Ming porcelain is widely regarded among the world's finest cultural treasures. From ordinary household items patiently refined for imperial use, porcelain became a dynamic force in domestic consumption in China and a valuable commodity in export trade. In the modern era, it has reached unprecedented heights in art auctions and other avenues of global commerce. This book examine...(展开全部)

With one of the world's fastest-growing economies and a population quickly approaching two billion, China holds substantial sway over global financial, social, and cultural networks. This volume explains China's economic rise and liberalization and assesses how this growth is reshaping the structure and dynamics of global capitalism in the twenty-first century. China has histor...(展开全部)

With one of the world's fastest-growing economies and a population quickly approaching two billion, China holds substantial sway over global financial, social, and cultural networks. This volume explains China's economic rise and liberalization and assesses how this growth is reshaping the structure and dynamics of global capitalism in the twenty-first century. China has histor...(展开全部)

In the late 19th century, an enduring preference for highly ornamented architecture gave way to a budding Modernism of clean lines and unadorned surfaces. At the same moment, everyday objects - cups, saucers, chairs, and tables - began to receive critical attention. Alina Payne addresses this shift, arguing for a new understanding of the genealogy of architectural modernism. Ra...(展开全部)

In the late 19th century, an enduring preference for highly ornamented architecture gave way to a budding Modernism of clean lines and unadorned surfaces. At the same moment, everyday objects - cups, saucers, chairs, and tables - began to receive critical attention. Alina Payne addresses this shift, arguing for a new understanding of the genealogy of architectural modernism. Ra...(展开全部)

The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth’s ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but, as Peter Dauvergne makes clear, global political and economic processes displace the real costs of consumer goods into distant...(展开全部)

巴里·布赞：英国伦敦政治经济学院国际关系系荣誉教授、外交政策智库“国际事务、外交与战略研究中心”（LSE IDEAS）高级研究员、英国社会科学院院士，是国际关系“英国学派”的代表人物，他的代表作包括：《世界历史中的国际体系》（与理查德·利特尔合著）、《地区安全复合体与国际安全结构》（与奥利·维夫合著）、《从国际社会到世界社会》、《国际安全研究的演化》（与琳娜·汉森合著）、《英国学派理论导论》等。 乔治·劳森：英国伦敦政治经济学院国际关系系副教授，他聚焦于国际关系与历史社会学之间的交叉研究，著有《协商的革命》，主编有《全球1989》（与克里斯·阿姆布拉斯特、迈克尔·考克斯合著）。

The 'long nineteenth century' (1776-1914) was a period of political, economic, military and cultural revolutions that re-forged both domestic and international societies. Neither existing international histories nor international relations texts sufficiently register the scale and impact of this 'global transformation', yet it is the consequences of these multiple revolutions t...(展开全部)

Totality has been an abiding concern from the first generation of Western Marxists, most notably Lukacs, Korsch, Gramsci, and Bloch, through the second, exemplified by the Frankfurt School, Lefebvre, Goldmann, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Della Volpe, up to the most recent, typified by Althusser, Colletti, and Habermas. Yet no consensus has been reached concerning the term's mult...(展开全部)