A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets. In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of ...(展开全部)

Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century", and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings' leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War and divided and decimated by the Korean War, has recently seen the first real hints of reunification. But positive mo...(展开全部)

作者簡介 布魯斯．康明思（Bruce Cumings） 芝加哥大學歷史系教授，主要研究領域為朝鮮半島現代史、二十世紀國際關係史、美國和東亞關係、美國對外關係、東亞的政治經濟等，是研究東亞冷戰與韓國發展的重要研究者。曾多次前往南北韓，親身經歷過韓國的街頭運動，他的著作也在社會運動狂潮裡，以地下形式廣為流傳。 第一部著作The Origins of the Korean War，即獲得費正清獎，以及Quincy Wright Book Award（對國際研究有貢獻者）。另著有North Korea: Another Country、Dominion from Sea to Sea、《朝鮮戰爭》（左岸）等書。 一九九九年獲選為美國文理科學院院士，二〇〇七年獲得金大中獎，亦榮獲福特基金會、麥克阿瑟基金會等獎助。近年，以學者身分參與濟州島的「四・三事件」轉型正...(展开全部)

作者簡介 布魯斯．康明思（Bruce Cumings） 芝加哥大學歷史系教授，主要研究領域為朝鮮半島現代史、二十世紀國際關係史、美國和東亞關係、美國對外關係、東亞的政治經濟等，是研究東亞冷戰與韓國發展的重要研究者。曾多次前往南北韓，親身經歷過韓國的街頭運動，他的著作也在社會運動狂潮裡，以地下形式廣為流傳。 第一部著作The Origins of the Korean War，即獲得費正清獎，以及Quincy Wright Book Award（對國際研究有貢獻者）。另著有North Korea: Another Country、Dominion from Sea to Sea、《朝鮮戰爭》（左岸）等書。 一九九九年獲選為美國文理科學院院士，二〇〇七年獲得金大中獎，亦榮獲福特基金會、麥克阿瑟基金會等獎助。近年，以學者身分參與濟州島的「四・三事件」轉型正...(展开全部)

Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century", and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings' leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War and divided and decimated by the Korean War, has recently seen the first real hints of reunification. But positive mo...(展开全部)

Empires - vast states of territories and people united by force and ambition - have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. "Empires in World History" departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China and continui...(展开全部)

Empires - vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition - have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. "Empires in World History" departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China and continu...(展开全部)

约翰·托什（John Tosh），英国萨里－罗汉普顿大学历史学教授，主要著作有Manliness And Masculinities In Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays On Gender，Family And Empire；Historians On History：An Anthology等。