范赞登，荷兰乌特列支大学经济史教授，国际社会史研究所高级研究员，并担任世界经济史协会的主席。他有大量的作品出版，包括荷兰、欧洲和印尼的经济史。

Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Western Europe? Was it a sudden acceleration of the European economy, or should we look at specific institutions arising in Western Europe since the Middle Ages? This book puts these big questions of European economic history in a global perspective, deals with the institutions that developed in Europe, and measures their relative eff...(展开全部)

范赞登，荷兰乌特列支大学经济史教授，国际社会史研究所高级研究员，并担任世界经济史协会的主席。他有大量的作品出版，包括荷兰、欧洲和印尼的经济史。

Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Western Europe? Was it a sudden acceleration of the European economy, or should we look at specific institutions arising in Western Europe since the Middle Ages? This book puts these big questions of European economic history in a global perspective, deals with the institutions that developed in Europe, and measures their relative eff...(展开全部)

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison t...(展开全部)

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison t...(展开全部)

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison t...(展开全部)

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison t...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 卡洛•M.奇波拉（Carlo M. Cipolla），意大利著名经济史学家，加州大学伯克利分校经济史学教授，美国艺术与科学学院、美国哲学学会成员，英国皇家历史学会、意大利猞猁之眼国家科学院研究员，著有《两种文化之间》（Between Two Cultures）、《时钟与文化》（Clocks and Culture）等。 【译者简介】 苏世军，北京印刷学院教授、华中工学院（现华中科技大学）英语专业研究生、瑞典北欧公共卫生学院高级访问学者，多年来从事英语和西方文化教学与研究，在国内外发表《历史上最有影响的100人》《爱情的肖像》及“西方编辑出版理论与实务”系列教材等论著、译著、教材、词典20余部。

刘香成，曾任美联社派驻北京、洛杉矶、新德里、汉城、莫斯科记者/摄影记者。拍摄了大量照片，内容涉及西单民主墙、中国20世纪80年代蓬勃发展的经济改革、斯里兰卡宗教冲突、苏联出兵阿富汗及苏联解体。 1992年，因对苏联解体的杰出报道，与同事一起荣膺“普利策现场新闻摄影奖”与“美国海外俱乐部柯达奖”。1989年，被美联社执行编辑协会评为“最佳摄影师”。 2004年被《巴黎摄影》杂志遴选为当代摄影界最有影响力的百位摄影师之一。 著有《毛以后的中国》（企鹅出版社，1983年版）和《苏联：一个国家的解体》（美联社，1993年版），均广受赞誉。主编有《中国：一个国家的肖像》（塔森出版社，2008年版），六种语言全球同步发行，被评为伦敦《星期日泰晤士报》“2008年度最佳摄影画册”。2010年，与凯伦•史密斯合作编著《上海：1842—2010，一座伟大城市的肖像》（...(展开全部)