An unprecedented exploration of the relationship between the Mughal emperor and his subjects in the space of the Mughal empire's capital, The King and the People overturns an axiomatic assumption in the history of premodern South Asia: that the urban masses were merely passive objects of rule and remained unable to express collective political aspirations until the coming of co...(展开全部)

July 4， 1976<br >NEW YORK HARBOR<br >Tall sails scraped the deep purple nigl~ as rockets burst， flared， and flourished<br >red， white， and blue over the stoic Statue of Liberty. The whole world was<br >watching， it seemed; the whole world was there. Ships from fifty-five nations had<br >poured sailors into Manhattan to join the throngs， counted in the millions， ...(展开全部)

By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously? In answering these qu...(展开全部)

The forms of liberal government that emerged after World War II are in the midst of a profound crisis. In I Am the People, Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for “the people.” To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee traces the twentieth-century trajectory of the welfa...(展开全部)

史谦德（David Strand），美国狄金森学院查尔斯·A.德纳（Charles A. Dana）政治学教授。1979年获美国哥伦比亚大学博士学位。著有《北京的人力车夫：1920年代的市民与政治》《未竟的共和：近代中国的言行表率》等。 周书垚，美国德州农工大学教育学硕士。译有《上海秘密战》《拜占庭的成就》等。 袁剑，中央民族大学民族学与社会学学院副教授，（教育部基地）中央民族大学中国少数民族研究中心边疆民族研究所所长。著有《边疆的背影：拉铁摩尔与中国学术》，译有《烧钱：中国人生活世界中的物质精神》《危险的边疆：游牧帝国与中国》《假想的”满大人”：同情、现代性与中国疼痛》等。 周育民，上海师范大学历史系教授、博士生导师。著有《中国帮会史》（与邵雍合著）、《晚清财政与社会变迁》、《史海试勺——晚清史管窥》、《上海通史》（第六卷）等。翻译或校译《中国民间...(展开全部)

In the 1920s, revolution, war, and imperialist aggression brought chaos to China. Many of the dramatic events associated with this upheaval took place in or near China's cities. Bound together by rail, telegraph, and a shared urban mentality, cities like Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing formed an arena in which the great issues of the day--the quest for social and civil peace, ...(展开全部)

"Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law" is a historical analysis of competing doctrines of constitutional law during the Weimar Republic. It chronicles the creation of a new constitutional jurisprudence both adequate to the needs of a modern welfare state and based on the principle of popular sovereignty. Peter C Caldwell explores the legal nature of d...(展开全部)

This collaborative volume offers the first historical reconstruction of the concept of popular sovereignty from antiquity to the twentieth century. First formulated between the late sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the various early modern conceptions of the doctrine were heavily indebted to Roman reflection on forms of government and Athenian ideas of popular power. Th...(展开全部)

On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Moghuls rests.” Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, was a mystic, an accomplished poet and ...(展开全部)

In this evocative study of the fall of Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in steep decline. Nonetheless, Zafar—a mystic, poet, and calligrapher ...(展开全部)