This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history of the diverse societies and economies of Iran against the background of dynastic ch...(展开全部)

This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history of the diverse societies and economies of Iran against the background of dynastic ch...(展开全部)

Japan: A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the investiture of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 to the present.

Today over 12 million people are stateless and millions more are refugees or displaced persons. Mira Siegelberg shows how the much-contested legal category of statelessness generated novel visions of political and legal authority beyond the territorial state, before ultimately empowering the sovereign territorial state as the fundamental source of protection and rights. Two wor...(展开全部)

Hunger is as old as history itself. Indeed, it appears to be a timeless and inescapable biological condition. And yet perceptions of hunger and of the hungry have changed over time and differed from place to place. Hunger has a history, which can now be told.At the beginning of the 19th century, hunger was viewed as an unavoidable natural phenomenon or as the fault of its lazy ...(展开全部)

Japan: A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the investiture of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 to the present.

泰瑞・五月・米爾霍普（Terry Satsuki Milhaupt，1959－2012） 紐約的獨立藝術史學家、特約策展人，同時是國際公認的日本紡織品專家。 夏威夷大學（University of Hawaii）學士，哥倫比亞大學（Columbia University）東亞學系碩士，聖路易斯華盛頓大學（Washington University in St. Louis）藝術史博士。曾以其對日本語文、藝術與紡織品的深刻造詣，獲得明仁皇太子獎學金與日本文部省獎學金。 包括《世界服飾與時尚百科全書》（Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, 2010）等在內，曾為為數眾多的展覽手冊與出版品撰稿。 審訂者簡介 黃韻如 日本御茶之水女子大學博士，專攻日本服飾文化及日本工藝美術。現任職於國立故宮博物院，從事文...(展开全部)

"Allen Fromherz has written an excellent book on Qatar based on a thorough knowledge of historical sources, and enriched by his own experience in the country. This book will be essential reading to anyone interested in Qatar and useful to anyone interested more broadly in the dynamics of the Arab Gulf states." -- Jill Crystal, professor of political science, Auburn University, ...(展开全部)

Today over 12 million people are stateless and millions more are refugees or displaced persons. Mira Siegelberg shows how the much-contested legal category of statelessness generated novel visions of political and legal authority beyond the territorial state, before ultimately empowering the sovereign territorial state as the fundamental source of protection and rights. Two wor...(展开全部)

Hunger is as old as history itself. Indeed, it appears to be a timeless and inescapable biological condition. And yet perceptions of hunger and of the hungry have changed over time and differed from place to place. Hunger has a history, which can now be told.At the beginning of the 19th century, hunger was viewed as an unavoidable natural phenomenon or as the fault of its lazy ...(展开全部)