A new and original history of the forces that shaped the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was democratic values had prevailed over dictatorship. But if the twentieth century meant the triumph of liberalism, as many intellectuals proc...(展开全部)

弗兰茨·奥本海默（英语：Franz Oppenheimer，1864年3月30日－1943年9月30日），生于柏林，死于加州洛杉矶，德国犹太社会学家，政治经济学家，出版的作品涉及主权国家的基本社会理念。 在弗雷堡和柏林学习了医学后，奥本海姆在1886至1895年间在柏林行医。自1890年以后，他开始倾向于研究社会政治学和社会经济学问题。在结束医生生涯后，他成为了《上午世界》（Welt am Morgen）杂志的主编，在这里结识了弗雷德里克·瑙曼，当时瑙曼还在替不同的报社挨家挨户送报纸。 1909年，奥本海姆凭借一篇论述经济学家大卫·李嘉图的论文获得了基尔大学的博士学位。自1909年至1917年，奥本海姆在柏林先是做无薪讲师，然后做了两年挂名教授。在1914年他成了“解放俄国犹太人德国委员会”组织的联合创始人之一。1919年他接受了法兰克福的约翰-沃尔...(展开全部)

This ambitious book explores the role of empire in world history. What does it mean to be an empire? How does one empire differ from another? Why does an empire rise and why fall? Why have empires flourished in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? On an unusally wide canvas, Dominic Lieven addresses all these questions. His central focus is on the rise and...(展开全部)

Dominic Lieven, a former Kennedy scholar at Harvard University, is professor of Russian government at the London School of Economics. Among his many publications are the highly praised Nicholas II and Russia’s Rulers under the Old Regime, published by Yale University Press.

How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire from ancient Rome to the present. The central focus of the book is Russia and the rise and fall of the Tsarist and the Soviet Empir...(展开全部)

How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire from ancient Rome to the present. The central focus of the book is Russia and the rise and fall of the Tsarist and the Soviet Empir...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗•尼罗普，丹麦学者，博士，哥本哈根大学教授，以教授浪漫主义哲学著名。《接吻简史》出版后，尼罗普博士因创作此书而享誉一时。

Although the work of Pierre Francastel (1900-1970) has long carried the label "sociology of art," it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. For too long Francastel has been unavailable to English-language readers, and hence known only through erroneous and secondhand characterizations. This translation of Art and Technology should open the way for a r...(展开全部)

乔治·萨顿(George Sarton，1884～1956)，出生于比利时，但是在美国成就了他的事业。正是在他手中，科学史最终成为一门正式学科。1913年他创办了著名科学史杂Isis，并担任主编长达40年。1940年他被任命为哈佛大学的科学史教授。人们认为他创造了科学史这门学科的“工具、标准以及批判的自觉性”，故誉之为“科学史之父”。萨顿生前出版了15部专著，发表了340多篇论文和札记，编辑了79份详尽的科学史重要研究文献目录。这些都是他留给后人的珍贵遗产。