A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Budapest, autumn 1943. Four years into the war, Hungary is allied with Nazi Germany and the Hungarian capital is the Casablanca of central Europe. The city swirls with intrigue and betrayal, home to spies and agents of every kind. But Budapest remains at peace, an oasis in the midst ...

追隨中世紀最偉大的旅行家伊本．巴圖塔的足跡 探索香料、路上絲路交會處斯里蘭卡的神秘面紗 在西方殖民者踏足前，這裡已經有香料的存在和交易 ｜2021斯里蘭卡國家人文類文學獎 ｜2020 格拉蒂恩獎（Gratiaen Prize）入選名單 李易安｜文字工作者 張育軒｜說說伊朗創辦人ーー推薦 白人尚未殖民進入的斯里蘭卡 為什麼伊本．巴圖塔到這裡？ 「這...

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...

Respectability on the Line offers a social and cultural history of railway labor in Britain and colonial India from the 1840s through World War I. The book treats the railway industry as a microcosm through which to study the history of capitalism in the liberal imperial era. Using company records, Mattie Armstrong-...

小時代是指十七世紀而言，那是一個有趣，並且充滿各種可能性的時期。以現代物質文化研究來看，既可從東西交流的角度，一窺當時探險家跋山涉水開拓航道的故事，也能從江南視線瞭解文人世家看似平淡，其實分外講究質感，別有一番趣味的日常。此次通過十七世紀的小資文青文震亨（1586-1645）書寫《長物志》歸類而出的「書畫」和「器具」兩個章節...

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...

This pioneering volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights, from the Middle Ages to the present. It debunks the myth that social rights are 'second-generation rights' – rights that appeared after World War II as additions to a rights corpus stretching back to the Enlightenment. Not only do social ri...

How does emotion shape the landscape of public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach a post-Mao cultural controversy. As it entered a period of market reform, China did not turn away from revolutionary sentiments. Rather, the post-Mao period ex...

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...

The first edited volume solely dedicated to the philosophy of Adriana Cavaero. Adriana Cavarero has been, and continues to be, one of the most innovative and influential voices in Italian political and feminist thought of the last forty years. Known widely for her challenges to the male-dominated canon of political ...

作者透過中朝文人書寫與官方史料，探討漢語譯官在中朝關係中擔任的文化代理人的角色，闡明他們的活動如何建構與士大夫不一樣的世界觀，從而改變兩國的關係以及文化交流互動的結果，並藉此提出「東亞世界網絡」如何交織出新的東亞研究意識。 朝鮮漢語譯官的語文、語義翻譯，連繫了中國和朝鮮兩端，讓我們看到細節中攤開的真相。他們既是知識的...

Title: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Voice for the Voiceless Author: Millard Foulk Are you ready to embark on a captivating journey through the life and legacy of one of the most influential voices in contemporary politics? Prepare to be inspired as you delve into the pages of "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Voice for the Vo...

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...

Ai Hisano exposes how corporations, the American government, and consumers shaped the colors of what we eat and even the colors of what we consider “natural,” “fresh,” and “wholesome.” The yellow of margarine, the red of meat, the bright orange of “natural” orangesーwe live in the modern world of the senses created ...

Virtually unknown outside of her adopted hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Jane Edna Hunter was one of the most influential African American social workers and progressive activists of the early to mid-twentieth century. In her autobiography A Nickel and a Prayer, Hunter presents an enlightening two-part narrative that r...

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...