Placing Empire examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the early 1950s. In a departure from standard histories of Japan, this book shows how debates over the role of colonized lands reshaped the social and spatial imaginary of the modern Japanese ...(展开全部)

The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approach...(展开全部)

In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya Station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming nationally and even internationally famous for his purported loyalty. A year...(展开全部)

Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.

Updated and expanded throughtout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.

玛丽·路易斯·普拉特 Mary Louise Pratt，纽约大学西葡语言文学教授，曾任斯坦福大学奥利芙·H.帕尔默人文学教授。早年在多伦多大学获得现代语言文学学士学位，在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校获得语言学硕士学位，1975年在斯坦福大学获得比较文学博士学位。研究兴趣广泛，涉及拉丁美洲文学与社会、比较文学、 性别研究、殖民主义与帝国主义文化研究等诸多领域。2003年任现代语言协会主席。

玛丽·路易斯·普拉特 Mary Louise Pratt，纽约大学西葡语言文学教授，曾任斯坦福大学奥利芙·H.帕尔默人文学教授。早年在多伦多大学获得现代语言文学学士学位，在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校获得语言学硕士学位，1975年在斯坦福大学获得比较文学博士学位。研究兴趣广泛，涉及拉丁美洲文学与社会、比较文学、 性别研究、殖民主义与帝国主义文化研究等诸多领域。2003年任现代语言协会主席。

This groundbreaking book argues that in the Qin-Han period, there arose in China a regime of textual authority-one that overlapped but did not coincide with imperial authority. Drawing on a wide range of research and theory, Connery makes an original contribution to the analysis of early imperial elite culture, particularly in the fields of literature and linguistics, intellect...(展开全部)

In 1859, the S.S. Great Eastern departed from England on her maiden voyage. She was a remarkable wonder of the nineteenth century: an iron city longer than Trafalgar Square, taller than Big Ben's tower, heavier than Westminster Cathedral. Her paddles were the size of Ferris wheels; her decks could hold four thousand passengers bound for America, or ten thousand troops bound for...(展开全部)

Exploring the reasons for a flurry of geographical works in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century, this study analyzes how cartographers, travellers, astrologers, historians and naval captains promoted their vision of the world and the centrality of the Ottoman Empire in it. It proposes a new case study for the interconnections among empires in the period, demonstrating h...(展开全部)