The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China presents a major new approach in research on the formation of the Qing empire (1636–1912) in early modern China. Focusing on the symbolic practices that structured domination and legitimized authority, the book challenges traditional understandings of state-formation, and argues that in addition to war making and institution build...(展开全部)

The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China presents a major new approach in research on the formation of the Qing empire (1636–1912) in early modern China. Focusing on the symbolic practices that structured domination and legitimized authority, the book challenges traditional understandings of state-formation, and argues that in addition to war making and institution build...(展开全部)

The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China presents a major new approach in research on the formation of the Qing empire (1636–1912) in early modern China. Focusing on the symbolic practices that structured domination and legitimized authority, the book challenges traditional understandings of state-formation, and argues that in addition to war making and institution build...(展开全部)

The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China presents a major new approach in research on the formation of the Qing empire (1636–1912) in early modern China. Focusing on the symbolic practices that structured domination and legitimized authority, the book challenges traditional understandings of state-formation, and argues that in addition to war making and institution build...(展开全部)

Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, RITES OF SPRING probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I -- from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," as Modris Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point . . ....(展开全部)

【作者简介】 莫德里斯•埃克斯斯坦是多伦多大学历史系荣休教授。他受人称道的畅销书《春之祭》曾在九个国家出版，并荣获华莱士•K. 弗格森奖和延龄草图书奖，还被《环球邮报》和《纽约时报》列为当年的优秀图书之一。《漫步天明后》(Walking Since Daybreak)也是一部全国畅销书，获得过皮尔逊作家信托基金非虚构图书奖，并被《泰晤士报文学增刊》、《洛杉矶时报》和《环球邮报》列为2000年优秀图书之一。他备受期待的《春之祭》续篇《太阳舞》(Solar Dance)也已出版。 【译者简介】 李晓江，北京大学哲学博士。爱书。教书、读书之余，亦以译书为乐。译有《失败的帝国：从斯大林到戈尔巴乔夫》《朱可夫：斯大林的将军》《斯大林的战争》。

【作者简介】 莫德里斯•埃克斯斯坦是多伦多大学历史系荣休教授。他受人称道的畅销书《春之祭》曾在九个国家出版，并荣获华莱士•K. 弗格森奖和延龄草图书奖，还被《环球邮报》和《纽约时报》列为当年的优秀图书之一。《漫步天明后》(Walking Since Daybreak)也是一部全国畅销书，获得过皮尔逊作家信托基金非虚构图书奖，并被《泰晤士报文学增刊》、《洛杉矶时报》和《环球邮报》列为2000年优秀图书之一。他备受期待的《春之祭》续篇《太阳舞》(Solar Dance)也已出版。 【译者简介】 李晓江，北京大学哲学博士。爱书。教书、读书之余，亦以译书为乐。译有《失败的帝国：从斯大林到戈尔巴乔夫》《朱可夫：斯大林的将军》《斯大林的战争》。

"The Golden Dawn" by Israel Regardie is considered by many to be the book that started the modern occult movement. The original Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which started in the late 1800s, borrowed from a wide variety of occult traditions o Kabalah, Tarot, Geomancy, Enochian Magic, Theosophy, Freemasonry, Paganism, Astrology, and many more o and created a unique and viab...(展开全部)