Nationally-specific definitions of citizenship proved decisive for the development of the Tax State in Brazil and South Africa in the twentieth century. Although both countries had been divided along racial and regional lines in the late nineteenth century, watershed constitutions addressed these political problems in very different ways. South Africa's institutionalized white ...(展开全部)

威廉·贝纳特　英国布里斯托大学历史系高级讲师，作品有《南非乡村隐藏的斗争》（合著，1987）、《二十世纪的南非》（1994）、《二十世纪南非的种族隔离》（合编，1995）、《南非资源保护主义的兴起：1770—1950》（2003）、《社会史与非洲环境》（合编，2003）、《环境与帝国》（合著，2007）。 彼得·科茨　英国布里斯托大学讲师，著有《阿拉斯加输油管之争》（1991）、《自然：西方古代以来的观念》（1998；2005）、《美国人对移民和入侵物种的感知》（2007）。

The influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new worlds into which Europeans have expanded over the past five hundred years. Using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, Beinart and Coates examine this neglected aspect of the history of settler incursion and dominance in two frontier nations, the USA and South Africa. They a...(展开全部)

Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America examines the idealisation of Asian America by its intellectuals, the saturation of Asian America with capitalist practices, and the challenges posed by Asian America's ideological diversity. Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture, and politics, a...(展开全部)

In Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Namhee Lee explores memory construction and history writing in post-1987 South Korea. The massive neoliberal reconstruction of all aspects of society shifted public discourse from minjung (people) to simin (citizen), from political to cultural, from collective to individual. This shift reconstituted peopl...(展开全部)

Xiaobo Lü , University of California, Berkeley Changdong Zhang , Peking University, Beijing

Rapid social economic changes, the transition from a planned economy to a market economy, or even economic liberalization can lead to political instability and the collapse of authoritarian regimes. Despite experiencing all of these unprecedented changes in the past forty years, China under the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership has so far successfully transformed and improve...(展开全部)