Weaving a critique of major power intervention into political history, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Cambodia from 1953 to the present. Since gaining its independence in 1953, Cambodia has been treated as a pawn by more powerful countries. China, Vietnam, the United Nations, and especially the Unite...

《耶路撒冷三千年》暢銷書作者、劍橋大學歷史學博士 賽門・蒙提費歐里 Simon Sebag Montefiore 開創歷史書寫新局面，又一史詩巨作 一部與眾不同，從「家族」角度詮釋的全新世界史 權力的世襲從未真正消失 只是換了形式──繼續存在 Amazon、Goodreads逾1000名讀者高星評分・售出十一國版權 紐約時報 暢銷書｜紐約客・經濟學人・泰晤士報・科克...

This book introduces readers to the rich and diverse experiences of women across the African continent, covering their socio-cultural, political, and economic realities from the precolonial era right up to the modern day. In many precolonial African societies, women were empowered and considered to be important part...

It is often assumed that cosmopolitan thinkers since the Renaissance have simply adopted and refined concepts from classical antiquity. This study argues that modern European cosmopolitanism should be perceived as a unique phenomenon, distinct from Greek and Roman forms of cosmopolitan thinking. One key feature is i...

**#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...

動盪頻仍的年代「新冷戰」成形，印太地區急速升溫。 在這場如同巨型拼圖的世局當中，本書為讀者補上最後一片， 看似朦朧未明的──共產主義的落日餘暉。 新秩序已然成形，出於舊秩序的歷史經驗，是否仍有效ーー能反映當下世界局勢？ 透過回顧當代最具代表性的共產政體，注視集權國家集團如何形成、因何散去？ ーー此問題可以關乎一國存亡，也關...

The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia serves as a guide to the complex and often contradictory concept of nostalgia, as well as the field of “nostalgia studies” more broadly. Nostalgia is an area of intense interest across several disciplines as well as within society and culture more generally. This handbook brings t...

The New York Times and USA Today bestseller For sixteen years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany and at the forefront of European and international politics. In her memoir, she looks back on her life in two German statesーEast Germany until 1990, and reunified Germany thereafter. How did she, coming from the E...

Sans rien ignorer des spécificités de différentes aristocraties, anciennes et nouvelles, et des groupes qui les constituent, les auteurs de cet ouvrage tentent plutôt de les confronter, de rechercher les caractères communs qui les soudent, les différences qui les séparent et, plus encore, les fondements de clivages ...

2024年適逢鍾肇政百歲冥誕，台灣鍾肇政文學推廣協會與鍾肇政曾經任教之東吳大學日文系聯手舉辦「2024年鍾肇政百歲冥誕紀念研討會」。本書第一部份即為本場研討會之會後集結論文集，含10篇會議演講專文與6篇論文。第二部分為追思紀念文集，收錄由鍾肇政家屬、文友、學生等各界人士對鍾肇政的追思與緬懷。 【作者簡介】 編者 鍾延威，資深媒體...

The Liberal Democratic Party, which dominated postwar Japan, lost power in the early 1990s. During that same period, Japan's once stellar economy suffered stagnation and collapse. Now a well-known commentator on contemporary Japan traces the political dynamics of the country to determine the reasons for these change...

在近代中國，當新的思想典範逐漸登臨歷史舞台時，有不少帶有傳統色彩的學術論述被推擠到歷史邊緣，這些思想、論述、視野及方法，值得重新加以檢視。「執拗的低音」不是復古，而是回到各種論述的分流點去重加審視，去了解是不是有獲得一些新的學術資源的可能。

New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21**st** Century The tenth anniversary edition of the internationally bestselling phenomenon that cemented Yuval Noah Harari as one of the most prominent historians of our timeーfeaturing a new afterword from the author. One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...

In current debates, the term cosmopolitanismA” often remains quite vague and leads to sweeping generalizations. Unlike many recent publications, this book looks at the notion from a decidedly historical perspective, trying to give depth and texture to the concept.

It is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned and, in turn, influenced the lay world within its care without understanding "canon law". This book examines its development from its beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages, updating its findings in light of recent scholarly trends. This second edit...

今天，法治已經成為香港人的核心價值之一，並且以為在英國管治下，香港的言論自由與新聞自由比回歸後更有保障。作者在支持香港需要保障法治和自由的基礎下，反對這種建基於錯誤的歷史觀的說法。本書廣泛而深入地分析各種解密歷史檔案史料，質疑這一老生常談，對於英國在香港的法律制度提出新的詮釋。