The British Empire gave rise to various new forms of British identity in the colonial world outside the Dominions. In cities and colonies, and in sovereign states subject to more informal pressures such as Argentina or China, communities of Britons developed identities inflected by local ambitions and pressures. As a result they often found themselves at loggerheads with their ...(展开全部)

作者： 凯特•梅斯纳（Kate Messner），美国童书作家。毕业于雪城大学，做过7年的电视新闻节目制片人和记者，还当过15年的英语老师，并通过了全美专业教学标准委员会的高级教师资格认证。2011年她开始从事儿童文学创作，已出版60多部作品，代表作有《菜园里，泥土中》《池塘上，池塘下》《雪地上，雪地下》《雨林里，枝叶间》《如何读一本故事书》《如何写作一个故事》《深海璀璨》等。作品荣获金风筝奖、E.B.怀特朗读奖、NYT绘本奖、银行街教育学院图书奖等多项殊荣。2022年，凯特荣获由纽约图书馆协会颁发的帝国奖，表彰她在青少年文学做出的重大贡献。 绘者： 克里斯托弗•赛拉斯•尼尔（Christopher Silas Neal），艺术家、插画家，长期为NYT供稿，作品在一系列杂志中发表，获奖颇丰，并多次参展。曾在科罗拉多大学主修音乐，后转而学习大众传播及平...(展开全部)

Manga meets Pop meets Zen in Over the Rainbow, the first combined presentation of Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito--close friends and stars of the Japanese contemporary art scene. Nara, born in 1959, is regarded as one of Japan's foremost contemporary artists, and has attained a cult status in his homeland that is hardly conceivable for European artists to reach. His signature...(展开全部)

Approaching its demise, the Ming imperial administration enlisted members of the Cheng family as mercenaries to help in the defense of the coastal waters of Fukien. Under the leadership of Cheng Chih-lung, also known as Nicolas Iquan, and with the help of the local gentry, these mercenaries became the backbone of the empire’s maritime defense and the protectors of Chinese comme...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging consideration of intellectual diasporas, historian Peter Burke questions what distinctive contribution to knowledge exiles and expatriates have made. The answer may be summed up in one word: deprovincialization. Historically, the encounter between scholars from different cultures was an education for both parties, exposing them to research opportunities and...(展开全部)

Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world. How did a nomad come to conquer China and master the sea? Based on ten years of research and a lifetime of immer...(展开全部)

琳达•科利（Linda Colley，1949-），英国皇家历史学会和皇家文学学会成员，普林斯顿大学历史学教授，曾任教于耶鲁大学和伦敦政治经济学院，长于英国史、帝国史和民族主义问题研究。著有《挑战寡头政治：1714-1760年的托利党》（1982年）、《纳米尔》（1988年）、《英国人：国家的形成，1707-1837年》（1992年）、《囚徒：1600-1850年的英国、帝国和世界》（2002）和《伊丽莎白·玛什的痛苦经历：世界历史中的一个女人》（2007年）。 周玉鹏，历史学博士，建筑学博士后。出版有《菲拉雷特建筑学论集》《可持续性建筑》《比例》《紧缩城市》《历史学与社会理论》等专、译著二十余部；主持、指导、参与规划、设计项目十余项。

In this wide-ranging consideration of intellectual diasporas, historian Peter Burke questions what distinctive contribution to knowledge exiles and expatriates have made. The answer may be summed up in one word: deprovincialization. Historically, the encounter between scholars from different cultures was an education for both parties, exposing them to research opportunities and...(展开全部)