弗洛里安·兹纳涅茨基（１８８２—１９５８），波兰出生的美国社会学家、诗人，１９５３年曾当选为美国社会学协会会长。早年研修哲学，后专事社会学。其社会学体系跨越欧陆与英美，受新康德主义、历史主义和实用主义的影响，注重将人类世界作为一个文化世界来研究，认为“文化世界是一个价值世界，而非事物世界”。他有关社会学理论及方法的著作，在社会学成为独立学科的过程中，起到过承前启后的作用。此外，他还是倡导实地调查的先驱人物和波兰农民文化研究的权威。

Vito Tanzi offers a truly comprehensive treatment of the economic role of the state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a historical and world perspective. The book addresses the fundamental question of what governments should do, or have attempted to do, in economic activities in past and recent periods. It also speculates on what they are likely or may be forced ...(展开全部)

Joshua A. Fogel is professor of history at York University, Toronto, and a specialist in the history of cultural and political ties between China and Japan in the modern era.

The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in cultural and art history. Yet the traffic in artistic practices and practitioners between China and Japan remains an understudied field. In this volume, an international group of scho...(展开全部)

The experience of becoming an ex is common to most people in modern society. Unlike individuals in earlier cultures who usually spent their entire lives in one marriage, one career, one religion, one geographic locality, people living in today's world tend to move in and out of many roles in the course of a lifetime. During the past decade there has been persistent interest in ...(展开全部)

作者簡介 菲利浦．鮑靈 Philip Bowring 記者兼作家，自1973年起便活躍於亞洲。曾任《遠東經濟評論》（Far Eastern Economic Review）總編輯，也是《金融時報》（Financial Times）與《華爾街日報》（Wall Street Journal）特派員，《國際先驅論壇報》（International Herald Tribune）專欄作家，並為《衛報》（Guardian）與《南華早報》供稿。畢業於劍橋大學歷史系，研究亞洲海洋歷史與經濟。 譯者簡介 馮奕達 專職譯者。政治大學歷史學系世界史組碩士。譯有《天空地圖》、《帝國何以成為帝國》、《大人的地圖學》、《全球史的再思考》、《帝國與料理》、《帝國城市》、《不曾結束的一戰》、《殖民之後？：臺灣困境、「中國」霸權與全球化》、《獻給國王的世界》、《職人新經...(展开全部)

An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America’s role in the world—from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and Balkan Ghosts As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the countr...(展开全部)

Nusantaria – often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' – is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to an island realm, is here adapted to become Nusantaria - denoting a slightly wider world but one with a single linguistic, cultural and trading base. Nusantaria encompa...(展开全部)

The "global community" is a term we take for granted today. But how did the global community, both as an idea and as a reality, originate and develop over time? This book examines this concept by looking at the emergence, growth, and activities of international organizations--both governmental and nongovernmental--from the end of the nineteenth century to today. Akira Iriye, on...(展开全部)