Daniel R. Headrick is Professor of Social Science and History at Roosevelt University and author of numerous books on world history.

After Napoleon’s downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a new global history of French imperialism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the mechanisms of imperial collaboration that extended France’s power from the Middle East to ...(展开全部)

Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multi-power invasions of China in 1860 and 1900. Focusing on the processes by which Great Britain enacted a pedagogical project that was itself a form of colonization, ...(展开全部)

Prior to the nineteenth century, the practice of medicine in the Western world was as much art as science. But, argues W. F. Bynum, 'modern' medicine as practiced today is built upon foundations that were firmly established between 1800 and the beginning of World War I. He demonstrates this in terms of concepts, institutions, and professional structures that evolved during this...(展开全部)

Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of 'modernity' that took place in the Eastern Mediterranean over the past two centuries. Leaving their mark on this period are; the turmoil of insurgency in Greece and Egypt, a growing intervention of European Powers in Eastern Mediterranean politics, and the unfolding of l...(展开全部)

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)

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of academic scientists and to the public legitimacy of scientific knowledge. But that was not always the case. At the dawn of the ninet...(展开全部)

沃尔夫冈•希弗尔布施（Wolfgang Schivelbusch, 1941—） 德国历史学家、文化研究学者，1972年于柏林自由大学获博士学位，研究领域为文学、社会学和哲学，现居纽约、柏林。沃尔夫冈是一名独立研究者，不供职于任何一家研究机构，他以精神史研究路径而被人广泛熟知，在观念史与文化史研究领域也有所建树，他将埃利亚斯视为主要的影响以及灵感来源之一。2003年于柏林获海因里希•曼艺术学院奖，2013年于汉堡获莱辛城市奖。 他的主要作品有：《远距离关系：法西斯主义、国家社会主义、罗斯福新政（1933—1939）》《铁幕之前：柏林的思想生活（1945—1948）》《光芒，闪烁和幻想：20世纪的电气照明》《光明：19世纪人造光的历史》等。 金毅（译者） 四川泸州人，北京大学社会学学士、硕士，伦敦政治经济学院人文地理学与城市研究专业博士在读。铁道旅行爱...(展开全部)

The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness—was very much a learned behavior. In The...(展开全部)

Maurice Olender is a Professor of the History of Religions at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he alos serves as Maitre de Conferences. He is the Editor of the journal Le Genre Humain and Director of the series La Librairie du XXIeme Siecle (Seuil, Paris). Arthur Goldhammer is the celebrated translator who has received, among much praise, the pre...(展开全部)