Визуальная антропология: городские карты памяти

Под редакцией Павла Романова, Елены Ярской-Смирновой (Библиотека Журнала исследований социальной политики). М.: ООО «Вариант», ЦСПГИ, 2009

«Городские карты памяти» представляют возможность исторических экскурсов и когнитивную реконструкцию повседневного опыта. Эта книга стала продолжением издательской инициативы Центра социальной политики и гендерных исследований в области визуального анализа. Авторы обращаются к исследованию символической организации городского пространства, применяя методологию картирования городской среды, изучают способы восприятия и освоения людьми городских контекстов, интерпретируют репрезентации в массовой культуре и дискурсы о городских путешествиях, обсуждая очертания городов, меняющиеся под влиянием социальной и культурной политики. Пристально вглядываясь в городские ареалы и миры, исследователи обращают внимание на разнообразные универсумы жизненных стилей, рассматривают их социальную организацию и культурные практики в динамике глобального и локального, в условиях постоянно обновляемых технологий коммуникации. Издание адресовано антропологам, социологам, культурологам, всем тем, кого интересуют возможности и принципы визуальных исследований культуры и общества.

The History of the Mongol Conquests J. J. Saunders

The History of the Mongol Conquests
J. J. Saunders

The Mongol conquests, culminating with the invasion of Europe in the middle of the thirteenth century, were of a scope and range never equaled. These nomadic peoples from central Asia briefly held sway over an empire that stretched across Asia to the frontiers of Germany and the shores of the Adriatic. Surprisingly little has been written on this vast and immensely influential empire, known chiefly through the charismatic leaders, Chingis Khan and Kublai Khan.

J. J. Saunders's landmark book, first published in 1972, is a carefully documented introductory history of the rise and fall of the great Mongol empire. Saunders sets the historical stage with a discussion of nomad groups and cultures at the dawn of the second millennium, and then traces the rise of the Mongol conquests through the earlier Turkish expansion into Asia between the eighth and twelfth centuries. Beginning in the early 1200s, the Mongols led by Chingis Khan began their insatiable assault on all the kingdoms and peoples around them, erasing whole cities, killing entire populations, forcing mass migrations, and permanently changing the distribution of the world's major religions. The Mongols were finally checked along the edges of Europe and forced out of the Middle East by rejuvenated Muslim factions.

As Saunders concludes, one of the major legacies of the Mongol conquests was the transfer of intellectual and scientific primacy of the Old World from Islamic societies to Western Europe, paving the way for the Renaissance.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001
ISBN-10: 0812217667 ISBN-13: 978-0812217667

Чингиз-хан и Чингизиды. Судьба и власть Т. И. Султанов

Чингиз-хан. Величайший полководец и завоеватель Азии. Основатель огромной, могущественной империи, которая начала распадаться вскоре после его смерти. Какова была судьба его потомков и созданных ими государств — Моголистана, Чагатайского улуса и хорошо знакомой российским читателям Золотой Орды? Кто из Чингизидов и какими путями приходил к высшей власти? Как наследовался престол, на который имели равные права все Чингизиды? Это — лишь немногие из вопросов, на которые отвечает книга знаменитого отечественного тюрколога профессора Т.И. Султанова.

АСТ, АСТ Москва, 2006 г.
ISBN 5-17-035804-0, 5-9713-1680-X

История монголов

Монгольская империя. Она охватила практически всю Евразию, и лишь на территории Венгрии монголов остановили, вынудив повернуть назад, - но даже тогда им удалось сохранить все завоеванные ранее земли.

Эта средневековая империя рассматривается многими как несомненный исторический феномен. Исследования его предпринимались неоднократно.

Путевые записки францисканского монаха Иоанна Плано Карпини и фламандского путешественника Виллема Рубрука сохранили для нас картины неповторимого мира монгольской цивилизации, долгое время остававшейся для Западной Европы настоящей загадкой - и в силу своей исторической, географической, ментальной расположенности; и - в силу военно-политической ситуации XIII века, когда монгольская конница, словно ураган, прошла с востока на запад по евроазиатскому континенту.
Представленный в записках этнографическое, историческое и географическое описание монголов дает читателю возможность сложить собственное представление об этом удивительном этническом феномене, оставившем свой глубокий след в нашем прошлом.

Основополагающий труд великого отечественного ученого Н.Я.Бичурина (Иакинфа) считается во всем мире классической работой по истории монголов.


Никита Бичурин История четырех ханов из дома Чингисова
Джиованни дель Плано Карпини История монгалов, именуемых нами татарами
Гильом де Рубрук Путешествие в восточные страны
Марко Поло Книга Марко Поло
Стэнли Лэн-Пуль Монголы XIII-XVIII веков

АСТ, АСТ Москва, Хранитель, Мидгард, 2008 г.
ISBN 978-5-17-047433-2, 978-5-9713-6581-5, 978-5-9762-4742-0

Джек Уэзерфорд Чингисхан и рождение современного мира

Чингисхан. Один из величайших завоевателей в мировой истории. Правитель, покоривший множество стран и народов. Сын нищих изгнанников, ставший могущественным монархом и непобедимым военачальником. Но каким он был в реальности?
Ответ на этот вопрос вам предлагает великолепная книга Джека Уэзерфорда — известного американского ученого, работавшего в закрытых прежде для иностранцев районах Монголии — родины Чингисхана — и включившего в свое исследование уникальные материалы.


