The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history still inhabits an isolated corner of world history, according to editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Benton and Perl-Rosenthal urge historians to place the relationship b...(展开全部)

A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea—revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. The Sea and Civi...(展开全部)

A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the lens of maritime travel, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways. Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-dis...(展开全部)

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism? Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation, it has been continually redefined as new generations of women campaign against the gend...(展开全部)

Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the contested and fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for centuries, but it was during the long seventeenth century, from 1550 to 1700, that the velocity and scale...(展开全部)

[英] 菲利普•德•索萨（Philip de Souza） 1964年出生于英国南威尔士的阿斯克，在伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院学习历史学和古典学。曾任草莓山圣玛丽学院历史、社会和文化系高级讲师，现在在都柏林大学就职。 他是航海考古协会会员和皇家历史学会会员，代表作品有《极简海洋文明史》《希腊罗马世界的海盗》《希腊波斯战争》等。索萨的妻子德布拉也是历史学家，他们现在生活在萨里。

[英] 菲利普•德•索萨（Philip de Souza） 1964年出生于英国南威尔士的阿斯克，在伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院学习历史学和古典学。曾任草莓山圣玛丽学院历史、社会和文化系高级讲师，现在在都柏林大学就职。 他是航海考古协会会员和皇家历史学会会员，代表作品有《极简海洋文明史》《希腊罗马世界的海盗》《希腊波斯战争》等。索萨的妻子德布拉也是历史学家，他们现在生活在萨里。

Dominic Sachsenmaier examines both the transnational dynamics and networks of global history through case studies on China, Germany and the United States. By extending these local and global connections and integrating approaches to the subject from across the world, he demonstrates how historians can enrich their conceptions of global history.

In recent years, historians across the world have become increasingly interested in transnational and global approaches to the past. However, the debates surrounding this new border-crossing movement have remained limited in scope as theoretical exchanges on the tasks, responsibilities and potentials of global history have been largely confined to national or regional academic ...(展开全部)

How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the rituals and beliefs that have governed milk production and consumption since its use in the earliest societies. Covering the long span...(展开全部)