Recentering the World recovers a richly contextual, detailed history of Western-imposed legal structures in China, as well as engagements with international law by Chinese officials, jurists, and citizens. Beginning in the Late Qing era, it shows how international law functioned as a channel for power relations, techniques of economic domination, as well as novel forms of resis...(展开全部)

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial con...(展开全部)

It is commonly believed that international law originated in relations among European states that respected one another as free and equal. In fact, as Jennifer Pitts shows, international law was forged at least as much through Europeans’ domineering relations with non-European states and empires, leaving a legacy still visible in the unequal structures of today’s international ...(展开全部)

龍安志，社會活動家、國際危機調停人、政治經濟學家和作家。20世紀90年代，他以專業律師和經濟學家身份擔任越南、老撾和柬埔寨央行的顧問，指導這些國家在社會主義轉型期的金融改革，並指導蒙古國的企業改制。在整個20世紀90年代，龍安志向中國的領導人就國有企業改革建言獻策。 自2002年以來，龍安志在喜馬拉雅的高原地帶，以新的模式恢復和發展藏族的文化傳統工藝，開發生態旅遊，將古舊藏族建築修復改造為精品客棧，為底層女性和殘疾人提供小額貸款，為邊遠地區的牧民提供醫療、興建學校。龍安志創辦了非政府組織香巴拉。他還作為北京和達賴喇嘛之間的橋樑，擔任談判中的對話者。 龍安志的著作主題廣泛，關於亞洲的有20多本。他是香港《南華早報》和《亞洲觀察》雜誌的專欄作家和評論員。目前，龍安志主要致力於“喜馬拉雅共識”非政府組織的工作和“非洲共識決議”的創立。

From the twilight of the Roman Empire emerged the kingdoms of Merovingian Europe (c. 400-700 AD), which were, in turn, the basis for the nations of medieval and modern Europe. Professor Geary draws on the latest archaeological and historical findings to elucidate one of the least understood periods of European history. This text is aimed at both survey and graduate courses on m...(展开全部)

In this innovative new study, Patrick Geary rejects traditional notions of European history to present the Merovingian period (ca. 400-750) as an integral part of Late Antiquity. Drawing on current scholarship in archaeology, cultural history, historical ethnography, and other fields, the author formulates an original interpretation not only of Merovingian history but of the Ro...(展开全部)

From the twilight of the Roman Empire emerged the kingdoms of Merovingian Europe (c. 400-700 AD), which were, in turn, the basis for the nations of medieval and modern Europe. Professor Geary draws on the latest archaeological and historical findings to elucidate one of the least understood periods of European history. This text is aimed at both survey and graduate courses on m...(展开全部)

What is objectivity? What is the rule of law? Are the operations of legal systems objective? If so, in what ways and to what degrees are they objective? Does anything of importance depend on the objectivity of law? These are some of the principal questions addressed by Matthew H. Kramer in this lucid and wide-ranging study that introduces readers to vital areas of philosophical...(展开全部)

Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management strategies that still visibly shape our ...(展开全部)

Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favorably compared with the European Renaissance, which in many ways the Song transformation surpassed. With the chaotic dissolution...(展开全部)