АСТ, 2008 г. ISBN 978-5-17-048486-7, 5-17-031548-1, 978-5-17-031548-2

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

It is a narrative of the rise and impact of Genghis Khan, and of his successors. In addition to various accounts in English, it refers to three major non-Western sources: The Secret History of the Mongols, the Ta' rīkh-i jahān-gushā of Juvayni and the Jami al-Tawarikh of Rashid-al-Din Hamadani. Weatherford has the ambition to present Genghis Khan in a far more positive light than traditional Western historiography. The last section of the book deals with historiography of Genghis Khan in the West and argues that his earlier image as an "excellent, noble king" was converted into that of a bloodthirsty pagan during the Age of Enlightenment.

“Reads like the Iliad. . . Part travelogue, part epic narrative.” — Washington Post
“Weatherford’s lively analysis restores the Mongol’s reputation, and it takes wonderful learned detours. . . . Well written and full of suprises.” — Kirkus Reviews
2004 New York Times Best Seller book
Broadway, 2005. ISBN-10: 0609809644 ISBN-13: 978-0609809648

Л.Грэхэм, Ж.-М.Кантор «Имена бесконечности: правдивая история о религиозном мистицизме и математическом творчестве»

Перевод с английского, совсем новая книга (оригинал — 2009). Биография нескольких французских и русских математиков конца XIX — начала XX века; и история об отношениях математики и религиозного мистицизма. «Центральный сюжет этой книги — соревнование французских и русских математиков, искавших новый ответ на один из старейших вопросов математики — на вопрос о природе бесконечности. Французская школа шла по пути рационалистических решений. Российские же ученые, в частности Дмитрий Егоров и Николай Лузин — основатели знаменитой московской математической школы — руководствовались совсем иными идеями. Они вдохновлялись религиозными прозрениями имяславия — мистического православного движения, заключающегося в особом почитании имени божьего и оформившегося первоначального в среде русских монахов на Афоне. После выдворения имяславцев с Афона в 1913 году они оказались рассеяны по всей России, само же учение, однако, сохранило существенное влияние в среде интеллектуалов. Именно эта религиозная практика и послужила толчком для одного из крупнейших прорывов в математике, позволив русским ученым заглянуть в бесконечное и открыть дескриптивную теорию множеств». - Афиша

Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2011

Mao’s Great Famine by Frank Dikötter

Otto von Bismarck 'made' Germany but never 'ruled' it. He was a political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality and for twenty eight years he acted as a prime minister but without a party.
This biography takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities and one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. It uses the diaries and letters of his contemporaries to explore a man who never said a dull thing or wrote a slack sentence. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the press. Bismarck’s personality combined creative and destructive traits, generosity and pettiness, tolerance and ferocious enmity, courtesy and rudeness - in short, not only the most important nineteenth-century statesman but by far the most entertaining.
Jonathan Steinberg served for 33 years at Cambridge University as University Lecturer and then Reader in European History, Fellow of Trinity Hall, and Vice-Master. He now teaches at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where he is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History. Steinberg has written on twentieth century Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
Samuel Johnson Prize 2011 Shortlist

Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg

Otto von Bismarck 'made' Germany but never 'ruled' it. He was a political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality and for twenty eight years he acted as a prime minister but without a party.

This biography takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities and one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. It uses the diaries and letters of his contemporaries to explore a man who never said a dull thing or wrote a slack sentence. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the press. Bismarck’s personality combined creative and destructive traits, generosity and pettiness, tolerance and ferocious enmity, courtesy and rudeness - in short, not only the most important nineteenth-century statesman but by far the most entertaining.

Jonathan Steinberg served for 33 years at Cambridge University as University Lecturer and then Reader in European History, Fellow of Trinity Hall, and Vice-Master. He now teaches at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where he is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History. Steinberg has written on twentieth century Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.

Samuel Johnson Prize 2011 Shortlist

The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist, Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better.
Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet. Today there are more than 6 billion, 99 per cent of whom are better fed, better sheltered, better entertained and better protected against disease than their Stone Age ancestors. Yet, bizarrely, however much things improve from the way they were before, people still cling to the belief that the future will be nothing but disastrous.
In this original, optimistic book, Matt Ridley puts forward his surprisingly simple answer to how humans progress, arguing that we progress when we trade and we only really trade productively when we trust each other.
Matt Ridley received his BA and D. Phil at Oxford researching the evolution of behaviour. He has been science editor, Washington correspondent and American editor of The Economist. His books have sold over half a million copies, been translated into 25 languages and been shortlisted for six literary prizes. In 2007 Matt won the Davis Prize from the US History of Science Society for Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code. He is married to the neuroscientist Professor Anya Hurlbert.

