As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world’s second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world, the cont...(展开全部)

文安立（Odd Arne Westad），出生于挪威，主要研究冷战和当代东亚历史，美国哈佛大学肯尼迪学院教授、中国问题专家。 教授世界史。著作包括《剑桥冷战史》《全球冷战》《不安的帝国》等。

文安立（Odd Arne Westad），出生于挪威，主要研究冷战和当代东亚历史，美国哈佛大学肯尼迪学院教授、中国问题专家。 教授世界史。著作包括《剑桥冷战史》《全球冷战》《不安的帝国》等。

文安立（Odd Arne Westad），出生于挪威，主要研究冷战和当代东亚历史，美国哈佛大学肯尼迪学院教授、中国问题专家。 教授世界史。著作包括《剑桥冷战史》《全球冷战》《不安的帝国》等。

The author, in his twenties, who is fluent in Chinese, examines the future of China through the lens of the Jiu Ling Hou―the generation born after 1990. A close up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990 exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything from money and sex, to their government, the West, and China’s shifting role in the world--...(展开全部)

This outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the underdeveloped countries) and the effects of all these on the life of the British people.

The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of 'empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. While the central focus is on historiography, other related fields are also explored: geography and cartography, epigraphy, art and architecture, and, more generally, political...(展开全部)

"Science and Empire in the Atlantic World" is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, a...(展开全部)

Eminent scientists Malcolm Potts and Roger Short view the broad panorama of human sexual and reproductive behaviour to reveal an inextricable mixture of nature and nurture - a combination of innate actions which have evolved over the millennia to adapt us to a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle, overlain by more recent cultural constraints imposed by civilization. For each of l...(展开全部)

This book explores the long-term forces shaping business attitudes in the British and American cotton industries from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Mary Rose traces social, political and developmental differences from the early stages of industrialization. She demonstrates how firms become embedded in networks, and evolve according to business values and strategies. ...(展开全部)