Steam-power transformed humanity, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the implications of which we now battle with. Steam revolutionized work, land-transport and - the subject of John Darwin's thrilling new book - our relationship with oceans, seas and rivers. The Keys to the World is a history of how, over a remarkably short period of time, steam-power...(展开全部)

约翰•达尔文（John Darwin） 英国国家学术院院士，牛津大学全球史研究中心创始主任、历史系荣休教授、纳菲尔德学院研究员，专注于研究帝国的兴衰史，其著作《后帖木儿时代》曾获“沃尔夫森历史奖”。

In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and interact in the past? How have historic urban patterns impacted on those of the contemporary world? And what were the key driv...(展开全部)

Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management strategies that still visibly shape our ...(展开全部)

威廉•罗森是获奖历史著作《查士丁尼的跳蚤：瘟疫、帝国与欧洲的诞生》（Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe）一书的作者，先后在麦克米伦出版公司（Macmillan）、西蒙与舒斯特出版公司（Simon&Schuster）和自由出版社（the Free Press）做编辑和出版人长达25年。目前居住在新泽西州普林斯顿市。

The age of Baroque witnessed the construction of some magnificent buildings, but what did the work of architects such as Bernini, Guarini and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo and Newton? In this book, George L. Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its shapes and experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He...(展开全部)

The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answ...(展开全部)

The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answ...(展开全部)

The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel's scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, dem...(展开全部)