Уинстон Черчилль Вторая мировая война. В 6 томах (комплект из 3 книг)

К 65-летию Победы "Альпина нон-фикшн" издает трехтомную историю Второй мировой войны Черчилля. Комплект выходит тиражом в 5000 экземпляров с качественной полиграфией.
В трех книгах публикуется в сокращенном переводе с английского шеститомное издание мемуаров бывшего премьер-министра Великобритании. Автор приводит малоизвестные исторические факты, характеристики видных государственных и военных деятелей, документы предвоенного и военного времени. Этот грандиозный труд, написанный выдающимся политиком, скрупулезным историком и талантливым литератором, позволяет читателю ощутить дух эпохи и драматизм описываемых событий. Книга рассчитана на широкий круг читателей.

Дали и я Dali and I: The surreal Story. Лоуриссенс Стэн

Международный бестселлер - биография ("тайная история") Дали, написанная в тюрьме арт-дилером, осужденным за торговлю картинами сомнительными "дали" и перековавшимся в писатели - Лоуриссенс стал автором детективов и даже был награжден премией Эркюля Пуаро за лучший детективный роман года. Текст очень живой, написан от "я". Дали, утверждает Лоуриссенс, который, скрываясь от следствия, провел много времени в Каталонии, общаясь с богемным окружением мастера, не просто прекрасно знал о том, что его работы подделывались, - но и сам потворствовал фальсификаторам. Дали был не только художником; этот успешный арт-проект был фабрикой, на которой производились очень большие деньги. В общем, книга-разоблачение; интересная.

АСТ, АСТ Москва, 2010 г.
Твердый переплет, 256 стр.
ISBN 978-5-17-049410-1, 978-5-403-02930-8

Самодержец пустыни. Барон Р. Ф. Унгерн-Штернберг и мир, в котором он жил. Леонид Юзефович

Новое, исправленное и расширенное почти вдвое издание книги «Самодержец пустыни: барон Р.Ф. Унгерн-Штернберг и мир, в котором он жил», Opus Magnum лауреата премий «Национальный бестселлер» (2001) и «Большая книга» (2009) Леонида Юзефовича, представляет собой документальную биографию одного из самых загадочных персонажей русской истории ХХ века. Знаменитый «черный барон» Роман Федорович Унгерн-Штернберг (1886 – 1921) прославился не только своей жестокостью, но и небывалым утопическим проектом спасения умирающей европейской цивилизации по принципу ex oriente lux («свет с востока»). Белый генерал, буддист и муж китайской принцессы, в 1921 году он со своей Азиатской дивизией разгромил китайские войска в Монголии, освободив ее из-под власти Пекина, после чего вторгся в Советскую Россию, но был захвачен в плен и расстрелян. В книге объемом более 600 страниц (около 100 фотографий, многие из которых публикуются впервые) читателю предлагается совершить необыкновенное по экзотичности путешествие во времени и пространстве, погрузившись в атмосферу Гражданской войны на востоке России, монгольского буддизма и Серебряного века русской культуры.

На самом деле в книге двое рассказчиков: скептик иронизирует над «барабанной мистикой» вокруг барона и демонстрирует нам комическое несоответствие идеи материальному миру. Романтик транслирует величие Монголии, матки очень странных людей и идей. Сейчас кажется, что Унгерну повезло с биографом больше, чем биографу — с героем. - Афиша

Юзефович описывает странную эпоху, в которой коммунисты верили в древние сказания, а новейшее на тот момент вооружение — пулеметы и аэропланы — сосуществовало в войсках с древнейшими суевериями. Однако «Самодержец пустыни» — это не просто качественный нон-фикшн. Книга Юзефовича может стать примером того, как писать хороший исторический науч-поп. - Ведомости

История в изложении Юзефовича соперничает в причудливой увлекательности с важнейшими текстами современной литературы, от Сорокина до Пелевина, а в некотором смысле и превосходит их. - Эксперт

Издательство: Ад Маргинем, 2010 г.
ISBN 978-5-91103-102-2

Университетское пространство и его обитатели. Ирина Кулакова

Книга И.П.Кулаковой посвящена историко-культурной коллизии, сложившейся в Москве 2-й половины XVIII века. Московский университет, возникший здесь в 1755 г. по воле государства, был создан по образцу западноевропейских университетов. Однако он не стал слепком с чужеродной культуры, испытывая влияние российских культурных традиций и вполне конкретного городского окружения. В книге анализируются "тектонические" процессы, идущие как внутри университетского сообщества, так и в русской культуре в целом. Театр и сады Москвы, масонские объединения и газета, научные общества и городские гуляния - эти и многие другие явления оказались связаны с университетом. А его открытость, многоаспектность его влияния на окружающее культурное пространство, патриархальные черты - это те особенности Московского университета, которые закладывались в XVIII в. и определили его характер в дальнейшем.

