The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containm...

A comprehensively illustrated account of the Atlanta-class cruisers, warships that found a surprising key role in the Pacific War as the US Navy's superb antiaircraft warships. In the late 1930s, the US Navy created a class of small, light cruisers intended as a versatile destroyer leader. The Atlantas could provide...

　　每個事件都與中國、世界歷史對照 　　一目瞭然，給記憶一個重要的位置 　　◎ 乾乾脆脆的，把印度歷史一次給理清楚 　　印度擁有五千年的燦爛文明，梁啟超在《二十世紀太平洋歌》中，曾經將印度與中國、埃及、小亞細亞（後來人們將「小亞細亞」改為兩河文明中的巴比倫），稱為地球上古文明四國。身處太平洋彼岸的美國人威廉‧麥克高希在其...

〓 The Cambridge Modern History stands as one of the most ambitious and scholarly surveys of world history ever published. Conceived by Lord Acton and compiled by a distinguished group of historians, this monumental work presents a comprehensive exploration of political, social, religious, and intellectual developme...

Step into a world of enchantment, wit, and wonder with The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll! ✨ From the timeless adventures of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, to the whimsical poetry of The Hunting of the Snark and Jabberwocky, this collection showcases the boundless imagination and linguistic bri...

Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite the consistency of this picture, surprisingly little archaeological o...

Described as one of the most powerful leaders in Cambodian politics, he ousted French colonialism then overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime. He shaped the political and economic landscape in Cambodia using his strategies and persevered with liberating the nation despite encountering multiple assassination attempts. Sir ...

Narrative Objects is concerned with the conversations that arise when artists, scholars, and museum practitioners come together with historic objects. Its focus is a unique mammoth ivory model of yhyakh – the annual celebration of the Sakha people in the Russian Far East – which has been in the collection of the Bri...

一部横跨滿洲森林至黒海周緣，縱貫上古至現代四萬年的中亞史 ★☆★全球唯一中文版★☆★ 牛津大學出版社New Oxford World History書系作品 內亞史研究權威蔡偉傑教授翻譯、專文導讀 中亞ーー東方與西方文明的橋梁，歐洲與亞洲歷史的樞紐 這個廣袤地帶的過去，如何形塑現代世界的形成？ 　　中亞，是一個從滿洲森林延伸至黒海周緣的政治、經濟與文...

On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine. Coming after years of tensions following Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and thinly veiled direct armed support for separatists fighting in Donbass and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, observers gave Ukraine’s military little chance o...

This book presents a cultural history of modern Iran from the point of view of Shiraz, a city famous for its poetry and its traditions of scholarship. Exploring the relationship among history, poetry and politics, the book analyses how Shiraz came to be defined as the country’s cultural capital, and explains how Ira...

屬州希斯帕尼亞．收復失地運動．天主教雙王．大航海時代．異端審問制度 無敵艦隊．美西戰爭．西班牙內戰．佛朗哥政體．17個自治區．兩黨制 【本書特色】 ◎一冊認識西班牙，穿越歷史變遷，探索這片土地上各民族交融與衝突的波瀾壯闊歷程。 ◎全書依時間脈絡分成8個章節，各章均附小專欄，介紹各領域的西班牙偉人。 ◎隨主題搭配簡易的地圖、好懂...

雅集是古代文人的派對形式之一，在雅集的活動裡，主人與賓客除了享用精緻美味的佳餚，也會有吟詩、鼓琴、對弈、觀畫、品茗等助興活動，更不用說宴會上即席揮毫、題詠等具紀念性質的副產品產出。宴集上文人之間相互激盪與較勁，因此雅集亦可說是文化力的孕育搖籃。天下第一行書〈蘭亭序〉﹀即蘊生自東晉癸酉年（三五三）暮春三月的一場盛會，...

The two largest heirs to the massive Soviet tank force that faced NATO during the Cold War – Russia and Ukraine – have been fighting one another since 2014 in what has now become the largest war in Europe since 1945. Volume 5 of the War in Ukraine series examines the development of Soviet legacy MBTs by Ukraine in t...

Prolific munitions production keyed America's triumph in World War II but so did the complex economic controls needed to sustain that production. Artillery, tanks, planes, ships, trucks, and weaponry of every kind were constantly demanded by the military and readily supplied by American business. While that relation...

在共產黨史觀、國民黨史觀與台獨史觀外， 重新解讀歷史符號──「1949」 1949年10月1日中共建國，新中國建立。 1949年12月7日，國民政府遷移台灣，新台灣從此誕生。 台灣海峽兩岸人民各有他們的1949，1949年之於新中國，主要是政治的意義； 1949年之於新台彎，則是文化的意義。 1949年是台灣的年分，它賦予台灣一種歷史定位的架構。 就漢人的觀...