Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as the most dynamic and innovati...(展开全部)

Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as the most dynamic and innovati...(展开全部)

This is the third volume in "The Art Seminar," James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies. Is Art History Global will stage an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. Participants will range from Keith Moxey of Columbia University to Cao Yiqiang, ...(展开全部)

What is it that medieval historians do? And how - and why - do they do it? What is Medieval History? provides an accessible, far-ranging and passionate guide to the study of medieval history. The book discusses the creation of the academic field, the nature of the sources, the intellectual tools used by medievalists, and some key areas of thematic importance from the fall of th...(展开全部)

What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have often derided them as narrow-mindedly studying the ideas of dead white men. Some consider the discipline to be ...(展开全部)

It’s easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction. In What Is Ancient History?, Walter Scheidel presents a compelling case for a new kind of ancient history—a global history that captures antiquity’s pivotal role as a decisive phase in human development, one that provided t...(展开全部)

What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its second edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible guide to the past, present and future of cultural history, as it has been practised not only in the English-speaking world, but also in Continental Europe, As...(展开全部)

彼得·伯克(Peter Burke)，英国历史学家。1937年生，获牛津大学博士。曾执教苏塞克斯大学、剑桥大学，现为剑桥大学文化史荣休教授及伊曼纽学院(Emmanuel college)研究员。伯克的研究专长为西方史学思想和欧洲文化史，致力于史学与社会科学理论的沟通，探索文化史写作的新领地，是当代最著名的新文化史学家之一。著作宏富，包括《语言的文化史——近代早期欧洲的语言和共同体》、《法国史学革命》、《历史写作的新视野》、《20世纪的历史与历史学家》、《什么是文化史》、《文化史的多样性》、《图像证史》、《意大利文艺复兴》等数十种，作品被翻译成三十多种文字出版。 彼得·伯克的系列作品将在北大出版社“社会文化史译丛”与“历史学的实践丛书”中陆续推出。

2001年11月，英国的历史研究院为纪念爱德华卡尔的《历史是什么？》发表四十周年，与剑桥三一学院、麦克米兰公司联合主办了纪念性的研讨会，讨论当代史学实践的现状。会后由David Cannadine选取其中部分关键文章，编辑成书。 Review "Readers will find reliable and insightful information presented without recourse to jargon."--E.A. Breisach, Choice "If anyone were to provide an equivalent to What is History? for the early twenty-first century, it would surely be David Cannadine...as bala...(展开全部)

彼得·伯克(Peter Burke)，英国历史学家。1937年生，获牛津大学博士。曾执教苏塞克斯大学、剑桥大学，现为剑桥大学文化史荣休教授及伊曼纽学院(Emmanuel college)研究员。伯克的研究专长为西方史学思想和欧洲文化史，致力于史学与社会科学理论的沟通，探索文化史写作的新领地，是当代最著名的新文化史学家之一。著作宏富，包括《语言的文化史——近代早期欧洲的语言和共同体》、《法国史学革命》、《历史写作的新视野》、《20世纪的历史与历史学家》、《什么是文化史》、《文化史的多样性》、《图像证史》、《意大利文艺复兴》等数十种，作品被翻译成三十多种文字出版。 彼得·伯克的系列作品将在北大出版社“社会文化史译丛”与“历史学的实践丛书”中陆续推出。