A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in "A Turn to Empire", Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as unjust, as well as politically and economically disastrous for the conquering ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 珍妮弗·皮茨，美国普林斯顿大学政治系助理教授，《阿列克西?德?托克维尔：有关帝国与奴隶制的著作》一书的编辑和译者。 封 底 语： 珍妮弗.皮茨……通过展示18世纪和19世纪早期杰出的英法自由主义者对于帝国主义的深刻批判，表明了对帝国主义的支持并非自由主义所固有的特征。……该书行文优美，治学不同凡响。 ——《选择》（Choice） 每一页都体现了研究的深度、通俗易懂的文风和敏锐的才思，该书是一个布局均衡且天衣无缝的整体，揭示了帝国对于现代自由主义起源的影响。它不仅对政治理论家来说是一部头等重要的著作，对哲学、历史及文学读者而言也同样如此。 ——大卫.阿米蒂奇，哈佛大学，《大英帝国的意识形态起源》（The Ideological Origins of the British Empire）的作者 这本内容丰富、促人思考的著作，审视了一个目前...(展开全部)

The definitive history of Roman Britain In the first major narative history of the subject in more than a generation, David Mattingly brings life in Britain during four hundred years of Roman domination into vivid relief. Drawing on a wealth of new research and cutting through the myths and misunderstandings that commonly surround most perceptions of Roman Britain, An Imper...(展开全部)

As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. Furthermore, many Genevans felt that they were being drawn into a corrupt commercial world dominated by amoral aristocrats dedicated to the unprincipled pursuit of wealth. In this book Richard Whatmore presen...(展开全部)

At the beginning of the twentieth century, many in Britain believed their nation to be a dominant world power that its former colony, the United States, could only hope to emulate. Yet by the interwar years, the United States seemed to some to embody a different type of global eminence, one based not only on political and economic stature but also on new forms of mass culture l...(展开全部)

The revelation that the U.S. Department of Defense had hired anthropologists for its Human Terrain System Project to assist its operations in Afghanistan and Iraq caused an uproar in academia. That has obscured the participation of sociologists in similar Pentagon-funded projects. As the contributors to Sociology and Empire show, such affiliations are not new: sociologists have...(展开全部)