"Alibis of Empire" presents a novel account of the origins, substance, and afterlife of late imperial ideology. Karuna Mantena challenges the idea that Victorian empire was primarily legitimated by liberal notions of progress and civilization. In fact, as the British Empire gained its farthest reach, its ideology was being dramatically transformed by a self-conscious rejection ...(展开全部)

Daniel R. Headrick is Professor of Social Science and History at Roosevelt University and author of numerous books on world history.

Daniel R. Headrick is Professor of Social Science and History at Roosevelt University and author of numerous books on world history.

The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these vi...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 罗伯特·D.卡普兰（Robert D. Kaplan，1952—）美国著名地缘政治专家，18本外交政策和游记类畅销书作者，两度被《外交政策》评为“全球100位顶尖思想者”之一。他的作品影响了克林顿和小布什两任美国总统的军事决策，《大西洋月刊》资深主笔、知名记者，现任欧亚集团高级顾问，曾任新美国安全中心高级研究员和美国五角大楼国防政策委员会委员。 卡普兰游历了近70个国家和地区，对世界政治局势和地缘政治深有体会，擅长运用游记的写作手法处理新闻和政治议题，其作品兼具文学性与地缘政治分析的严肃性，他与塞缪尔·亨廷顿、保罗·肯尼迪和弗朗西斯·福山并称“被最广泛阅读的描绘后冷战世界的作家”。其代表作有《无政府时代的来临》《巴尔干两千年》《季风》《即将到来的地缘战争》《世界的尽头》《东进鞑靼》《马可 ·波罗世界的回归》《荒野帝国》等。 ··· 【译...(展开全部)

Having drawn a startlingly prescient portrait of the Bosnian catastrophe in his bestseller, Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan now travels more widely and ambitiously. In this gritty tour de force of travel writing and political reportage, he covers an arc from West Africa to Southeast Asia, across a world in which nation-states are giving way to warring nationalities and where metas...(展开全部)