"North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way." ---Charles K. Armstrong, Director, ...

"A beautiful book featuring intimate portrayals of a diverse group of Guatemalan artists and their works . . . [a] compelling presentation style." ー Library Journal Against the backdrop of Guatemala, this book presents portraits of artisans working in the ancient traditions of the Maya paired with insights into the...

Winner, French Voices Award This book, a crossover hit in France, offers a fresh genealogy of our neoliberal moment. “We must adapt!” These words can be heard almost everywhere and in every aspect of our lives. Where does this widespread sense that we have fallen behind come from? How can we explain this progressive...

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...

炎熱夏天，古代女人可以穿著清涼嗎？ 明朝人竟有「男穿女裝」的叛逆潮流？ 明代衣飾和配件如何彰顯日常儀式感？ 古人婚喪嫁娶的衣著有什麼特殊規矩？ 一窺古人著裝奧祕，重溫明代衣飾風雅！ 以十二章三十個場景代入式寫法，五百多幅精美手繪圖及古畫介紹明代女性夏季著裝、男性著裝禮儀、不同身分的人正式拜訪時應穿的禮衣、出席宴會時的裝束...

Henry Ford once announced to a young schoolboy that it was he who had invented the modern age. Born on a farm in rural Michigan three weeks after the battle of Gettysburg, Ford hated everything about farming as soon as he could understand what it was about. So he turned his attention to the farm machinery that made ...

日治記憶對於台灣後殖民具有什麼意義？何以在日本統治結束超過半世紀之後，二十一世紀卻有許多不同族群的台灣小說家重返日治記憶，深入探索日治時期台灣人的精神面貌？不僅文學界如此，美術界與電影界也高度青睞日治記憶，例如謝里法的《紫色大稻埕》、紀錄片《緑的海平線》、劇情片《KANO》、《不一樣的月光》等。日治記憶儼然成為當代台灣...

Alfred Nobel began his career as a brilliant inventor and industrialist, but his inventionsーparticularly the creation of dynamiteーbrought him more anguish than satisfaction. Though his scientific achievements earned him fortune and fame, Nobel became deeply troubled by the destructive uses of his work. Branded the...

Pontiac's War erupted in the Great Lakes region of North America just as the French and Indian War came to a close in 1763. The French, who had initially established a European presence there, were usurped by the British, whose relations with indigenous peoples were notoriously less diplomatic and more destructive. ...

In 1940, defeat seemed inevitable. Yet from the beaches of Dunkirk emerged one of the most extraordinary rescues in military history. As German forces closed in, a hastily assembled flotilla of civilian vesselsーlater immortalized as the "Little Ships"ーcrossed the English Channel to save the British Army from annih...

This Element analyses the autobiographies of historians from a global perspective and looks at all eras, from antiquity to the present day. It includes twenty autobiographies: Caesar's and Lucian of Samosata's memories in antiquity; an autobiography of a medieval king such as Peter IV of Aragon; Vico's, Gibbon's and...

Die Phönizier bildeten eine der Hochkulturen des Vorderen Orients und waren ein wirkungsmächtiger Faktor der Geschichte des antiken Mittelmeerraums. Der Band bietet einen anschaulichen Überblick über ihre Religion, ihr Wirtschaftsleben und insbesondere ihre weitreichenden Handelsbeziehungen sowie ihre politische Ges...

'The best book I have read this year' Jeremy Hunt 'Deftly punctures popular misconceptions... Could a history book be more timely?' The Economist 'Engaging and persuasive' New Statesman 'A compelling and timely study of what drove history's most influential civilisations... the book comes with impeccable timing... A...

〓 One man's day becomes every man's story. In Ulysses, James Joyce transforms a single day in Dublin into one of the greatest adventures in all of literature ー a masterpiece of language, identity, and the boundless depth of the human experience. Set on June 16, 1904, the novel follows Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalu...

In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation. Dew re-creates the midcentury American South ...

In the face of ruthless totalitarian rule, it is only the rare few who stand up at risk of their own life to do what is right. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of those exceptional individuals. Even on pain of death, he would not bend, he would not budgeーthis German pastor fought the Nazi regime with every fiber of his ...