"Condensed yet energetic and substantial history of Chicago. Spinney has a firm sense of historical narrative as well as a keen eye for entertaining and illuminating detail."ー Publishers Weekly A city of immigrants and entrepreneurs, Chicago is quintessentially American. Spinney brings it to life and highlights the...

【核心賣點】 （1）本書以主題形式介紹香港歷史，配上300多幅香港舊照片及報刊文獻，加上細緻的描述，以不同角度了解香港的飲食文化。 （2）本書圖說提供英文翻譯。 （3）修訂版中加入新照片以及更新內容，増加份量及閱讀價值。 【一句話推介】 知味滿香江 看香港百年飲食文化 【內容簡介】 由香港開埠至今，隨着時代轉變和市民的飲食習慣，...

This book analyses the origins, experiences, and challenges of total defence in Europe and comprises a broad spectrum of national case studies as well as one international organisation – NATO. The topic of total defence has been brought to the fore by deglobalisation, augmented international tension, the US pivot to...

"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...

｛所有愛書人珍藏的重磅之作，研究近代日本文化史必讀之書｝ 歷經大火、震災與戰爭劫後的神保町， 如何蛻變成愛書人爭相朝聖的世界第一書街？ ★亞馬遜網路書店5星好評 ★日本上市一個月即「重版出來」！ ★翻譯家邱振瑞──專文推薦 日本文壇奇才、明治大學教授鹿島茂 揭示鮮為人知的書業興衰史，深度刻劃神田古書街的過去、現在與未來 「將神保...

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...

日本在進入江戶時代之後，庶民教育逐步興起。町人階層開始接觸到漢籍，並從中獲得豐富的知識及精神層面上的滿足，漢語學習成為熱潮。本書以《唐話纂要》《重訂冠解助語辭》等江戶時代十九部漢語研究類著述為文獻基礎，揭示江戶學者對漢語所進行的研究。同時，對中日同期的漢語研究進行比較分析，並從學術史的角度梳理江戶時代漢語研究的學術...

〓 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...