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...

This book examines how the Taliban were able to regain power in Afghanistan in 2021, some 20 years after the US intervention. The volume presents an analysis of the factors that contributed to the Taliban’s ability to seize power following the withdrawal of the international coalition in August 2021, marking the end...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

戰爭會結束，但正義不一定會到來 為何二戰後東亞無法如歐洲那般實現和解？ 為何戰犯審判未能解決歷史創傷，反而加深了各國間的敵對情緒？ ◎《從人到鬼，從鬼到人：日本戰犯與中國的審判》作者最新力作。 ◎劍橋東亞系教授、英國國家學術院院士，從散布日、中、臺、港等地檔案重建東亞歷史記憶與裂痕。 ◎本書特別收錄臺灣版獨家作者序「臺灣戰...

An untold story of idealism, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes American–Japanese contacts in World War II. In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater’s bloodiest battles, the United States and Japan pulled off a diplomatic coupー the exchange of civilians caught on the wrong side of the battlefield after ...

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...

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 ...

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-...

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.

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...

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...

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...