The Atlantic Puffin is a familiar symbol of the Atlantic region, and its Latin name means "Little Brother of the North." Accompanied with beautiful illustrations, Atlantic Puffin details habitat, breeding cycles, eating and nesting habits, and more about the life of this fascinating animal. Artistically rendered and carefully researched, this latest installment from the popular...(展开全部)

From Antiquity to modern times, the Atlantic has been the subject of myths and legends. The Atlantic by Paul Butel offers a global history of the ocean encompassing the exploits of adventurers, Vikings, explorers such as Christopher Columbus, emigrants, fishermen, and modern traders. The book also highlights the importance of the growth of ports such as New York and Liverpool a...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create new economies and societies in the early modern world. This deeply researched history of cloth and clothing offers new insights into trade patterns, consumer demand and sartorial cultures that emerged across the Atlantic world between...(展开全部)

An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore. In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child sneaking naps on bags of r...(展开全部)

An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore. In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child sneaking naps on bags of r...(展开全部)

【作者简介】保罗·吉尔罗伊（Paul Gilroy，1956— ），英国著名黑人理论家、英国国家学术院院士，国际人文社科领域重量级奖项霍尔贝格奖获得者。吉尔罗伊1986年在伯明翰大学当代文化研究中心（CCCS）取得博士学位，是斯图亚特·霍尔的得意门生，也被认为是霍尔之后最重要的种族 理论家之一。曾任耶鲁大学非裔美国人研究系系主任，现为伦敦大学学院教授、种族与种族主义研究中心主任。著有《大英帝国没有黑人》《阵营之间》《帝国之后》等。 【译者简介】沈若然，华东师范大学中文系博士后，复旦大学文学博士，主要从事西方文论研究。

Timely reissue of the classic radical history of race and modernity In this groundbreaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American, Carribean or British alone, but can only be understand as a Black Atlantic culture that transcends ethnicity or nationality. This culture is thorough modern and, often, overlooked b...(展开全部)

"Science and Empire in the Atlantic World" is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, a...(展开全部)

In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every day. But in Nigeria’s “cash and carry” system, 90 percent of the currency never comes back to a bank after it’s issued. What happens when two such radically different economies meet and mingle, as they have for centuries in Atlantic Africa? The answer is a rich diversity of economic prac...(展开全部)

Timely reissue of the classic radical history of race and modernity In this groundbreaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American, Carribean or British alone, but can only be understand as a Black Atlantic culture that transcends ethnicity or nationality. This culture is thorough modern and, often, overlooked b...(展开全部)