In the seventeenth century, previously peaceful relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth deteriorated into a series of military confrontations over the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. Although scholars have generally interpreted this rivalry in terms of conflicting geopolitical interests, this state-centred approach ignores one of th...(展开全部)

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by the cumulative pressure of population growth on limited available resourc...(展开全部)

杰克·A.戈德斯通，乔治·梅森大学公共政策学院VirginiaE.andJohnT.HazelJr.讲座教授，曾因其学术名著《早期现代世界的革命与反抗》（加利福尼亚大学出版社1991年版）一书而获得美国社会学协会奖。

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by the cumulative pressure of population growth on limited available resourc...(展开全部)

Although scholars have begun to revise the traditional view that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries marked a decline in the fortunes of the Ottoman Empire, Baki Tezcan's 2010 book proposes a radical approach to this period. While he concurs that decline did take place in certain areas, he constructs a new framework by foregrounding the proto-democratization of the Ottoman...(展开全部)

Simple paradigms of Muslim-Christian confrontation and the rise of Europe in the seventeenth century do not suffice to explain the ways in which European mapping envisioned the 'Turks' in image and narrative. Rather, maps, travel accounts, compendia of knowledge, and other texts created a picture of the Ottoman Empire through a complex layering of history, ethnography, and eyew...(展开全部)

The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a dramatic, worldwide reform of political and economic systems. Never have so many people enjoyed, or at least experimented with democratic institutions. However, many strategies for economic development in Eastern Europe and Latin America have failed with the result that entire economic systems on b...(展开全部)

亚当·普沃斯基教授，当代美国著名政治学家。1966年在美国西北大学获政治学博士学位，先后任教于华盛顿大学、芝加哥大学与纽约大学，到瑞士、德国、法国、智利、印度、波兰等多个国家做过访问学者。学术研究成果斐然。除了大量的学术论文外，普沃斯基教授还独著、合著或编辑出版了一系列在国际上有重大影响力的学术著作。如《民主、责任与代表》、《可持续性民主》、《资本主义下的国家与经济》等，许多著作一版再版，并被翻译成葡萄牙语、西班牙语、日语、韩语、汉语、土耳其语等多国文字。本书是他的代表作之一。

亚当·普沃斯基教授，当代美国著名政治学家。1966年在美国西北大学获政治学博士学位，先后任教于华盛顿大学、芝加哥大学与纽约大学，到瑞士、德国、法国、智利、印度、波兰等多个国家做过访问学者。学术研究成果斐然。除了大量的学术论文外，普沃斯基教授还独著、合著或编辑出版了一系列在国际上有重大影响力的学术著作。如《民主、责任与代表》、《可持续性民主》、《资本主义下的国家与经济》等，许多著作一版再版，并被翻译成葡萄牙语、西班牙语、日语、韩语、汉语、土耳其语等多国文字。本书是他的代表作之一。

To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of constitutional arrangements distinguished Western Europe from other parts of the world and predisposed it toward liberal democrac...(展开全部)