INSTАNT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It is one of the best nаrrаtive histories I’ve reаd.” ーThe Wаll Street Journаl Nаmed а Most Аnticipаted Book by New York Times Books Review, TIME, Wаshington Post, Аssociаted Press, Town & Country, New York Post, аnd more From the bestselling аuthor of Too Big to Fаil, “the defini...

A Silent Revolution? explores how urban women managed wealth at a time when they were thought to have little independence - including economic - and shows that women were in fact important players in the world of capital. Peter Baskerville situates women in their immediate gendered and familial environments as well ...

Uncovering a series of landmark but often overlooked extradition cases between China and foreign powers from the 1860s to the 1920s, this study challenges the prevailing conception that political crimes in China were solely a domestic phenomenon. Extradition and extraterritoriality played an important role in shapin...

Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance. Roberta Magnusson e...

在《大交流：伍秉鑑的怡和行與十九世紀的全球貿易》中，王迪安通過清代十三行行商伍秉鑑的視角，探討了廣州體制下的貿易網絡如何塑造現代商業世界。當時，伍秉鑑的貿易網絡和金融聯繫從中國延伸至印度、美國和英國。這一時期的中國商人往往被視為西方重商主義崛起與中國抑商傳統觀念的受害者，但伍秉鑑並非如此。他早在西方世界秩序確立前的...

Qui sont les montagnards, les septembriseurs et les chouans ? Que symbolisent la cocarde, le bonnet rouge et l’arbre de la liberté ? Quel rôle jouèrent le Tribunal révolutionnaire, le Panthéon ou encore les clubs ? Quantité de mots apparaissent ou se transforment pendant la Révolution française ; ils disent les espo...

A follow-up to the author's highly regarded history of British 'Town' class cruisers, this book takes the same approach, combining coverage of the development, design details and career highlights of the original class as well as the Uganda, Minotaur and Tiger designs that were derived from them. Often called the 'C...

The field of employment law used to be called "master-servant law." Even if this term has fallen out of favor, a central truth has not changed: modern employment law still draws on centuries-old ideas about the rights and obligations of workers. In The Master-Servant Doctrine, Elizabeth Chika Tippett combines histor...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. “Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”ーThe Economist “This deepl...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "A remarkable book . . . an important bookーone that challenges, stimulates and entertains. Anyone who does not believe there are lessons to be learned from history should start right here."ー The Economist Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding...

In putting extraterritoriality into practice in the treaty ports, the British state did not simply withdraw rights from the Chinese state; it inhabited the space made by extraterritoriality by building institutions and engaging in practices which had consequences for the development of the treaty ports, and which ne...

In recent decades, scholars have uncovered the vital contributions made by non-elite figures, including women, artisans, and indigenous peoples, to the development of early modern natural philosophy. This Palgrave Pivot argues that children, too, quite literally played a decisive role in seventeenth-century experime...

“One of the purest tellings of a combat Marine’s experience in warfighting I have ever read. This story strikes every emotion.” ー PAUL LONGGREAR, Colonel ret. Army Special Forces, With the Marines at the Battle for Sangin is a battle-intensive and deeply personal war memoir following a small Marine quick infantry d...

Diaspora transformed the urban terrain of colonial societies, creating polyglot worlds out of neighborhoods, workplaces, recreational clubs, and public spheres. It was within these spaces that communities reimagined and reshaped their public identities vis-à-vis emerging government policies and perceptions from othe...

***New York Times Bestseller* A Book of the Year According to Financial Times and Sunday Times** Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year From an indispensable voice on China comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress For close to a decade, Dan Wang has been o...

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