Immerse yourself in the sophisticated world of Edith Wharton with "The Complete Works of Edith Wharton" 〓〓. This remarkable collection includes all the novels, short stories, and essays penned by the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature 〓. Wharton's works masterfully capture the intricacies of hig...

This book offers a new critical intervention into the studies of the paradox of Chinese socialism. Centering on the “unremodable” Shanghai bourgeoisie and middle class, the book brilliantly discovers Chinese society's persistent aspiration to bourgeois lifestyle and remarkable resistance to socialist ideology from t...

Global history has come of age but has had little impact on the historiography of early modern Germany. This volume seeks to bring a global perspective to the history of Central Europe by addressing understudied global and colonial entanglements. Exploring the impact of these interactions on court life and home town...

Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) was born into an illustrious lineage of poets just as Japan’s ancien régime was ceding authority to a new political order dominated by military power. Overcoming personal and political setbacks, Teika and his allies championed a new style of poetry that managed to innovate conceptually ...

Postal Intelligence connects and situates histories of the post and government intelligence alongside print technology and state power in the wider context of the early modern communications revolution. In the sixteenth century, postal services became central to domestic governance and foreign policy enterprises, ex...

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I sitt förord skriver Ragnar Östberg helt ödmjukt: "Det är icke omöjligt; att dessa anteckningar kunna väcka ett visst intresse, ackompanjerade som de äro av bilder, vilka ofta tillåta läsaren att bortse från texten. Denna börjar och slutar med en arkitektsspurt. Mellan dessa båda moment försiggå de händelser inom a...

The Nazis and their collaborators buried over 100,000 victims at Babyn Yar, a ravine in modern-day Ukraine. Most of the individuals were Jewish, making this area one of the most infamous mass murder sites in history. The Ravine of Memory starts when the travesty ends, telling the story of the ravine’s memory and for...

「歐盟必須幫助烏克蘭，卻不能打敗俄羅斯。」 　　 歐洲的未來，將變成什麼模樣？ 最受推崇的歷史評論家約翰．赫斯特給了終極答案（新増新版序）。 　　 出版至今，連續10年，年年再版， 景美女中、西松高中、臺北商業大學……最多國中、高中和大學的指定參考書， 彌補條列式資料陳述的不足，把過往強記死背的歷史來龍去脈，一次補齊！ 　　 時...

從「成為臺灣人」到「身為臺灣人」，在殖民城市基隆喚醒被隱埋的在地認同與民族意識。 臺灣接連受到清朝,日本和中國政府統治，每一個政權都對這座島嶼和居民的現代化,文明開化有各自的規劃藍圖，也根本上影響1880年代到1950年代臺灣人意識的形成。 從清治末期到戰後初期，基隆城一直有著無限可能，作為實體和想像邊境的一部分，在帝國和民族...

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...

Ichetucknee Springs, a north Florida gem , remains a breathtaking natural wonder. For centuries, folks have enjoyed the crystal clear and cooling depths of the eight-named springs and the river formed from the first magnitude flow of those springs. Enjoy this look at the history and culture filled with stories from ...

“I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”ーDaniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow “I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A tru...

Brazil owes a significant portion of its social and cultural heritage of several West and Central African cultures. Due to his intensive knowledge of the African culture renown ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik has studied the presence of African culture phenomena in several research trips in Brazil. His insights and ...

A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field “A whistle-stop introduction to the great works and thinkers of each age, this is a clear and accessible primer.”ーLaura Garmeson, Financial Times What causes ...

黃仁宇重磅著作《中國大歷史》，全新直排校訂，暢銷10萬本新版！ 黃仁宇：我寫的歷史是從技術的角度看歷史，不是從道徳的角度檢討歷史。 這並不是說道徳不重要，而是新社會的道徳要靠社會的結構而決定其內涵。 中國過去一百五十年內經過人類歷史上規模最大的一次革命，從一個閉關自守中世紀的國家蛻變而為一個現代國家，影響到十億人口的思想...