A history of the project of world government, from the first post-Napoleonic visions of the brotherhood of man to the current crisis of global finance. The Napoleonic Wars showed Europe what sort of damage warring states could do. But how could sovereign nations be made to share power and learn to look beyond their own narrow interests? The old monarchs had one idea. Mazzini and the partisans of nationalist democracy had another, and so did Marx and the radical Left. It is an argument that has raged for two hundred years now, and Mark Mazower tells its history enthrallingly in Governing the World . With each era, the stakes have grown higher as the world has grown smaller and the potential rewards to cooperation and damage from conflict have increased. As Mark Mazower shows us, each age’s dominant power has set the tune, and for nearly a century that tune has been sung in English. He begins with Napoleon’s defeat, in 1815, when England, Russia, Austria, and Prussia formed the Concert of Europe. Against this, there emerged many of the ideas that would shape the international institutions of the twentieth century–liberal nationalism, communism, the expertise of the scientist and the professional international lawyers. Mazower traces these ideas into the Great War through to the League of Nations. He explains how the League collapsed when confronted by the atrocities of the Third Reich, and how a more hard-nosed approach to international governance emerged in its wake. The United Nations appeared in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, and a war-fighting alliance led by Great Britain and the United States was ultimately what transformed into an international peacetime organization. Mazower examines the ideas that shaped the UN, the compromises and constraints imposed by the Cold War and its transformation in the high noon of decolonization. The 1970s ushered in a sea change in attitudes to international government through the emergence of a vision of globalized capitalism in the 1970s that marginalized the UN itself and utilized bodies like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization—the final acts of Anglo- American institution-building. But the sun is setting on Anglo-American dominance of the world’s great international institutions. We are at the end of an era, Mazower explains, and we are passing into a new age of global power relations, a shift whose outcome is still very much in question.

How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines--from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Contrary to popular belief, ed tech did not begin with videos on the internet. The idea of technology that would allow students to go at their own pace did not originate in Silicon Valley. In Teaching Machines, education writer Audrey Watters offers a lively history of predigital educational technology, from Sidney Pressey's mechanized positive-reinforcement provider to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Watters shows that these machines and the pedagogy that accompanied them sprang from ideas--bite-sized content, individualized instruction--that had legs and were later picked up by textbook publishers and early advocates for computerized learning. Watters pays particular attention to the role of the media--newspapers, magazines, television, and film--in shaping people's perceptions of teaching machines as well as the psychological theories underpinning them. She considers these machines in the context of education reform, the political reverberations of Sputnik, and the rise of the testing and textbook industries. She chronicles Skinner's attempts to bring his teaching machines to market, culminating in the famous behaviorist's efforts to launch Didak 101, the pre-verbal machine that taught spelling. (Alternate names proposed by Skinner include Autodidak, Instructomat, and Autostructor.) Telling these somewhat cautionary tales, Watters challenges what she calls the teleology of ed tech--the idea that not only is computerized education inevitable, but technological progress is the sole driver of events.

Since its beginnings at the start of the 20th century, educational scholarship has been a marginal field, criticized by public policy makers and relegated to the fringes of academe. An Elusive Science explains why, providing a critical history of the traditions, conflicts, and institutions that have shaped the study of education over the past century.

