在中國歷史的長河之中，酒從一種飲品變成一種文化，上至政治、外交、律法，下至文學、禮俗、醫學等，都有酒的身影。 作者以小見大，用酒的角度作為出發點，探究明朝政治社會文化的發展，以酒為墨，渲染出一幅幅鮮活生動的明朝社會生活。 ▎在明朝的社會喝酒，誰說古人誠不欺我？ 在明朝買酒最怕遇到的就是買到摻水的酒，要知道明朝的奸商賣酒...

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 ...

國家人權博物館X春山 合作出版 胡淑雯．童偉格　主編 以文學靠近記憶的現場 研究轉型正義的吳乃徳教授曾提及記憶的社會化過程，以二二八事件來說，面臨兩個階段，一個是解嚴前後要求恢復記憶、挖掘真相，第二個階段則是歷史的闡釋競爭，也就是歷史的政治作用以及責任。至今，轉型正義仍處在第二階段的不斷分歧中，其工作往往經歷再一次的政治...

Essential reading for the Iran Crisis - what happens when the seas close, and oil stops flowing? 'Urgent and polemical' Financial Times 'A brilliant explainer of how the world works' Simon Kuper, author of Chums 'The real stuff of the economy - blood, dirt, oil and violence' Dan Davies, author of The Unaccountabilit...

From one of Britain's most distinguished historians and the bestselling author of Hitler, this is the definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book ...

Alfred Nobel began his career as a brilliant inventor and industrialist, but his inventionsーparticularly the creation of dynamiteーbrought him more anguish than satisfaction. Though his scientific achievements earned him fortune and fame, Nobel became deeply troubled by the destructive uses of his work. Branded the...

Pontiac's War erupted in the Great Lakes region of North America just as the French and Indian War came to a close in 1763. The French, who had initially established a European presence there, were usurped by the British, whose relations with indigenous peoples were notoriously less diplomatic and more destructive. ...

In 1940, defeat seemed inevitable. Yet from the beaches of Dunkirk emerged one of the most extraordinary rescues in military history. As German forces closed in, a hastily assembled flotilla of civilian vesselsーlater immortalized as the "Little Ships"ーcrossed the English Channel to save the British Army from annih...

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver. In the late nineteenth century, a time when Africa was being parcelled among European powers,...

〓 "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society." 〓 The Federalist Papers is one of the most influential works of political thought ever writtenーa collection of 85 essays composed by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to defend and explain the principles of the United States Const...

In the face of ruthless totalitarian rule, it is only the rare few who stand up at risk of their own life to do what is right. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of those exceptional individuals. Even on pain of death, he would not bend, he would not budgeーthis German pastor fought the Nazi regime with every fiber of his ...

The American Civil War was a long and bloody conflict whose effects are still felt today in the United States. The descendants of the men who fought in the war continue to pay the fallen their respects and remember the events of the war, the various battles, and the personalities of the many leaders involved. One of...

媲美《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》《人類大歷史》，探討人類文明的開創性巨作 不自由、不平等、國家體制是文明必然終點？ 時代百大風雲人物、《債的歷史》作者 大衛﹐格雷伯（David Graeber） ╳ 人文學科最高榮譽Albertus Magnus得主 大衛．溫格羅（David Wengrow） 攜手領航── 一場顛覆文明演進的所有假設、揭示人類全新自由的旅程 「一本顛覆傳統歷...

This book explores the intricate connections between the body and narrative across the early modern world. It examines how bodily aspects shaped the creation of stories and vice versa. The writing, telling, or interpreting of a story is inherently tied to corporeal acts and is, to varying degrees, shaped by them. Li...

With mountains of documentation, mostly from government and corporate sources, Sutton shows that Soviet military technology is heavily dependent on U.S. and allied gifts, "peaceful trade" and exchange programs. We've built for, sold or traded, or given outright to the Communists everything from copper wiring and mil...

Enter The Universe According to Peter Max. A true Pop Art iconーone of the world’s most well-loved visual artistsーPeter Max now offers us an intimate, unprecedented look at the inner workings of his imagination. Vibrantly colored artwork accompanies fifty evocative personal essays in which Max, for the first time e...