The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and they need to be interpreted as expressions of power and knowledge, as Steven Seegel makes clear in his impressive and importan...(展开全部)

Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong. Chapters address numerous and varied dimensions of belonging in multiethnic territories of the O...(展开全部)

曼斯缪·奎尼，意大利著名汉学家，卫匡国研究中心研究员，热那亚大学人文与哲学系地理学教师，同时也是意大利地理学研究的主要理论家之一。其科学著作《马克思主义、地理学与人文地理学的重构》被译成数种语言.他主要研究历史地理学、制图史和疆域史。 米歇尔·卡斯特诺威，1968年出生于萨沃纳，是热那亚大学人文与哲学系历史地理研究员。卡斯特诺威是一位航海史专家，也是意大利历史地图研究所成员，同时也是一本评论杂志的编委会成员。 汪前进，中国科学院自然科学史研究所研究员，地图史专家。

康斯坦斯·克拉森，康考迪亚大学的研究员，感觉史研究专家，长期专注于感觉史的研究，致力于探索人类感官知觉与文化之间的关系，以及感官经验如何影响了社会和文化的发展等主题。代表作有《感觉的世界 :探索历史与跨文化的感觉》《芳香 :嗅觉文化史》《深层感知 :触摸的文化史》《感知的方式 :理解社会中的感官》，曾担任六卷本《感官文化史》丛书的主编。

Partners of the Empire offers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over this unstable period, the Ottoman Empire faced political crises, institutional shakeups, and popular insurrections. It responded through various reform options and settlements. New institutional configurations emerged; constitutional texts were codifie...(展开全部)

作者 [土耳其]阿里·亚伊哲奥卢，斯坦福大学历史教授，曾在哈佛大学攻读博士学位，方向为历史与中东研究，随后在普林斯顿大学希腊研究中心做博士后研究。第一本专著《帝国的伙伴》获得2016年由美国图书馆学会主办的杰出学术选择奖。 译者 宋宁刚，南京大学哲学博士，现任教于西安财经大学文学院，译有《怪作家》《天使时间：康托洛维茨传》等。

This ambitious book explores the role of empire in world history. What does it mean to be an empire? How does one empire differ from another? Why does an empire rise and why fall? Why have empires flourished in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? On an unusally wide canvas, Dominic Lieven addresses all these questions. His central focus is on the rise and...(展开全部)

Dominic Lieven, a former Kennedy scholar at Harvard University, is professor of Russian government at the London School of Economics. Among his many publications are the highly praised Nicholas II and Russia’s Rulers under the Old Regime, published by Yale University Press.

How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire from ancient Rome to the present. The central focus of the book is Russia and the rise and fall of the Tsarist and the Soviet Empir...(展开全部)

How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire from ancient Rome to the present. The central focus of the book is Russia and the rise and fall of the Tsarist and the Soviet Empir...(展开全部)