#美国社会学会杰出职业生涯奖得主经典之作，博采众学科之长，揭示社会转型的本质！ — 内容简介 — 小威廉·休厄尔以兼顾历史学、社会学和人类学的思考著称。《历史的逻辑》认为，只有把历史学家对时间性的复杂理解与社会学家深刻的理论思考结合起来，才能催生出令人满意的社会理论。在本书中，他透露了这种结合可能是怎样的形态，也展现了如此结合能为哪些议题提供指引，以及此举将如何影响历史学和社会学这两个不同的学科。本书于2008年荣获美国社会学学会理论分会杰出理论图书奖。 — 编辑推荐 — 作为美国社会学会比较历史社会学分会首位杰出职业生涯奖得主，作者小威廉·休厄尔在职业生涯中亲身经历了新社会史运动、文化转向、语言学转向等学界重大事件，亦在诸多社会科学学科之间深耕、立著，试图建立不同学科之间的有效对话，以对学术界及全球化和新自由主义的现实有所反思。本书就是休厄尔的这种跨学科身份和关怀的最佳体现。本书不仅开启了历史学、社会学、人类学等学科间的前沿理论对话，更以众多研究实例展示了这种学科“破壁”的可能性。休厄尔在本书中提出的“三种时间性”，更是成为今天历史学与社会学的跨学科产物——历史社会学的理论指引。 — 学者评论 — 《历史的逻辑》发起了历史学家和社会学家关于社会理论的讨论，展现了历史学家对于当前的理论讨论所能发挥的重要贡献。由当下最具影响力、最广受尊敬的历史学家著成的这本书，将会成为我们时代的思想史的一部分。 ——米谢勒·拉蒙，哈佛大学社会学教授、美国社会学学会前任主席 根据小威廉·休厄尔的说法，如果“事件”是“关键性地转变了结构的日常发生的、数量相对稀少的子集”，那么《历史的逻辑》的问世无疑是一个事件。他对不同社会科学专业的知识和文化的惊人涉猎，使他能建立新颖而卓越的连接。历史学与社会理论的关系由此进入新的阶段。 ——谢里·奥特纳，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校人类学教授 这无疑是一部杰出的作品。《历史的逻辑》将为未来讨论社会转型的本质、历史学与社会科学间的关系设定新的理论讨论议程。 ——基思·贝克，斯坦福大学历史学教授 任何一门社会科学，都需要在历史的深度内充分发挥社会学的想象力，在理论的对话中构筑出一个好故事。 史学出身的小威廉·休厄尔，生长于结构功能论与历史社会学并生的浪潮下，他对事件与结构的独到解析，亦能促使我们反思中国本土语境中的个人、关系与社会。《历史的逻辑》一书告诉我们，只有历史学家们打破缄默，彻底审视并且重整从社会科学借鉴的理论，我们才能发展出历史学和社会科学共同追求的、洞悉这个时刻变动的世界的学说。 ——严飞，清华大学社会学教授 对这本书的最佳肯定，也许来自作者休厄尔荣获的美国社会学学会比较历史社会学分会首次颁发的杰出职业生涯奖（2020年）。休厄尔对社会、结构、文化、事件和时间性等基础概念的解答，为社会学家带来了基于历史学的不同思考。读者既能看到休厄尔以抽丝剥茧的方式解读理论名著，又能看到他以哲学人类学的方式将理论难题一步步展开为日用实践，还能读到他从历史经验作品中归纳与反思理论。这本书是多面的、综合的，也是多彩的，值得对历史学、社会学、人类学等议题有兴趣的读者品读。 ——孙宇凡，公众号“Sociological理论大缸”创办人

“Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?” asks one chapter of Kate Brown’s surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montana—America’s largest environmental Superfund site—have much more in common than one would think thanks to similarities in climate, hucksterism, and the perseverance of their few hardy inhabitants. Taking readers to these and other unlikely locales, Dispatches from Dystopia delves into the very human and sometimes very fraught ways we come to understand a particular place, its people, and its history. In Dispatches from Dystopia, Brown wanders the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation, first on the Internet and then in person, to figure out which version—the real or the virtual—is the actual forgery. She also takes us to the basement of a hotel in Seattle to examine the personal possessions left in storage by Japanese-Americans on their way to internment camps in 1942. In Uman, Ukraine, we hide with Brown in a tree in order to witness the annual male-only Rosh Hashanah celebration of Hasidic Jews. In the Russian southern Urals, she speaks with the citizens of the small city of Kyshtym, where invisible radioactive pollutants have mysteriously blighted lives. Finally, Brown returns home to Elgin, Illinois, in the midwestern industrial rust belt to investigate the rise of “rustalgia” and the ways her formative experiences have inspired her obsession with modernist wastelands. Dispatches from Dystopia powerfully and movingly narrates the histories of locales that have been silenced, broken, or contaminated. In telling these previously unknown stories, Brown examines the making and unmaking of place, and the lives of the people who remain in the fragile landscapes that are left behind.