Новый хронограф, 2006 г.
ISBN 5-94881-013-5

Премия Просветитель - 2011 лонг-лист

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

In a wide-ranging intellectual career, Michel de Montaigne found no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well. By casting her biography of the writer as 20 chapters, each focused on a different answer to the question How to live? Bakewell limns Montaigne’s ceaseless pursuit of this most elusive knowledge. Embedded in the 20 life-knowledge responses, readers will find essential facts—when and where Montaigne was born, how and whom he married, how he became mayor of Bordeaux, how he managed a public life in a time of lethal religious and political passions. But Bakewell keeps the focus on the inner evolution of the acute mind informing Montaigne’s charmingly digressive and tolerantly skeptical essays. Flexible and curious, this was a mind at home contemplating the morality of cannibals, the meaning of his own near-death experience, and the puzzlingly human behavior of animals. And though Montaigne has identified his own personality as his overarching topic, Bakewell marvels at the way Montaigne’s prose has enchanted diverse readers—Hazlitt and Sterne, Woolf and Gide—with their own reflections. Because Montaigne’s capacious mirror still captivates many, this insightful life study will win high praise from both scholars and general readers. - Booklist

“This charming biography shuffles incidents from Montaigne’s life and essays into twenty thematic chapters…Bakewell clearly relishes the anthropological anecdotes that enliven Montaigne’s work, but she handles equally well both his philosophical influences and the readers and interpreters who have guided the reception of the essays.” —The New Yorker

“Ms. Bakewell’s new book, How to Live, is a biography, but in the form of a delightful conversation across the centuries.” —The New York Times

“So artful is Bakewell’s account of [Montaigne] that even skeptical readers may well come to share her admiration.” — The New York Times Book Review

“Extraordinary…a miracle of complex, revelatory organization, for as Bakewell moves along she provides a brilliant demonstration of the alchemy of historical viewpoint.” —Boston Globe

“[Bakewell reveals] one of literature's enduring figures as an idiosyncratic, humane, and surprisingly modern force.” —Publisher’s Weekly (starred)

National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner

Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History, 1789-2007. By Carter Vaughn Findley Ph.D.

Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity reveals the historical dynamics propelling two centuries of Ottoman and Turkish history. As mounting threats to imperial survival necessitated dynamic responses, ethnolinguistic and religious identities inspired alternative strategies for engaging with modernity. A radical, secularizing current of change competed with a conservative, Islamically committed current. Crises sharpened the differentiation of the two currents, forcing choices between them.

The radical current began with the formation of reformist governmental elites and expanded with the advent of “print capitalism,” symbolized by the privately owned, Ottoman-language newspapers. The radicals engineered the 1908 Young Turk revolution, ruled empire and republic until 1950, made secularism a lasting “belief system,” and still retain powerful positions.

"Findley's examination of four compelling topics results in a remarkable story of a nation finding its identity--both as a place on the map and in the minds of people the world over."—Publishers Weekly

Carter Vaughn Findley is a Humanities Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University and an honorary member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences.

2010 Ohio Academy of History Publications Award
2010 Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies

Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

In his introduction, veteran biographer Chernow is clear about his goals. Using the recent "explosion of research," he wants to render George Washington "real" and "credible," to replace "frosty respect" with "visceral appreciation." In many respects, Chernow succeeds. He gives us a Washington who starts with limited education and means and, through a remarkable combination of timely deaths, an incredible capacity for hard work, a shrewd marriage, astonishing physical hardiness and courage, a propensity for land speculation, and a gift for finding influential patrons, transforms himself into a soldier, well-to-do planter, local official, and eventually the only real choice to command the Continental army, preside over the Constitutional Convention, and serve as the first president. Chernow makes familiar scenes fresh (like the crossing of the Delaware) and expertly brings the provisional revolutionary and early Republican eras to life. Along the way, however, he mistakes "visceral" for ardent; while he never hides Washington's less than saintly moments or shirks the vexed question of slavery, he often seems to ignore the data he's collected. Examples of shady dealing are quickly followed by tales of Washington's unimpeachable ethics or impeccable political savvy. At times it feels as if Chernow, for all his careful research and talent for synthesis, is in the grip of a full-scale crush. The result is a good book that would have been great if better edited, and if Chernow had trusted that Washington's many merits, even when accompanied by his faults, would speak for themselves. Publishers Weekly

Pulitzer Prize (Biography or Autobiography) Awarded to “Washington: A Life,” by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press), a sweeping, authoritative portrait of an iconic leader learning to master his private feelings in order to fulfill his public duties.

