Across the humanities and the social sciences, disciplinary boundaries have come into question as scholars have acknowledged their common preoccupations with cultural phenomena ranging from rituals and ceremonies to texts and discourse. Literary critics, for example, have turned to history for a deepening of their notion of cultural products; some of them now read historical do...(展开全部)

Across the humanities and the social sciences, disciplinary boundaries have come into question as scholars have acknowledged their common preoccupations with cultural phenomena ranging from rituals and ceremonies to texts and discourse. Literary critics, for example, have turned to history for a deepening of their notion of cultural products; some of them now read historical do...(展开全部)

【作者介绍】 许倬云，1930年生，江苏无锡人，1962年获美国芝加哥大学博士学位，先后执教于台湾大学、美国匹兹堡大学，其间多次受聘为香港中文大学、美国夏威夷大学、美国杜克大学、香港科技大学讲座教授。1986年荣任美国人文学社荣誉会士。学贯中西的史学耆宿，精通中国上古史、 文化史、社会史，熟悉西方历史及其理论与思想，擅长利用不同学科的视角和方法来研究历史，尤其是考察中国的历史与文化；不囿于书斋，时时心怀天下，关心中国文化的发展与走向。代表著作有《西周史》《汉代农业》《中国古代社会史论》《万古江河》《我者与他者》《说中国》等。 【作者自述】 我写这本书就是要给大家一个可读的东西，我不要再去记录朝代、皇帝、祖国的光荣，我要摆开看，老百姓过日子怎么样，老百姓怎么想。我的书里没有一个英雄人物。我希望把引导读者进入一个包含中国，却超越中国的新的人类社会。 我讲...(展开全部)

In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought. Tracing its development from beginnings in postwar Britain, through its various transformations in the 1960s and 1970s, to the emergence of British cultural studies at Birmingham, and up to the advent of Thatcherism, Dworkin shows this hi...(展开全部)

The New Art History provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental changes which have occurred in both the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years. Jonathan Harris examines and accounts for the new approaches to the study of art which have been grouped loosely under the term 'the new art history'. He distinguishes between these and earlie...(展开全部)

Since its initial publication in Berlin in 1928, Jan Tschichold's "The New Typography" has been recognized as the definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. First published in English in 1995, with an excellent introduction by Robin Kinross, this new edition includes a foreword by Rich Hendel, who considers current thinking about Tschichold's life and wo...(展开全部)

One of the most common--and wounding--misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don't love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literat...(展开全部)

One of the most common--and wounding--misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don't love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literat...(展开全部)

Carlos Rojas presents a sweeping survey of the historical and political significance of one of the world's most recognizable monuments. Although the splendor of the Great Wall has become virtually synonymous with its vast size, the structure's conceptual coherence is actually grounded on the tenuous and ephemeral stories we tell about it. These stories give life to the Wall and...(展开全部)

In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the practice and writing of history. Dust considers the immutable, stubborn set of beliefs about the material world, past and present, inherited from the nineteenth century, with which ...(展开全部)