In Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the present, historicizing the most vivid imaginations and modes of power in Africa to...(展开全部)

唐·伊德（Don Ihde，1934－2024） 美国纽约州立大学石溪分校哲学系杰出教授，当代著名技术哲学家，是技术现象学的代表人物。

唐·伊德（Don Ihde，1934－2024） 美国纽约州立大学石溪分校哲学系杰出教授，当代著名技术哲学家，是技术现象学的代表人物。

"Bodies in Code "explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biological reality when talking about virtual reality, and Mark B.N. Hansen's book shows what they've been missing. Cyberspace is anchored in the body, he argues, and it's the body-not high-tech computer graphics-that allows a person to feel like...(展开全部)

Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David Arnold's wide-ranging and analytical survey demonstrates the importance of examini...(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)

What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspectives by addressing diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenic...(展开全部)

What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspectives by addressing diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenic...(展开全部)

- An innovative history of medicine, science and environment in modern India that places toxicity, and its management, as a central theme in colonial science and governance - Covers the 1830s to the postcolonial period to show how the imperatives behind science and its authority and social utility changed over time - Combines social, scientific and environmental history to demo...(展开全部)

What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspectives by addressing diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenic...(展开全部)