A thought-provoking history of papyrus paper―from its origins in Egypt to its spread throughout the world―revealing how it helped usher in a new era of human history. For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on tablets. But it w...(展开全部)

The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and many parts of the world. “[T]his elegant, readable book. . . sets out to explai...(展开全部)

The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and many parts of the world.

乔纳森·戴利（JonathanDaly），哈佛大学历史学博士，伊利诺伊大学历史学教授，美国斯拉夫研究会成员，研究聚焦于现代文明的诞生和俄罗斯近现代史。在数十年的教学生涯中，戴利广受师生欢迎，并于2008年获雪莉·比尔奖。著有《欧洲如何塑造现代世界》《俄国革命及其影响》等。

乔纳森·戴利（JonathanDaly），哈佛大学历史学博士，伊利诺伊大学历史学教授，美国斯拉夫研究会成员，研究聚焦于现代文明的诞生和俄罗斯近现代史。在数十年的教学生涯中，戴利广受师生欢迎，并于2008年获雪莉·比尔奖。著有《欧洲如何塑造现代世界》《俄国革命及其影响》等。

阿尔弗雷德•W.麦考伊（Alfred W. McCoy），美国知名历史学家。生于1945年，1977年毕业于耶鲁大学，获历史学博士学位。现为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校历史学教授。2012年，耶鲁大学和耶鲁大学研究生院校友会联合授予麦考伊教授“威尔伯•克劳斯勋章”（Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal），表彰他“是研究东南亚历史的世界顶级历史学家，是研究菲律宾政治史、金三角毒品非法交易、地下犯罪集团和国际政治监控的专家”。著有《东南亚的海洛因政治》（The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, 1972）、《对刑讯的质疑：中情局从冷战到反恐战争以来的审讯》（A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on T...(展开全部)