为什么说20世纪初的上海是“中国之门”？本书的回答是：上海是一个小小的世界，在这里可以近距离地研究整个中国的缩影，新旧事物以及古今习俗都奇特地融合在一起，比远东任何一座城市都更能凸显变革之中的东方特色。本书以一种发展、进步、肯定的眼光看待上海，强调上海新旧元素融合并存的特征。除了详细描绘上海自开埠之后的市政建设、街道交...

With characteristic rigor and readability, Avi Shlaim reflects on a range of key issues, transformations and personalities in the Israel-Palestine conflict. From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the 2008 invasion of Gaza, Israel and Palestine places current events in their proper historical perspective, and assesses ...

The story of the heroic resilience of the Ukrainians against the military forces of a country with more than three times its population. On 24 February 2022, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, unleashed an attack on Ukraine that developed into the most significant conflict in Europe since the Second World War....

作者透過一位五、六十年代香港寫實攝影師的鏡頭，帶出三個離鄉別井、在香港落地生根、可歌可泣的奮鬥故事。無論在何處，生活中我們都應有堅持不懈的信念。希望這本書能成為你繼續向前邁進的動力。 〈維多利亞理髮廳的故事〉：理髮店學徒阿健經常被大師兄刁難，每天有各種「考驗」等_他，他會怎樣應對？ 〈馬姐的故事〉：何夫人受邀參加婚禮，...

"This English translation of the original Russian work is thought provoking, challenging the 'official' version of what happened" during World War II ( Firetrench). The memory of the Second World War on the Eastern Frontーstill referred to in modern Russia as the Great Patriotic Warーis an essential element of Russi...

Conflict, Cambodia vs Thailand: Exposing the Desperate Struggle to Deny Khmer Culture is a forensic examination of one of Southeast Asia's most enduring and misunderstood cultural conflicts. Moving beyond military posturing and nationalist rhetoric, this book exposes the deeper struggle over historical inheritance, ...

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Este segundo volumen, analiza los dos meses transcurridos entre el triunfo de Salvador Allende en las elecciones presidenciales y su asunción, el 4 de noviembre de 1970, unos de los períodos más álgidos de la historia de la República.

This book is a work of British diplomatic history that illuminates how Britain's China officials grappled with China's changing position in international affairs during the 20th century. Arguing that the idea of a 'rising China' was recognised by these officials as early as the 1920s, and that they actively took ste...

Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance. Roberta Magnusson e...

For millennia, Heliopolis stood at the heart of Egypt’s cosmic imagination ー a sacred city where priests explained the origins of the universe, kings sought divine legitimacy, and scholars developed ideas that would travel far beyond the Nile Valley. Today, almost nothing of ancient Heliopolis remains visible. Its ...

After the shock and devastation of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the Americans were determined to take their revenge on the Empire of Japan. The Japanese were just as determined to become the dominant power in the Pacific, a goal they were well on their way to achieving as they occupied China, Hong Ko...

求孕，求男，求好男；養胎，安胎，祈順產。 古代女性承擔了生育的重任，卻沒有解釋生育的權力。 在男性書寫的歷史中，我們仍能從中挖掘溫柔的力量。 房內是一位富貴之家的孕婦，獨自半蹲地架在衡木上生產。房外則是她的公公，陪同來助產的高僧，隔著窗戶教她調息。西元六世紀一個不可思議的分娩故事，先後經兩位士大夫抄錄和轉載。這些男性醫...

The October Revolution of 1917, which saw the fall of the Tsar and the installation of a provisional government in Russia, was a momentous event in modern history. The establishment of a Bolshevik regime under charismatic leader Vladimir Lenin shook a world already destabilized by years of world war. However, the Ru...

In December 1989 US Army forces, supported by the US Air Force and US Navy, participated in Operation 'Just Cause'--the invasion of Panama. A combination of airborne, helicopter and ground assaults quickly secured key objectives and eliminated organized resistance. Beginning with a brief history of US-Panama relatio...

For more than three thousand years, Egypt seemed eternal ー its temples unshaken, its kings divine, its Nile eternal. But beneath the gold and granite, Egypt rose and fell again and again. Collapse: The Fall of Ancient Egypt reveals the real story behind the myth of eternal stability. From the famine and chaos that ...