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)

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”。

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”。

This book is a groundbreaking study of the historical reasons for the divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the threat of contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox and syphilis. In particular the book examines the link between politics and prevention. Did the varying political regimes influence ...(展开全部)

This book is a groundbreaking study of the historical reasons for the divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the threat of contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox and syphilis. In particular the book examines the link between politics and prevention. Did the varying political regimes influence ...(展开全部)

Exotic and yet familiar, rife with passion, immorality, hunger, and freedom, Bohemia was an object of both worry and fascination to workaday Parisians in the nineteenth century. No mere revolt against middle-class society, the Bohemia Seigel discovers was richer and more complex, the stage on which modern bourgeois acted out the conflicts of their social identities, testing the...(展开全部)

In "Democracy in an Age of Globalisation", Otfried Hoffe develops a comprehensive analysis of the demands, which the process of globalization exerts on the political organisations of humanity. The author starts from a diagnosis of the process of globalisation and frees its concept from its economistic narrowing: Globalisation is a comprehensive process which puts new strains on...(展开全部)