In 1648, Europe was essentially a medieval society. By 1815, it was the powerhouse of the modern world. In exuberant prose, Tim Blanning investigates “the very hinge of European history” ( The New York Times ) between the end of the Thirty Y earsÂ’ War and the Battle of Waterloo that witnessed five of the modern worldÂ’s great revolutions: scientific, industrial, American, Fr...(展开全部)

[英]蒂莫西·布莱宁(Tim Blanning)，剑桥大学现代欧洲史荣休教授、英国国家学术院院士，著有《浪漫主义革命》《腓特烈大帝》等十余部著作。

"The Pursuit of Glory" brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history - from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon. Tim Blanning depicts the lives of ordinary people and the dominant personalities of the age (Louis XIV, Frederick the Great and Napo...(展开全部)

[英]蒂莫西·布莱宁(Tim Blanning)，剑桥大学现代欧洲史荣休教授、英国国家学术院院士，著有《浪漫主义革命》《腓特烈大帝》等十余部著作。

An Economist Best Book of the Year “Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating.”—Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Pen...(展开全部)

An Economist Best Book of the Year “Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating.”—Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Pen...(展开全部)

Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses. However, this is not a new phenomenon: until the industrial revolution, Asia manufactured great quantities of colourful printed cottons that were sold to places as...(展开全部)

1648年，三十年战争结束时，欧洲仍处于世界舞台的边缘。1815年，拿破仑兵败滑铁卢，此时的欧洲已将世界其他地区甩在后面。 这是启蒙和理性的时代，也是信仰与情感的时代，是进步的时代，充满希望，也是停滞的时代，揭示着种种成就的虚幻。在喧哗与骚动、变革和扩张中，欧洲一步步远离中世纪，走向现代世界权力的中心。

After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century...(展开全部)

欧文·金格里奇（1930～）是哈佛一史密森天文台荣退资深天文学家，哈佛大学天文学及科学史双料教授。他曾任哈佛科学史系系主任、美国哲学协会副主席和国际天文学联合会美国委员会主席。他的研究兴趣包括恒星光谱的分析、哥白尼著作的研究和16世纪宇宙学家的研究。除了近六百篇专业论文和学术评论外，他的主要著作有《哥白尼大追寻与其他天文学史探索》（The Great Copernicus Chase and Other Adventures in Astronomical History）、《天眼：托勒密、哥白尼与开普勒》（The Eye of Heaven：Ptolemy，Copernicus，Kepler）和《上帝的宇宙》（God's Universe）。金格里奇及其妻子米里亚姆生活在马萨诸塞州的坎布里奇，他们不仅是旅游爱好者，而且是古书及贝类收藏家。