Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This new volume encompasses the nineteenth century from the revolu...(展开全部)

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This new volume encompasses the nineteenth century from the revolu...(展开全部)

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This new volume encompasses the nineteenth century from the revolu...(展开全部)

“Take Faust, what is it? A ‘tragedy’, as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collection of lyrical insights? Who can say. How about Moby-Dick? Encyclopedia, novel or romance? Or even a ‘singular medley,’ as one anonymous 1851 review put it? ... ‘It is no longer a novel,’ T.S. Eliot said of Ulysses. But if not novels, then what are they?” Literary history has long b...(展开全部)

This book covers the consolidation of the European world-economy during the seventeenth century.

只听到歌声响 起。那是一片火红的世界。放眼望去，整片大地都被盛开的红花所淹没。 除了湛蓝而辽阔的天空以外，什么也没有......歌声再度在红色的大草原上响起。 歌声结束的时候，有个声音问道： “接下来怎么办？” 另一个声音立刻回答： “就跟平常一样，我们再找个地方去罗。” “我同意，就这么办吧。” 第一个声音开心地表示赞同。 然后又说： “你也差不多该把我扶起来了吧，奇诺。“ 这是人类奇诺与会说话的摩托车汉密斯旅行的故事。以短篇小说的形式，串联出前所未见的新感觉小说第4弹！

只听到歌声响 起。那是一片火红的世界。放眼望去，整片大地都被盛开的红花所淹没。 除了湛蓝而辽阔的天空以外，什么也没有......歌声再度在红色的大草原上响起。 歌声结束的时候，有个声音问道： “接下来怎么办？” 另一个声音立刻回答： “就跟平常一样，我们再找个地方去罗。” “我同意，就这么办吧。” 第一个声音开心地表示赞同。 然后又说： “你也差不多该把我扶起来了吧，奇诺。“ 这是人类奇诺与会说话的摩托车汉密斯旅行的故事。以短篇小说的形式，串联出前所未见的新感觉小说第4弹！

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, construc...(展开全部)

It is no longer news that the Western world is in a crisis, a crisis that has spread far beyond its point of origin and become global in nature. In 1927, Ren Gunon responded to this crisis with the closest thing he ever wrote to a manifesto and 'call-to-action'. The Crisis of the Modern World was his most direct and complete application of traditional metaphysical principles-pa...(展开全部)

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, construc...(展开全部)