Ньютон. Питер Акройд

Автор скупыми, но уверенными штрихами набрасывает и фон – социальный и научный мир, окружавший его героя, – и сам портрет. Герой получается не слишком привлекательный

While the prolific Ackroyd (London, among many others), in this addition to his Brief Lives series, doesn't provide new insights into one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, he does present a well-written distillation of the life and accomplishments of Isaac Newton (1642–1727). Newton's scientific achievements are legend, from the creation of calculus to the formulation of the theory of gravity. Ackroyd asserts that the devout Newton, acting largely alone, institutionalized modern scientific method by demanding data and experimentation rather than supernatural explanations based in belief. Even though Newton studied alchemy, it was always within the construct of science, says Ackroyd. The biographer presents the other side of Newton as well: his quirky personality, the insecurity that made it difficult for him to tolerate any criticism and kept him from publishing many of his ideas for extended periods. And he shows how Newton, a loner as a young man, left the isolation of Cambridge University for London and the public sphere as master of the mint and president of the prestigious Royal Society. The vindictive Newton held extended grudges for slights, real or imagined, and Ackroyd summarizes the decades-long disputes with Robert Hooke and Royal Astronomer John Flamsteed. In short, Ackroyd does a commendable job in this introduction to a very complex genius. Publishers Weekly

“[Ackroyd] may well be the most prolific English author of his generation. And, which I find encouraging, he can write movingly and revealingly about Isaac Newton while being no more of a scientist or mathematician than I am.” – Vanity Fair

“Written in splendidly elastic prose, each sentence a springboard for the next, it provides a concise, fair and highly readable biography of a singular genius'.” – The Times

“Ackroyd's essay on [Newton] is understated and elegantly constructed.” – The Guardian

“Beautifully written and engaging.” – BBC History

Джейн Джекобс. Смерть и жизнь больших американских городов

В 1961 году приметливая американская журналистка Джейн Джекобс (1916–2006) издала книгу, которая стала «мгновенной классикой». Ее интересовали города — не идеальные, а реальные, города-организмы — что с ними происходит, какие циклы они проживают. Почему образуются мертвые зоны вокруг общественных зданий, почему одни книжные магазины работают всю ночь, а другие закрываются в семь вечера, почему одни кварталы деградируют и превращаются в трущобы, а другие, напротив, улучшаются. На многих десятках (не только американских) примеров она показала, что городское планирование часто уничтожало сложившиеся коммьюнити; что горизонтальные структуры в городе лучше вертикальных; что городским властям следует руководствоваться не абстрактными идеями, а наблюдениями за повседневной жизнью; что массовая типовая застройка — зло, а лифтеры в домах — благо. Главное достоинство города/района — когда он «живой» (как, например, нью-йоркский Гринвич-Виллидж), когда людям нравится их район, когда они используют его с удовольствием, когда много общаются друг с другом прямо на улицах и т.п. - Афиша

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating and exciting study of this [great problem] which I have seen. It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense." — The New York Times

ISBN 978-0679600473 (eng.)
Новое издательство, 2011 г., ISBN 978-5-98379-149-7 (рус.)

Вукан Р.Вучик. Транспорт в городах, удобных для жизни

Вучик — американский профессор, урбанист, точнее, транспортник — и не только теоретик, но и практикующий консультант многих городских администраций. Его монография — огромный, близкий к 6 сотням страниц том — замечательно «русифицирована».
Вучик пользуется понятием livable city: город, удобный для жизни. Это универсальная урбанистическая идея, у которой есть несколько аспектов, и один из них — транспортный; на нем и сосредоточивается автор. Смысл в том, что «город, удобный для жизни» — это город, в котором прежде всего комфортно пешеходам и велосипедистам, и только во вторую очередь — для автомобилистов. Сколько ни строй дорог — спрос невозможно удовлетворить, он заведомо больше, чем город может предложить. Радикальный неолиберализм — в данном случае идея о том, что капиталистические отношения сами все расставят по местам, — не работает. Государство должно регулировать транспорт в городе — ограничивать автомобилистов. Автомобилеориентированные города — зло; из-за автомобилей в них (у нас) разобщенное общество, деградация городской среды в целом. - Афиша

Город в теории. Опыты осмысления пространства. Елена Трубина

Автор – доктор философских наук и рассматривает город скорее с культурологической/антропологической/философской точки зрения, чем с прагматической. С другой стороны, тот факт, что научные интересы Елены Трубиной далеко не исчерпываются урбанистикой, пусть даже широко понятой, обеспечивает ее взгляду на проблематику городского пространства удивительную панорамность и системность. - Openspace.ru

Новое литературное обозрение, Москва, 2011

The Regional City. Peter Calthorpe

Readers interested in environmental issues and urban development should hungrily consume Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton's innovative contribution, The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl. Authors of The Next American Metropolis and The Reluctant Metropolis, respectively, Calthorpe and Fulton argue that the design of our current metropolitan regionsAinner cities surrounded by rings of isolated suburbs filled with malls and office parksAhas placed our remaining land at considerable risk and exacerbates the divide between the rich and the poor. According to the authors, these "edge cities" have sprawled beyond human scale, and they suggest a regional model that they claim will offer a cleaner, more socially equitable U.S. for the 21st century. - Publishers Weekly

