The Radiance of France asks how it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else. In the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a distinctive role for itself in the modern, postcolonial world, the nation and its leaders enthusiastically embraced large technological ...(展开全部)

Contributors ask whether it is more useful to conceive of the world as arrayed in regional, cultural, institutional complexes or organized along the conventional dimensions of power, alliance, and geography. They argue that perspectives that neglect the roles of culture and identity are no longer adequate to explain the complexities of a world undergoing rapid change.

Contributors ask whether it is more useful to conceive of the world as arrayed in regional, cultural, institutional complexes or organized along the conventional dimensions of power, alliance, and geography. They argue that perspectives that neglect the roles of culture and identity are no longer adequate to explain the complexities of a world undergoing rapid change.

◎作者简介 保罗·贝茨（Paul Betts），牛津大学圣安东尼学院现代欧洲史教授，长期从事现代欧洲文化史，特别是20世纪德国史研究，曾任英国德国历史学会主席、牛津大学圣安东尼学院欧洲研究中心主任等职。代表作有《墙内：德意志民主共和国的私人生活》（Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic，获维纳图书馆当代史奖）、《毁灭与重生：二战后欧洲文明的重建》（Ruin and Renewal：Civilising Europe After the Second World War，获2021年美国哲学学会雅克·巴赞文化史奖）。 译者： 陈超，青年译者，毕业于中山大学，主要译著有：《奥威尔作品全集》《我们》《美丽新世界》《帝国之秋》《在路上》《海洋之星》《影子游戏》等。

In 1945, Europe lay in ruins - its cities and towns destroyed by conflict, its economies crippled, its societies ripped apart by war and violence. In the years that followed, Europeans tried to make sense of what had happened - and to forge a new understanding of civilisation that would bring peace and progress to a broken continent. As they wrestled with questions great and sm...(展开全部)

'Modern Japanese Cuisine is one of those rare scholarly books that should appeal to the palate of the general literary omnivore as well as to the more specialized tastes of the professional scholar . . . well-researched and concise.' - Monumenta Nipponica 'Culinary history has opened up new perspectives in the study of culture, technology, economics, and politics as well as oth...(展开全部)

梅尔文·P.莱夫勒（Melvyn P.Leffler），美国著名冷战史学家，弗吉尼亚大学爱德华·斯退汀纽斯历史学教授，曾任美国外交史学家协会主席，代表作有《权力优势：国家安全、杜鲁门政府和冷战》（班克罗夫特奖）和《人心之争：美国、苏联与冷战》（乔治·路易斯·皮尔奖）等，与文安立共同主编《剑桥冷战史》（三卷本）。 孙建中，国际政治学者，上海全球治理与区域国别研究院研究员，《国际观察》副主编，主要研究领域为中美关系、大国战略和国际安全。著有《国家主权：理想与现实》《大国与大国政治》《国际政治概论》等书，译有《国际体系中的进攻与防御》《和平的幻想》《零国集团时代》等书。