North Korea may be known as the world's most secluded society, but it too has witnessed the rapid rise of new media technologies in the new millennium, including the introduction of a 3G cell phone network in 2008. In 2009, there were only 70,000 cell phones in North Korea. That number has grown tremendously in just...

A new study of a critical period in the history of the British Army. 'An impressively detailed chronicle by an analyst well up to the task. Read it and weep.' Allan Mallinson, The Spectator The last half century has seen society, technology, the character of conflict and the British Army itself all change greatly. F...

Cyrus the Great: Conqueror, Liberator, Lawgiver is a clear and compelling life of the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, told in twenty flowing chapters that unite storytelling with careful history. Beginning with Cyrus's foretold birth and humble upbringing in Anshan, the book follows his rise against the Medes, his...

What if the key to understanding freedom, power, and the very shape of a nation was hidden in a series of brilliant essays? 〓〓 In The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay outline one of the most important political arguments in world historyーexplaining, defending, and defining the pr...

What if you could win every battleーon the battlefield, in business, and in lifeーthrough strategy, not force? 〓 For over two millennia, The Art of War has shaped leaders, warriors, thinkers, and innovators. Sun Tzu's teachings reveal how victory depends not on strength alone, but on clarity of mind, preparation, t...

What if your entire lifeーyour freedom, identity, and dignityーwere stolen in an instant? 〓 In Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup delivers one of the most heartbreaking and powerful true stories ever written. Born a free Black man in New York, Northup was kidnapped, betrayed, and sold into slavery, forced to end...

The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective offers a one-stop reference that distills and summarizes the recent scholarship on economic expectations. Investigating the dynamics, effects, and determinants of economic expectations from a global perspective since the seventeenth century, t...

During the 1960s and 1970s, the images of two men came to dominate the iconography of left-wing movements: Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The story of the revolution these two men led in Cuba became a fable that drove and encouraged other revolutionary movements around the world. The Cuban Revolution is certainly ast...

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an ol...

《南薫殿歷代帝后圖像》歷朝皆藏於宮中，所繪歷代帝后朝服像，無論立像、坐像、半身像，在形貌、服飾的配件，或龍椅、地毯等紋飾等，描繪真實，筆法工整精細，設色富麗，具有極高的藝術造詣，更是研究歷史與服飾史珍貴的圖像資料。

香港向來被譽為「美食之都」，百多年來各式各樣、不同層次的佳餚美食，甚至珍饈百味、西洋食品等，都能夠在香港品嚐到。由大小茶樓、小館、大牌檔的點心、小菜、粥粉麵飯，燒臘店的「斬料」燒味，餅店的新鮮麵包餅食，茶室的西式食物、飲料、雪糕，街邊小販的小食及糖水，私房菜館的蛇羹、香肉，酒家的「滿漢全席」，以至米舖、茶葉莊、酒莊...

Henry Ford once announced to a young schoolboy that it was he who had invented the modern age. Born on a farm in rural Michigan three weeks after the battle of Gettysburg, Ford hated everything about farming as soon as he could understand what it was about. So he turned his attention to the farm machinery that made ...

⚔️ A legendary swordsman. A lifetime of battles. A timeless guide to victory. In The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi, the greatest samurai of Japan's feudal era, distills the wisdom gained from more than sixty undefeated duels into a powerful manual on strategy, discipline, and the mastery of one's mind. Divide...

葛兆光教授十年前開始推動「從周邊看中國」研究計劃，把日本、韓國、越南等地保存的有關中國史資料作為「新材料」，試圖提供重新認識東亞和中國的多重視角與立場。為此，葛教授陸續出版了《宅茲中國：重建有關「中國」的歷史論述》、《何為中國？ー疆域、民族、文化與歷史》等著作，在國際學界受到廣泛關注。本書是葛兆光教授有關東亞與中國...

Deep Fakes: A Critical Lexicon for Digital Museology is an illustrated monograph articulated through a comprehensive lexicon of key concepts in next-generation museology. Each of the book’s ten chapters explores specific terms in the lexicon, further interpreted through installations from the 2021 exhibition Deep Fa...

Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ethno-nationalist country. Why do people want to come to Japan? Where do immigrants with various resources and demograp...