# ISBN-13: 978-1559637848

Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change. Peter Calthorpe

“Cities are green” is becoming a common refrain. But Calthorpe argues that a more comprehensive understanding of urbanism at the regional scale provides a better platform to address climate change. In this groundbreaking new work, he shows how such regionally scaled urbanism can be combined with green technology to achieve not only needed reductions in carbon emissions but other critical economies and lifestyle benefits. Rather than just providing another checklist of new energy sources or one dimensional land use alternatives, he combines them into comprehensive national growth scenarios for 2050 and documents their potential impacts. In so doing he powerfully demonstrates that it will take an integrated approach of land use transformation, policy changes, and innovative technology to transition to a low carbon economy.

To accomplish this Calthorpe synthesizes thirty years of experience, starting with his ground breaking work in sustainable community design in the 1980s following through to his current leadership in transit-oriented design, regional planning, and land use policy. Peter Calthorpe shows us what is possible using real world examples of innovative design strategies and forward-thinking policies that are already changing the way we live.

This provocative and engaging work emerges from Calthorpe’s belief that, just as the last fifty years produced massive changes in our culture, economy and environment, the next fifty will generate changes of an even more profound nature. The book, enhanced by its superb four-color graphics, is a call to action and a road map for moving forward.

“Calthorpe points out that urbanism is often left off the list of climate solutions, but in order to confront global warming, we have to look beyond clean tech and examine where we live and how we design our communities. This book offers a blueprint for transforming our cities and towns into low-carbon centers of vibrant public life.” - Frances Beinecke President, Natural Resources Defense Council

How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken. By Alex Marshall

Marshall criticizes New Urbanism for being more about style than substance, but he acknowledges that the more it recognizes the hard truths of regional planning, the more it can become a positive force. A journalist by trade, Marshall writes with wit, reason, and style, effectively driving home his well-researched premise that cities exist and evolve based on transportation systems, the building of wealth, and government guidance or misguidance. He offers few solutions to current urban problems, setting his sights on enlightening the reader about why and how cities evolve. Marshall cites the human craving for simple solutions to complex problems and makes it clear that when people come together to plan a regional city consciously, as they have in Portland, OR, difficult choices must be made. [...] How Cities Work is very strongly recommended for both academic and public libraries as an excellent resource on the history and future of American cities. - Library Journal

ISBN-13: 978-0292752405

1688. The First Modern Revolution. By Steve Pincus

For two hundred years historians have viewed England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution—bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. In this brilliant new interpretation Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view.

By expanding the interpretive lens to include a broader geographical and chronological frame, Pincus demonstrates that England’s revolution was a European event, that it took place over a number of years, not months, and that it had repercussions in India, North America, the West Indies, and throughout continental Europe. His rich historical narrative, based on masses of new archival research, traces the transformation of English foreign policy, religious culture, and political economy that, he argues, was the intended consequence of the revolutionaries of 1688–1689.

James II developed a modernization program that emphasized centralized control, repression of dissidents, and territorial empire. The revolutionaries, by contrast, took advantage of the new economic possibilities to create a bureaucratic but participatory state. The postrevolutionary English state emphasized its ideological break with the past and envisioned itself as continuing to evolve. All of this, argues Pincus, makes the Glorious Revolution—not the French Revolution—the first truly modern revolution. This wide-ranging book reenvisions the nature of the Glorious Revolution and of revolutions in general, the causes and consequences of commercialization, the nature of liberalism, and ultimately the origins and contours of modernity itself.

Steve Pincus is professor of history at Yale University.

“Mr. Pincus’s cogently argued account of what really happened during England’s revolution destroys many comforting notions that have prevailed for more than 200 years…. It leaves the reader with something much more exciting: a new understanding of the origins of the modern, liberal state.” - Economist

"A masterful reassessment of the received wisdom of what we understand of modern British history and the concept of revolution. This is a well-researched, well-written and important book." — British Heritage

Independent Publishers Book Awards
MacMillan Center Gustav Ranis International Book Prize
New England Book Festival Honorable Mention
American Historical Association Morris D. Forkosch Prize

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism. By George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller

The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and put forward a bold new vision that will transform economics and restore prosperity.

Akerlof and Shiller reassert the necessity of an active government role in economic policymaking by recovering the idea of animal spirits, a term John Maynard Keynes used to describe the gloom and despondence that led to the Great Depression and the changing psychology that accompanied recovery. Like Keynes, Akerlof and Shiller know that managing these animal spirits requires the steady hand of government--simply allowing markets to work won't do it. In rebuilding the case for a more robust, behaviorally informed Keynesianism, they detail the most pervasive effects of animal spirits in contemporary economic life--such as confidence, fear, bad faith, corruption, a concern for fairness, and the stories we tell ourselves about our economic fortunes--and show how Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and the rational expectations revolution failed to account for them.

