Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice. Yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern United States. By the middle of the 18th century, rice plantations in South Carolina and the...(展开全部)

A study of the politics of rice in Canton, this book sheds new light on the local history of the city and illuminates how China's struggles with food shortages in the early twentieth century unfolded and the ways in which they were affected by the rise of nationalism and the fluctuation of global commerce. Author Seung-joon Lee profiles Canton as an exemplary site of provisioni...(展开全部)

In this terrifying novel from the phenomenally successful Anne Rice, the illustrious vampire Lestat makes a Faustian pact with Devil. Satan has come to New Orleans with an enticing proposition. Under the name Memnoch this lord of darkness takes Lestat on a tour through the boundaries of space and time, offering an alternative and personalised account of the Bible, exploring the...(展开全部)

The contrast in the rate of growth between Western and Eastern societies since 1800 has caused Asian societies to be characterized as backward and resistant to change, though until 1600 or so certain Asian states were technologically far in advance of Europe. "The Rice Economies", drawing on original source materials, examines patterns of technological and social evolution spec...(展开全部)

苏童，男，生于1963年1月，江苏苏州人。1980年考入北京师范大学中文系，1984年到南京工作，一度担任《钟山》编辑，现为中国作家协会江苏分会驻会专业作家。1983年开始发表小说，迄今有作品百十万字，其中中短篇小说集七部，长篇小说二部。中篇小说 《妻妾成群》被著名电影导演张艺谋改编成电影《大红灯笼高高挂》，获奥斯卡金像奖提名。

Louis is a vampire tortured by guilt. His status as a killer has left him conflicted for much of his immortal life, but after the murder of Claudia, his beloved child vampire, he spirals into a state of depression. And in a moment of desperation he decides to bring her back with the help of the beautiful witch Merrick. To save Louis' sanity, Merrick must use black magic to call...(展开全部)

The French political philosopher and historian Francois Guizot (1787-1874) was one of the French Doctrinaires, thinkers who sought to avoid the interpretations of the Revolution advanced by either extreme of Left or Right. He argued that in order to understand the nature of political institutions it is necessary to study first the society, its composition, and the relation betw...(展开全部)

In this famous book Philip Bell examines the European origins of the Second World War from three different angles: first, he sets out the various explanations which have been offered for the war, and discusses the historiographical debates to which they have given rise; he then analyses the major underlying forces - ideological, economic and strategic - that were at work in Eur...(展开全部)

P.M.H.贝尔（P.M.H.Bell），英国欧洲近现代史专家，利物浦大学荣誉高级教席享有者，长于欧洲国际关系史研究。著有《法国与英国（1900—1940）：协约与疏离》、《法国与英国（1940—1994）：长分裂》以及《第二次世界大战的起源：欧洲战场》。其中《第二次世界大战的起源》自1986年首版后多次再版，是其重要代表作。 杨光海，解放军国际关系学院国际战略系教授，国家安全战略研究中心主任。著有《国际安全制度及其在东亚的实践》，参与翻译《二十世纪世界史》。 丁山，解放军国际关系学院副教授。