New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it means to be 'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in the humanities has fostered a renewed appreciation of the formative powers of a dynamic material environment. The Matter of History brings these scientific and humanistic ideas together to develop ...(展开全部)

New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it means to be 'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in the humanities has fostered a renewed appreciation of the formative powers of a dynamic material environment. The Matter of History brings these scientific and humanistic ideas together to develop ...(展开全部)

What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historic...(展开全部)

In this revised edition of Paul Thompson's successful book, he traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of this international movement. He challenges myths of historical scholarship and looks at the use of oral sources by the historian. The author offers advice on designing a project; discusses reliability of oral evidence; considers the co...(展开全部)

保尔・汤普逊是英国埃塞克斯大学社会历史专业的高级讲师。除了主持伦敦国家生活故事集的工作还是《口述史》杂志的创编人。

Before his death in 2003, Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on the ancient world. This posthumous volume brings together a much wider selection, written over some forty years. The subjects range from the sixth century B.C. to the twentieth A.D., from Homer to Wittgenstein by way of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, ...(展开全部)

Before his death in 2003, Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on the ancient world. This posthumous volume brings together a much wider selection, written over some forty years. His legacy lives on in this masterful work, the first collection ever published of Williams' essays on the history of philosophy. The subjects range...(展开全部)

Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history.

米歇尔-罗尔夫·特鲁约将西方对历史上成功的奴隶起义的漠视，与对屠杀的否认以及对阿拉莫战役的争论并置，对权力如何在历史的建构和记录中运作进行了深刻的反思。 Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history.

米歇尔-罗尔夫·特鲁约（Michel-Rolph Trouillot，1949—2012），已故海地裔美国人类学家，芝加哥大学人类学和社会科学教授。特鲁约一生波折，经历传奇。他出身知识分子家庭，父亲是中学教师和律师，母亲是法官，叔叔是海地国家档案馆的馆长和历史学家。特鲁约在从事学术研究之前是词曲作家，后受到迫害而流亡，逃到美国，住在地下室，靠开出租车为生。1978年在纽约城市大学布鲁克林学院获得历史和文化学士学位，而后进入约翰斯·霍普金斯大学攻读人类学，并获得博士学位。从此，特鲁约开始了人类学的研究生涯。 特鲁约曾任约翰斯·霍普金斯大学克里格-艾森豪威尔（Krieger-Eisenhower）杰出人类学教授和全球文化与历史研究所所长，跨文化研究者，曾获古根海姆人文科学奖。1998年进入芝加哥大学，任人类学和社会科学教授。他勇于打破学科间的界限，综合不...(展开全部)