MP3: The Meaning of a Format recounts the hundred-year history of the world's most common format for recorded audio. Understanding the historical meaning of the MP3 format entails rethinking the place of digital technologies in the larger universe of twentieth-century communication history, from hearing research conducted by the telephone industry in the 1910s, through the mid-century development of perceptual coding (the technology underlying the MP3), to the format's promiscuous social life since the mid 1990s.MP3s are products of compression, a process that removes sounds unlikely to be heard from recordings. Although media history is often characterized as a progression toward greater definition, fidelity, and truthfulness, MP3: The Meaning of a Format illuminates the crucial role of compression in the development of modern media and sound culture. Taking the history of compression as his point of departure, Jonathan Sterne investigates the relationship between sound, silence, sense, and noise; the commodity status of recorded sound and the economic role of piracy; and the importance of standards in the governance of our emerging media culture. He demonstrates that formats, standards, and infrastructures - and the need for content to fit inside them - are every bit as central to communication as the boxes we call "media."

关于马克•布洛赫（1886-1944）的第一部传记。布洛赫是一名历史学家，两次世界大战的战士，抵抗运动的领袖，被逮捕后遭到严刑拷打，最终英勇就义。本书以大量私人书信、日记和资料为基础，参考众多尚未公开的档案，呈现了这位爱国者在第三共和国下的光辉一生。作为历史学家，布洛赫最为人熟知的或许是《历史学家的技艺》——对自己的人生事业所做的一系列发人深省的思考——以及《社会经济历史年鉴》杂志的联合创办人。他生活的时代阴云遍布，两次世界大战、反犹主义和集权主义使他深受影响。他勇于直面这些事件，最终成为某种智力型的英雄，他的一生则是竭力捍卫自由批判探索精神的缩影。

In this timely volume, based on a special issue of "Comparative Education Review", leading comparative education scholars explore the world of education in Islam from the medieval era to today, illuminating the continuing struggle among Islamic scholars and educators over whether to reform or resist as a way of preserving identity. "Islam and Education" offers a rare overview of the great diversity in forms of Islamic education, dispelling misinterpretations and documenting the ever-evolving relationship of Islamic education to the West. It will be necessary reading for all humanists and social scientists wishing to understand the relationship between schools and societies, the spiritual dimensions of learning, and the social configuration of educational institutions.

“平成”的30年，一言以蔽之，即“失败的历史”。全球化不断深化，战后形成的日本式体系走向瓦解。政治、经济、雇佣、教育、媒体、防卫，在昭和时代发挥作用的方方面面全部运转失灵，诸多努力不断折戟。日本各研究领域第一流学者总结失败，通过十大主题，呈现最具真实性的平成史。

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself.</p> Khurana begins in the late nineteenth century, when members of an emerging managerial elite, seeking social status to match the wealth and power they had accrued, began working with major universities to establish graduate business education programs paralleling those for medicine and law. Constituting business as a profession, however, required codifying the knowledge relevant for practitioners and developing enforceable standards of conduct. Khurana, drawing on a rich set of archival material from business schools, foundations, and academic associations, traces how business educators confronted these challenges with varying strategies during the Progressive era and the Depression, the postwar boom years, and recent decades of freewheeling capitalism.</p> Today, Khurana argues, business schools have largely capitulated in the battle for professionalism and have become merely purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Professional and moral ideals that once animated and inspired business schools have been conquered by a perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. According to Khurana, we should not thus be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance. The time has come, he concludes, to rejuvenate intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders.</p>

本書首度以考古及文獻資料，重建唐代絲路的風華歲月，讓如今已遭沙塵覆蓋的城鎮，以及曾叱吒一時的部族，再度活躍於我們眼前。本書具有：可信賴、有趣味、富創意、具見地、感人至深等多項特色！對絲路、中國/中亞歷史、旅行文學有興趣者，以及喜歡故事書的讀者一定愛不釋手。

