Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The boo...

What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago's iconic Maxwell Street Market area. Maxwell Street was for decades a place where people from all corners of the city mingled to buy and sell goods, play and listen...

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 edited volume offers a detailed analysis of Finland’s transformation from neutrality to a pivotal NATO member following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. With contributions from scholars and military practitioners, the volume fills a critical gap in the literature by focusing on Finland’s changing security ...

How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP), this book analyzes how various historians have managed “the personal” and their scholarship. It shows how influences on history su...

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 ...

Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras, have profoundly sha...

Este primer volumen, recorre los años previos al triunfo de Salvador Allende. "Nos proponemos intentar restituir este proceso histórico comenzando por describir los hechos y relacionarlos entre sí, para comprender por qué las cosas sucedieron así.

En 1806, à vingt-six ans, Clausewitz, officier prussien, assista à la défaite d’Iéna. Il tira de cette expérience l’idée maîtresse de son traité De la guerre (1832), dont il n’acheva que le livre I : « La guerre est un acte de violence à l’emploi de laquelle il n’existe pas de limites. » Pour Clausewitz, en effet, l...

In The Sovereign Trickster Vicente L. Rafael offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Rafael weaves together topics ranging from the drug war, policing, and extraj...

本書由1979年李約瑟博士主講「錢賓四先生學術文化講座」的講稿輯錄而成。本書共分五章，除探索古代科學技術發展的概況和特點外，亦介紹了道家煉丹術的發展及其與火藥、火器、醫藥等發展的聯繫。此外，作者也試圖依據生物化學來解釋針灸療法，並對比了古代中國與歐洲文明中關於時間與變化概念的看法，從而透視其對彼此科學發展的影響。 李約瑟...

This expanded and revised sixth edition of The Geography of Transport Systems provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application. It explores the spatial aspects of transportation and focuses on how the mobility of passengers and...

一艘艘木筏顺流而下，将长江中上游的木材运送到下游城镇。林农、地主、伐木工、船工、牙行、钱庄、榷关，以及商帮与行会，组成了一个跨区域的庞大市场……通过木材的贸易与再生，森林仿佛“流动”起来，满足了整个清代中国的房屋、桥梁、舟车建造等需求。 本书讲述了这个庞大的市场如何运作，揭示了清代森林可持续发展的奥秘。国家与市场如何协调...

臺灣不是世界之外， 而是世界發生的地方！ 一部從臺灣出發的全球史，看見世界如何與這座島嶼交織。 世界史不只發生在遠方，臺灣本身就是世界史的現場。 《此地即世界》帶領讀者回到臺灣的街道、港口、山脈與寺廟ーー從這些看似尋常的地方，打開一條條通向世界的隱藏航線。讓你發現，就在你熟悉的地方，發生過世界歷史。 本書選擇二十個地點，...

The US-led war in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 was one of the most controversial wars in recent history. The invasion of Iraq was justified by claims that the regime of Saddam Hussein had links with terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and possessed weapons of mass destruction that might be used in an attack on another count...

In a living body, a variety of molecules are working in a concerted manner to maintain its life, and to carry forward the genetic information from generation to generation. A key word to understand such processes is "water," which plays an essential role in life phenomena. This book sheds light on life phenomena, wh...