Rice today is food to half the world's population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy. The history of rice is currently a vital and innovative field of research attracting serious attention, but no attempt has yet been made to write a history of rice and its place in...(展开全部)

Rice today is food to half the world's population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy. The history of rice is currently a vital and innovative field of research attracting serious attention, but no attempt has yet been made to write a history of rice and its place in...(展开全部)

Featuring a sweeping array of essays from scholars of state formation and development, this book presents an overview of approaches to studying the history of the state. Focusing on the question of state formation, this volume takes a particular look at the beginnings, structures, and constant reforming of state power. Not only do the contributors draw upon both modernist and p...(展开全部)

Featuring a sweeping array of essays from scholars of state formation and development, this book presents an overview of approaches to studying the history of the state. Focusing on the question of state formation, this volume takes a particular look at the beginnings, structures, and constant reforming of state power. Not only do the contributors draw upon both modernist and p...(展开全部)

When the prevailing system of governing divides the planet into mutually exclusive territorial monopolies of force, what institutions can govern the Internet, with its transnational scope, boundless scale, and distributed control? Given filtering-censorship by states and concerns over national cyber-security, it is often assumed that the Internet will inevitably be subordinated...(展开全部)

The figure of the Chinese sex worker—who provokes both disdain and desire—has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their tales clarify the boundaries of citizenship, nationalism, and internationalism. In Transpacific Attachments, Lily Wong studies the mo...(展开全部)

This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways and considering the role of ornament in both art and architecture, Histories of Ornament offers a nuanced examination that integrates medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and modern Euroamerican traditions...(展开全部)

The contributors to New World Orderings demonstrate that China’s twenty-first-century rise occurs not only through economics and state politics but equally through the mutual entanglements of overlapping social, economic, and cultural worlds in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They show how the Chinese state has sought to reconfigure the nation’s position in the world...(展开全部)

你所知道的歷史，都有可能是錯的！ 《貨幣崛起》與《文明》作者尼爾．弗格森帶來一個想像世界的全新方式 「尼爾．弗格森是他這時代中最傑出的英國歷史學者」—《泰晤士報》 大部分的歷史是階級制的：它是關於教宗、總統和總理的。如果這只是因為他們創造了歷史檔案呢？如果我們失去了同樣強大但被屏蔽的網絡該怎麼辦？–這些問題不該只留給陰謀論者，即便他們幻想光明會在背後壟斷世界政權？ 世界由兩個不同的力量組織而成：階級和網絡 21世紀被稱為網路時代。但在本書中，尼爾．弗格森認為社群網路並非新玩意。從造成宗教改革的印刷工人與傳教士到帶領美國革命的共濟會成員，他們都是破壞教宗與國王舊秩序的網絡成員。在我們進行中的歷史，已來到第二次網絡時代，電腦扮演著印刷工人的重要角色。一但我們明白這一點，過去和未來，看起來將非常不同。 「強大的、節奏明快的敘述」–《衛報》 尼爾．弗格森帶我...(展开全部)