约翰·斯梅尔（John Smail），美国历史学家。1988年获斯坦福大学哲学博士学位（Ph.D.,Stanford University），现任美国北卡罗莱纳大学（夏洛蒂校区）教授兼历史系主任。研究领域为近代早期英国社会、经济和文化史，主要代表作有：《中产阶级文化的起源》（1994年）、《商人、市场和制造业：18世纪英国的毛纺织业》（1999年）；编订原始文献有：《约克郡的毛织品制造：韦克菲尔德镇呢市起绒匠约翰·布里尔利的记事本，1758-1762年》（2001年）、《18世纪利兹商人托尔森家族信信札》

奥维•洛夫格伦（Orvar Löfgren），瑞典隆德大学（Lund University）欧洲民族学教授，主要关注文化分析这一新研究方法的运用与发展。其研究课题包括中产阶级生活的兴起、文化与经济，以及当下人们日常生活中常常碰到的“超负荷工作”与“劳累过度”问题等。著有On Holiday：A History of Vacationing（1999），Culture, Magic and Economy（2005），Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis（2006）等。 乔纳森•弗雷克曼（Jonas Frykman），瑞典隆德大学欧洲民族学教授，主要研究身体、记忆和近现代欧洲的日常生活。其专题研究十分广泛，包括维多利亚时代的中产阶级生活、日常习惯、欧洲文化的地方化，以及福利国家与地方文化、日常生活...(展开全部)

The Early Middle Ages, which marked the end of the Roman Empire and the creation of the kingdoms of Western Europe, was a period central to the formation of modern Europe. This period has often been drawn into a series of discourses that are more concerned with the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries than with the distant past. In The Modern Origins of the Early Mid...(展开全部)

"This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David Cannadine An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and society. Using Arthur Schnitzler, the sexually em...(展开全部)

In this fascinating new account of Old Regime Europe, T. C. W. Blanning explores the cultural revolution which transformed eighteenth-century Europe. During this period the court culture exemplified by Louis XIV's Versailles was pushed from the centre to the margins by the emergence of a new kind of space - the public sphere. The author shows how many of the world's most import...(展开全部)

In this fascinating new account of Old Regime Europe, T.C.W. Blanning explores the cultural revolution which transformed eighteenth-century Europe. During this period the court culture exemplified by Louis XIV's Versailles was pushed from the centre to the margins by the emergence of a new kind of space - the public sphere. The author shows how many of the world's most importan...(展开全部)

During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to t...(展开全部)

乔尔‧莫基尔（Joel Mokyr），西北大学罗伯特?H.斯托茨人文科学教授和经济学与历史学教授，特拉维夫大学埃坦?柏格拉斯经济学院教授，曾任美国经济史协会会长。他的研究获得诸多奖项，是美国经济学联合会杰出会士奖、荷兰皇家科学院的海尼根历史学奖和国际巴尔扎恩经济史奖得主。 他已出版了《开明经济》（The Enlightened Economy）和《雅典娜的礼物》（The Gifts of Athena）等多本著作。

Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michhle Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class--the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book is a subtle, textured description of how these men define the values and attitudes...(展开全部)

Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michè le Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class--the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book is a subtle, textured description of how these men define the values and attitude...(展开全部)