How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how developme...(展开全部)

Why would the removal of authoritarian institutions in some developing countries lead to sustained socio-economic crisis, while others experience explosive growth despite 'persisting' informal, insecure and rent-seeking institutional arrangements? A key to solving this enigma lies in understanding China, a country where the paradoxes of development are highly visible. Peter Ho ...(展开全部)

The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and t...(展开全部)

《全球冷战》令人印象深刻的地方就是作者驾驭多边档案史料的功底。在书中，文安立不但使用了公开出版的史料集、回忆录、博士论文及其他二手资料，而且触摸了大量为世人所不了解的多边档案，其中了包括了俄罗斯（苏联）、中国、塞尔维亚和黑山、意大利、德国、美国和南非等数国，涉及了多种所在国语言。这充分体现了 作者高超的语言使用能力和史料梳理技艺，令人赞叹。在充分的事实基础上，作者为我们详细地描述了美苏两国干涉第三世界国家的全景史画，并突出了二者彼此相异的意识形态诉求和策略手段。而且，他将笔触一直延伸至21世纪初的当代世界，顺流直下，将干涉史的影响与当代国际热点问题紧密、妥当地联系在一起，显现了其炽热的现实关怀热情。

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-?ve years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture...(展开全部)

This Third Edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages and exotic scripts will continue to fascinate reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries and...(展开全部)

"The essays are provocative and enhance knowledge of Third World women's issues. Highly recommended... " --Choice ..". the book challenges assumptions and pushes historic and geographical boundaries that must be altered if women of all colors are to win the struggles thrust upon us by the 'new world order' of the 1990s." --New Directions for Women "This surely is a book for any...(展开全部)

Why are coffee, tobacco, and marijuana available the world over, but not peyote or qat? Why are alcohol and tobacco legal, but not heroin or cocaine? What drives the drug, and how has it come to be what it is today - a vast, chequered pattern of use and abuse, medicine and recreation, commerce and interdiction? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent me...(展开全部)