South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country’s development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist Poland, Lim recognized striking similarities between Korean and Polish history and politics. One realization stood out: Both Korea a...(展开全部)

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision som...(展开全部)

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision som...(展开全部)

Imagining Sculpture is the story of the absence of a powerful European idea: Sculpture. In China statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia but were not categorized as Sculpture. Imagining Sculpture explains how they were seen in China as objects beyond the category of Sculpture. Stanley Abe has written a series of short historical and fictional vignettes...(展开全部)

Starting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and continuing up to the present, Imagining the Balkans covers the Balkan's most formative years. From the down fall of the Ottoman Empire, through the turbulent nationalist years of the nineteenth century, up to World War I, the idea of the Balkans was fiercely, often violently, contested. In the wake of WWI, the beginnings o...(展开全部)

"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imag...(展开全部)

巴里·布赞，伦敦政治经济学院荣誉教授(曾任蒙塔古·伯顿讲席教授)，哥本哈根大学、吉林大学、外交学院名誉教授，伦敦政治经济学院“国际事务、外交与国际战略研究中心”(LSE IDEAS)高级研究员，英国科学院院士。 阿米塔·阿查亚，联合国教科文组织跨国挑战与治理中心主席，美利坚大学国际事务学院杰出教授。国际研究协会(ISA)前主席，曾因在国际组织和非西方国际关系学研究方面的贡献获国际研究协会杰出学者奖。 李东琪，吉林大学世界史专业(国际关系史方向)博士，莫斯科国立国际关系学院访问学者，中国社会科学院历史理论研究所助理研究员，译有《全球国际关系学的构建：百年国际关系学的起源和演进》（合译）等。 颜震，吉林大学世界史专业(国际关系史方向)博士，徐州工程学院外国语学院教师，吉林大学国际关系研究所研究员，译有《乌克兰史》《英国学派理论导论》《早期现代世界的国际秩...(展开全部)