Animal Spirits offers a road map for reversing the financial misfortunes besetting us today. Read it and learn how leaders can channel animal spirits - the powerful forces of human psychology that are afoot in the world economy today.

"[T]his book is rather more than the usual lament about the failings of economics. Its authors are two of the discipline's leading lights. . . . Most of the time, the unrealistic assumption of rationality serves economists fairly well. They should, however, be more prepared to depart from it, especially in times like these--even if that makes behaviour more difficult to describe in elegant equations. Messrs Akerlof and Shiller have therefore done their profession a service."--The Economist

"An influential Democrat who was also one of the world's top-ten, highest-paid hedge fund managers last year thinks he knows which book is at the top of the White House reading list this spring: Animal Spirits, the powerful new blast of behavioural economics from Nobel prize-winner George Akerlof and Yale economist Robert Shiller."--Financial Times

"Akerlof and Shiller are the first to try to rework economic theory for our times. The effort itself makes their book a milestone. . . . And their book takes their case not just to economists, but also to the general reader. It is short (176 pages of text) and easy enough for laymen to understand."--Louis Uchitelle, New York Times Book Review

getAbstract International Book Award
TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security
Finance Book of the Year CBN (China Business News)
Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year (Shortlisted)
Financial Times (FT.com) listed "Books of the Year"


На русском языке: Spiritus Аnimalis, или Как человеческая психология управляет экономикой и почему это важно для мирового капитализма
Юнайтед Пресс, 2011 г.
ISBN 978-5-904522-87-2

Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s. By Marion Fourcade

Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform science, differs in important ways among these three countries. Drawing on in-depth interviews with economists, institutional analysis, and a wealth of scholarly evidence, Marion Fourcade traces the history of economics in each country from the late nineteenth century to the present, demonstrating how each political, cultural, and institutional context gave rise to a distinct professional and disciplinary configuration. She argues that because the substance of political life varied from country to country, people's experience and understanding of the economy, and their political and intellectual battles over it, crystallized in different ways--through scientific and mercantile professionalism in the United States, public-minded elitism in Britain, and statist divisions in France. Fourcade moves past old debates about the relationship between culture and institutions in the production of expert knowledge to show that scientific and practical claims over the economy in these three societies arose from different elites with different intellectual orientations, institutional entanglements, and social purposes.

Marion Fourcade is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Fourcade has produced a remarkable book. . . . Her 52-page bibliography should be evidence enough of the remarkable effort that went into this book." - M. Perelman, Choice

"In-depth and well-informed comparative analyses of cross-country differences in the practice and conceptualization of economics are few in number; hence, Fourcade's book is a welcome and valuable addition to the literature. Certainly it is an impressive product for a young scholar." - Bruce E. Kaufman, Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal

Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association
Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology
CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles
Robert K. Merton Book Award for Best Book in the Science, Knowledge and Technology
Barrington Moore Award for Best Book in the Comparative and Historical Sociology

Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India . By Joseph Lelyveld

A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and rural poor.
Pulitzer Prize–winner Joseph Lelyveld shows in vivid, unmatched detail how Gandhi’s sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on another subcontinent—during two decades in South Africa—and then tested by an India that quickly learned to revere him as a Mahatma, or “Great Soul,” while following him only a small part of the way to the social transformation he envisioned. The man himself emerges as one of history’s most remarkable self-creations, a prosperous lawyer who became an ascetic in a loincloth wholly dedicated to political and social action. Lelyveld leads us step-by-step through the heroic—and tragic—last months of this selfless leader’s long campaign when his nonviolent efforts culminated in the partition of India, the creation of Pakistan, and a bloodbath of ethnic cleansing that ended only with his own assassination.
India and its politicians were ready to place Gandhi on a pedestal as “Father of the Nation” but were less inclined to embrace his teachings. Muslim support, crucial in his rise to leadership, soon waned, and the oppressed untouchables—for whom Gandhi spoke to Hindus as a whole—produced their own leaders.
Here is a vital, brilliant reconsideration of Gandhi’s extraordinary struggles on two continents, of his fierce but, finally, unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy, which more than six decades after his death still ensures his place as India’s social conscience—and not just India’s.

“Great Soul is a noteworthy book, vivid, nuanced and clear-eyed . . . Lelyveld brings to his subject a reporter’s healthy skepticism and an old India hand’s stubborn fascination with the subcontinent and its people.” - Geoffrey C. Ward, The New York Times Book Review
“Thorough . . . The author painstakingly examines the primary sources in Gandhi’s life to provide a rich, multilayered portrait of the evolution of his thought and action—no easy feat, since the Mahatma’s philosophy changed constantly . . . An impassioned, carefully executed work of reseach.” – Starred review, Kirkus
“Rigorous . . . Unexpected . . . Lelyveld pairs a sympathetic but critical analysis of Gandhi’s politics with a vivid portrait of the Mahatma’s charismatic strangeness . . . A stirring, evenhanded account that relates the failure of Gandhi’s politics of saintliness while attesting to its enduring power.” - Publishers Weekly

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. By Francis Fukuyama

Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their citizens. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today’s developing countries—with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.

