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...

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...

｜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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

In the 1990s, states in what would become the eastern edge of the European Union transformed their political systems and economies, leaving state socialism behind for liberal democracies and free markets. In the ensuing decades, two shipyards that were once the pride of their cities – in Gdynia, Poland, and Pula, Cr...

Sutton E. Griggs’s first novel, originally published in 1899, paints a searing picture of the violent enforcement of disfranchisement and Jim Crow racial segregation. Based on events of the time, including US imperial policies, revolutionary movements, and racial protests, Imperium in Imperio introduces the fictiona...

This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a Black abolitionist, pastor, and community leader. Randolph’s story is unique because he was freed and relocated from Virginia to Boston, along with his entire plantation cohor...

Elleanor Eldridge, born of African and US indigenous descent in 1794, operated a lucrative domestic services business in nineteenth century Providence, Rhode Island. In defiance of her gender and racial background, she purchased land and built rental property from the wealth she gained as a business owner. In the 18...

In a series of columns published in the African American newspaper the Christian Recorder, the young, charismatic preacher Henry McNeal Turner described his experience of the Civil War, first from the perspective of a civilian observer in Washington, DC, and later, as one of the Union army’s first Black chaplains. I...

J. McHenry Jones’s Hearts of Gold is a gripping tale of post–Civil War battles against racism and systemic injustice. Originally published in 1896, this novel reveals an African American community of individuals dedicated to education, journalism, fraternal organizations, and tireless work serving the needs of those...