examines Korean women factory workers' century-long activism, from the 1920s to the present, with a focus on gender politics both in the labor movement and in the larger society. It highlights several key moments in colonial and postcolonial Korean history when factory women commanded the attention of the wider public, including the early-1930s rubber shoe work...(展开全部)

罗伯特·达恩顿(Robert Darnton），普林斯顿大学教授，哈佛大学图书馆馆长，图书史专家，欧洲文化史专家。曾任牛津大学出版社北美分部理事，发起、参与大量的图书史研究，电子书启蒙运动项目，在图书领域具有丰富的商业、学术背景，他和他的著作曾获多项学术奖和图书奖。在中国，因经典著作《屠猫记》、《启蒙运动的生意》、《拉莫莱特之吻：有关文化史的思考》为读者熟知。

罗伯特·达恩顿(Robert Darnton），普林斯顿大学教授，哈佛大学图书馆馆长，图书史专家，欧洲文化史专家。曾任牛津大学出版社北美分部理事，发起、参与大量的图书史研究，电子书启蒙运动项目，在图书领域具有丰富的商业、学术背景，他和他的著作曾获多项学术奖和图书奖。在中国，因经典著作《屠猫记》、《启蒙运动的生意》、《拉莫莱特之吻：有关文化史的思考》为读者熟知。

Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contributi...(展开全部)

Offers an analysis of the dynamics of Taiwan's export-oriented industrialization, particularly its impact on women and other workers.

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among soc...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1893 and never out of print, Emile Durkheim's groundbreaking work remains one of the cornerstone texts of the sociological canon--now updated and re-translated in this new edition. As the Industrial Revolution was changing the landscape of society, Durkheim presented a new vision of the social structures at the root of capitalism, and the issues he grapp...(展开全部)

"Defacement" asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth ...(展开全部)

The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe in the late Ice Age provokes awe and wonder in equal measure. What do these animals and symbols, depicted on the walls of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the ancestral mind? How did these images spring, sophisticated and fully formed, seemingly from nowhere ...(展开全部)