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《萬物皆可測量》討論的是中世紀晚期和文藝復興時期，在西歐發生的從“定性認知”到“定量認知”的劃時代轉變。這一轉變使得現代科學、技術、商業實踐和官僚制度成為可能。西歐人，如果不是最早，肯定也是屬￿最早發明機械時鐘、幾何上精確的地圖、複式簿記、嚴謹的代數和音樂符號，以及透視法的人。到16世紀，與世界任何其他地方相比，西歐都有更多人習慣定量思考。這些人也因此成為科學、技術、軍備、航海、商業實踐和官僚機構中的領袖，並創造了西方音樂和繪畫歷史上的許多最偉大的傑作。簡言之，《萬物皆可測量》旨在探討1250―1600年間在西歐發生的關於“定量思維”的心態革命，揭示這一劃時代轉變對人類歷史進程的深遠影響。

Galloglass, from the Gaelic gall?glaigh for 'young foreign warriors', were mercenaries from the Western Isles of Scotland who fought in the retinues of Irish magnates from the mid-13th century until t

War and violence took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe, from political and territorial conflict to judicial and social spectacle; from religious persecution and crusade to self-mortifica

Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precise algebraic and musical notations, and perspective painting. By the sixteenth century more people were thinking quantitatively in western Europe than in any other part of the world. The Measure of Reality, first published in 1997, discusses the epochal shift from qualitative to quantitative perception in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. This shift made modern science, technology, business practice and bureaucracy possible.

Between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, the language of politics underwent a radical transformation. The author argues that this transformation amounted to a 'revolution of politics', global in scope, and wide-ranging in its intellectual and moral implications. Not only did the meaning and the range of application of the concept of politics change, but also the status of political science, the role of political education, and the value of political liberty. For three centuries politics had enjoyed the status of the noblest human science, but emerged from the revolution as an ignoble, sordid and depraved activity. It was no longer the means of fighting corruption, but the means of perpetuating it. This 'revolution of politics' has received little attention, despite its importance. This study fills a gap in the history of political thought, and attempts to return to a conception of politics as an activity worth committing ourselves to.

Between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, the language of politics underwent a radical transformation. The author argues that this transformation amounted to a 'revolution of politics', global in scope, and wide-ranging in its intellectual and moral implications. Not only did the meaning and the range of application of the concept of politics change, but also the status of political science, the role of political education, and the value of political liberty. For three centuries politics had enjoyed the status of the noblest human science, but emerged from the revolution as an ignoble, sordid and depraved activity. It was no longer the means of fighting corruption, but the means of perpetuating it. This 'revolution of politics' has received little attention, despite its importance. This study fills a gap in the history of political thought, and attempts to return to a conception of politics as an activity worth committing ourselves to.

本書是從社會學的角度切入藝術史的一部經典之作。意大利文藝復興時期的藝術繁榮對西方社會的發展和聲望有著深遠的影響，諸如喬托、拉菲爾和米開朗基羅等藝術家所作出的個人貢獻無法估量，然而，只有個人天賦才是成就這些大師的唯一決定因素嗎。本書作者通過對1250―1600年期間意大利社會文化史的考察，指出這一時段藝術家之所以能如此自主地發展，主要是因為他們與其藝術贊助者的良好關係，這一時期權力從地方教會與市政當

本書從海洋的視角出發，擷取了近代以前三個不同的百年(1250―1350、1500―1600、1700―1800)，觀察以黃海和東海為中心，北至鄂霍次克海、南至南海的歐亞大陸東邊海域，梳理了基於海洋而產生的人員交流、港口與海洋貿易，技術、信仰、文化的傳播等，以素描般的全景圖方式，重現各個時代的海域及周遭環境的特徵。敘事上打破了將陸地視為歷史描述重點的傳統思維，引領讀者從海洋這個新的角度觀察中國歷史的側面，探索東亞歷史與海洋之間密不可分的關係。