In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama, author of the bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, provides a sweeping account of how today’s basic political institutions developed. The first of a major two-volume work begins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning of a rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution.

Drawing on a vast body of knowledge—history, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economics—Fukuyama has produced a brilliant, provocative work that offers fresh insights on the origins of democratic societies and raises essential questions about the nature of politics.

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King Hussein of Jordan. A Political Life. By Nigel Ashton

A towering figure in the history of Jordan, King Hussein reigned for nearly half a century, from his grandfather’s assassination in 1953 to his own death in 1999. In this fascinating biography, Nigel Ashton recounts the eventful life of the king who not only survived but flourished amidst crisis after crisis as ruler of a poor desert nation surrounded by powerful and hostile neighbors. Hussein skillfully navigated complicated relationships with the British, his fellow Arab leaders, the new bordering state of Israel, masses of dispossessed Palestinians within his kingdom, every U.S. president from Eisenhower to Clinton, and every British prime minister from Churchill to Blair. This book illuminates the private man, his key relationships, and his achievements and disappointments as a central player in the tough world of Middle Eastern politics.

Ashton has had unique access to King Hussein’s private papers, including his secret correspondence with U.S., British, and Israeli leaders, and he has also conducted numerous interviews with members of Hussein’s circle and immediate family. The resulting book brings new depth to our understanding of the popular and canny king while also providing new information about the wars of 1967 and 1973, President Reagan’s role in the Iran-Contra affair, the evolution of the Middle East peace process, and much more.

Nigel Ashton is senior lecturer, Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science.

"Excellent. . . . Ashton is very interesting on Hussein''s relations with Iraq and the wider Arab world." - New York Times

In this respectful and measured scholarly evaluation, Ashton (Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War ) builds on unprecedented access to the late king's entire correspondence and more than two dozen interviews to lend valuable insight into how Hussein's shrewdness and empathy kept him politically (and literally) alive as well as casting light on many a foreign policy enigma—notably a confirmation that Ronald Regan personally authorized what became the Iran-Contra scandal. While Hussein's uneasy alliance with the socialist brand of Arab nationalism under Egypt's Nasser led him into “the greatest calamity of his reign,” the 1967 Six-Day War with Israel, he remained “ever alert to the shifting power dynamics of the Arab world,” often maintaining a precarious balance between the Western powers, the Arab states and Israelwhile wielding influence disproportionate to Jordan's relatively modest assets. Ashton reveals Hussein's longstanding covert contact with Israel and his clandestine communications with Israelis in the immediate aftermath of the 1967 warto suggest the possibilities and missed opportunities (including by the U.S.) for a peaceful settlement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict—just one reason this book feels so timely and relevant. - Publishers Weekly

Планировка города. Ле Корбюзье

Ценная по материалу и легко, нестандартно написанная работа известного французского архитектора-авангардиста, дизайнера, теоретика архитектуры.

Выступая против эклектизма, украшательства, маскирующего конструкцию здания, Ле К. видел в современной технике и серийности индустриального строительства основу для обновления архитектурного языка, а в выявлении функционально оправданной структуры сооружения — богатые эстетические возможности. Рассматривая гармонию создаваемой человеком искусственной среды как определяющий фактор бытия, он разделял утопические надежды на преобразование общества с помощью архитектуры, Главные темы творчества Ле К. 20—30-х гг. — градостроительство, жилище и большие общественные здания. Новизна архитектурных предложений Ле К. заключалась в полном пересмотре проблемы массового жилища на основании тщательного анализа современного быта: в реорганизации функций жилища (рациональном сокращении, слиянии старых, выявлении новых, отвечающих не только насущным бытовым процессам, но и духовным запросам человека), в технологически детально разработанном, создающем максимум удобств использовании площади квартиры при её компактной планировке и расчёте на развитие коллективного обслуживания, в ориентации на индустриальное строительство и в градостроительном обеспечении связи отдельного жилого дома с окружающей территорией.

Градостроительные проекты Ле К., одного из лидеров Урбанизма, в 20—30-е гг. развивали идею «вертикального» города-сада с высокой плотностью населения и большими озеленёнными пространствами, дифференциацией путей движения пешеходов и транспорта, разделением зон жилья, деловой активности и промышленности (проект города на 3 млн. жителей, 1922; «план Вуазен» — план реконструкции Парижа, 1925; планы городов Буэнос-Айреса, 1930, Алжира, 1930—39, Антверпена, 1932, Немура, Алжир, 1934; ни один из проектов не осуществлен). В большом цикле работ в Индии (1950—57) Ле К. осуществляет некоторые свои градостроительные идеи - генеральный план города и ансамбль правительственных зданий в Чандигархе.