Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why ...(展开全部)

Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. ...(展开全部)

作者迦多尼是位博学的历史学者，也曾当过校长。他是一位诗人，也写过剧本，但真正让他在文坛留名的却是这本于1901年完成的历史小说。 为写此书，他钻研历史背景，读遍欧洲古籍，寻找所有关于匈奴人的史料，还到法国中部古战场寻找历史临场感。此外，他研究罗马人与匈奴人的战法，为求逼真，战争场面重写了许多回。

In the first half of the eighteenth century, members of the Naqshbandi Sufi dynasty vied for influence in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang. In the 1750s, the collapse of the Junghar Mongol state gave one branch of this family an opportunity to assert their independence in the oasis cities of Kashgar and Yarkand. Others sided with the armies of the Qing dynasty, whi...(展开全部)

In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the careers of merchants who traded there. She follows the histories of three merchant families from various social ranks who conducted trade in Siberia for well over a century. These include the Filat'evs, who were among Russia's most illust...(展开全部)

Cashews from Africa's Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica—in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era's explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation of individuals...(展开全部)

In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland — pirated the works of prominent (and often banned) French writers and distributed them in France, where laws governing piracy were in flux and any notion of "copyright" very much in its...(展开全部)

哈佛大學歷史學博士，目前為美國加州大學聖塔克魯茲分校（University of California, Santa Cruz）意識歷史學系榮譽教授，並於2011年當選美國藝術與科學院院士（American Academy of Arts and Sciences），為當代文化反思論述之最重要學者，其跨學科觀點與批判包含人類學與民族誌、田野調查工作、原住民研究、藝術、歷史，博物館學，與文學分析。著有《個人與神話》、《文化的困境》、《路徑：20世紀後期的旅行與翻譯》（1997）、《復返：21世紀成為原住民》（2013）、《人類學邊緣》等書，同時與喬治．馬庫斯（George Marcus）編輯有《書寫文化》。

When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a world that doesn’t stand still, that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marke...(展开全部)

M.莱恩·布鲁纳（M.Lane Bruner）， 美国乔治亚州大学公共关系副教授。