This book analyses how public toilets were provided by the government and local business in Hong Kong between the 1860s and 1930s through a process that was embedded in class and racial politics. Addressing public toilet provision from a political economy perspective, it focuses on the interplay of the cross-border ...

Le "système français" mis en place au lendemain de la Révolution tend à marginaliser la fille publique et à l’enfermer dans une série de lieux clos (maison de tolérance, hôpital, prison, établissement de relèvement), invisibles de l’extérieur mais totalement transparents au regard policier. Il se révélera vite n’êtr...

**"Though the book was first published in German in 1988, this English version includes many revisions and updates and will be the definitive English-language study of the Avar empire for years to come. It will be invaluable for those interested in medieval history or in the impact of nomadic steppe empires on seden...

A panoramic history of Japan’s iconic mountain from the Ice Age to the present Mount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image is a history filled with conflict and upheaval. Violent eruptions across the centuries wrought havoc and instill...

Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction “If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.” **ーCombahee River Collective Statement The Combahee River Collective**, a pathbreaking group of radical Black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to de...

Par sa thèse sur "La crise rurale en Ile-de-France", parue en 1974, Jean Jacquart est devenu l'un des spécialistes européens de l'histoire rurale. L'ensemble des articles réunis dans la première partie : L'agriculture et les ruraux, témoigne de sa quête méthodologique, de la classique mise à jour des indicateurs con...

｜終戰80周年特別企劃｜ 全島疏開！美軍空襲台灣真實圖錄 精選爆擊寫真全彩上色，還原戰火下的島嶼地景 彩繪台灣大空襲，專家歷史上色，如臨現場 太平洋戰爭尾聲，日本軍駐台部隊「通稱號」完整收錄 睽違十年，軍事文物收藏家甘記豪繼《米機襲來》後，再度推出重磅力作。全新收藏近120幅美軍轟炸台灣的原始寫真，更有多幅是首次公開的珍貴畫...

Was Aleister Crowley a British spy? A documented investigation into occultism, espionage, and twentieth-century intelligence. Secret Agent 666 by historian Richard B. Spence examines the long-debated claim that occultist Aleister Crowley operated as an intelligence asset during the first half of the twentieth centur...

A highly illustrated history of the Cold War operations of the submarines of the Royal Navy from 1948 to 1990. The Cold War was a period of intense activity for submarines of the Royal Navy, with many hair-raising incidents involving Soviet vessels. They were engaged in frequent hazardous surveillance patrols inves...

This book is a work of British diplomatic history that illuminates how Britain's China officials grappled with China's changing position in international affairs during the 20th century. Arguing that the idea of a 'rising China' was recognised by these officials as early as the 1920s, and that they actively took ste...

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is heralded as the ultimate fifth-generation fighter, merging advanced engineering with multinational collaboration. Developed during a time of military reorganization and technological mergers, it integrates the best features of previous generations into a versatile platform fo...

L'ouvrage de référence sur les diplomates qui ont changé le monde. À travers une vingtaine de portraits biographiques de diplomates cardinaux, l'équipe réunie autour d'Hubert Védrine plonge dans l'histoire mondiale de la diplomatie des origines à nos jours. Écrits par des esprits d'élite – ambassadeurs, historiens e...

For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville’s writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically significant about his work and why philosophers are so attracted to Melville in particular. This volume addresses this silence throu...

A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe Mathematics is fundamental to our daily lives. Science, computing, economicsーall aspects of modern life rely on some kind of maths. But how did our ancestors think about numbers? How did they use mathematics to explain and understa...

了解臺灣的歷史，必須「從頭講起」，從頭了解起，我們的視野拉長、拉廣了，然後當我們回頭看這個島嶼的歷史，才能更真切地感受到它的獨特，進而珍惜它的多樣性。 　　歷史需要的不是記誦，而是思考和理解。記誦的歷史，考完就忘記了，自己思考和理解過的歷史，成為你對過去的認識，也會幫助你了解現在、面對未來。 ーー作者 周婉窈 　　歷史...

This book covers many topics that are crucial to military planning but often receive only passing mention in histories or briefings. Collins, a former Army officer, stresses land geography, but he does not stint oceans, the atmosphere, or interplanetary space. His discussions of urban areas are too brief, given the ...