The work of Douglas Harper has for two decades documented worlds in eclipse. A glimpse into the life of dairy farmers in upstate New York on the cusp of technological change, "Changing Works" is no exception. With photographs and interviews with farmers, Harper brings into view a social world attended by machines and stuns us with gorgeous visions of rural times past. As a member of this community, Harper relates compelling stories about families and their dairies that reveal how the advent of industrialized labour changed the way farmers structure their work and organize their lives. His new book charts the transformation of American farming from small dairies based on animal power and cooperative work to industrialized agriculture. "Changing Works" combines Harper's pictures with classic images by photographers such as Gordon Parks, Sol Libsohn and Charlotte Brooks - men and women whose work during the 1940s documented the mechanization and automation of agricultural practices. Part social history and part analysis of the drive to mass production, "Changing Works" examines how we farmed a half century ago versus how we do today through pictures new and old and through discussions with elderly farmers who witnessed the makeover. Ultimately, Harper challenges timely ecological and social questions about contemporary agriculture. He shows us how the dissolution of cooperative dairy farming has diminished the safety of the practice, degraded the way we relate to our natural environment, and splintered the once tight-knit communities of rural farmers. Mindful of the advantages of preindustrial agriculture, and heeding the warning of the alarming spread of mad cow and foot-and-mouth disease, "Changing Works" harks back to the benefits of an older system.

Review Journal of Modern History : The book is a pleasure to read: the prose sparkles; the protagonists are vividly drawn; the illustrations are handsome and illuminating; the insights plentiful and sharp. This will remain the definitive work on the early development of mathematical statistics for some time to come. --Lorraine J. Daston Science : An exceptionally searching, almost loving, study of the relevant inspirations and aberrations of its principal characters James Bernoulli, de Moivre, Bayes, Laplace, Gauss, Quetelet, Lexis, Galton, Edgeworth, and Pearson, not neglecting a grand supporting cast...The definitive record of an intellectual Golden Age, an overoptimistic climb to a height not to be maintained. --M. Stone New York Times Book Review : One is tempted to say that the history of statistics in the nineteenth century will be associated with the name Stigler. --Morris Kline Contemporary Psychology : In this tour de force of careful scholarship, Stephen Stigler has laid bare the people, ideas, and events underlying the development of statistics...He has written an important and wonderful book...Sometimes Stigler's prose is so evocative it is almost poetic. --Howard Wainer Review Stigler's book exhibits a rare combination of mastery of technical materials, sensitivity to conceptual milieu, and near exhaustive familiarity with primary sources. An exemplary study --Lorraine Daston

本書是第一部研究太虛大師佛教改革始末的英文專書。作者除了大量引用原始中文資料外，亦引用了許多西方學者與傳教士的評論，包括太虛思想萌芽的歷史背景、一生的行止與全球性的弘法嘗試，以及其大乘佛教思想的願景架構與遺澤等，研究範圍十分完整，兼具東、西方及跨宗教的觀點與分析，為讀者提供了有別於坊間同類書籍的珍貴資料。 太虛大師是二十世紀最重要、最具爭議性的佛教改革家與思想家。他於民初發起以「人生佛教」思想為主軸的佛教復興運動，試圖改革僧伽制度、提倡積極參與社會活動，以菩薩行在這個世界建立淨土，並實現成佛的誓願。他在當時的佛教界與文化界掀起了一番驚濤駭浪，所獲褒貶不一，甚至曾有保守派人士視他為危險分子。 太虛自認在佛教改革上是失敗的，然而在他圓寂半個世紀後的今天，他所撒下的「人生佛教」種子，經歷了風雨飄搖的動盪年代，已然在台灣佛教界生根並且開花、結果。無論歷史如何評論他的成敗，不容置疑的是，他的影響力此刻正塑造著漢傳佛教的現代面貌。

当年法国是如何利用其共和国世俗学校的模式对非洲进行殖民的？难道非洲人民的独立意愿不正是一种对法国教育模式的一种回应吗？当前非洲的教育危机能够以该殖民教育模式之误来解释吗？这些都是本书试图回答的问题。 本书经过作者耐心细致的调研和深入的思考，对法国在非洲殖民战略的文化影响提出了一种全新的、扎实的且信息量巨大的解读。本书不仅揭示了法国在非洲的文化战略的存在，而且还在恰当内容的基础上，对这一战略加以重新定位、重新甄别，并对其影响进行评估。本书的研究发现，法国在非洲的这种连贯而有效的战略立足于一套经过精心挑选、充分适应时势的固定原则框架之上，使其殖民政策得以把既细致、深入和持久的思维和行为模式移植到非洲人那里去。对此，本书作者提出了一个等式：殖民=灌输。 本书内容翔实地引出了殖民战略认识论上的方法和理论。作者从社会和政治的角度，试图厘清一些提议和框架，旨在阐明一种新的教育战略，为当前非洲教育的危机提供解决之道。

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