All over the planet, urban growth is taking place in delta and coastal areas. In the Netherlands, there is an inextricable link between hydraulic engineering, urban design, and nation building. To what extent can the Dutch experience serve as a model for other urbanised delta areas? Han Meyer, professor of urbanism at TU Delft, examines how this relationship has emerged and suc...(展开全部)

Ronald P. Toby argues that this isolationism was by no means so complete as traditionally supposed. He demonstrates that the Tokugawa shoguns conducted a foreign policy that established the shogunate's legitimacy, preserved Japan's security in an unstable environment, and buttressed her ideological pretensions to centrality in an East Asian order independent of the Chinese worl...(展开全部)

黄宗智（Philip C.C.Huang），加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶校区（University of California，Los Angeles）历史系教授（1966—2004年），中国研究中心创办主任（1986～1995年），Modem China创刊编辑（1975年至今）。主要著作有《华北小农经济与社会变迁》、《经验与理论：中国社会、经济与法律的实践历史研究》，以及法律史的三卷本：《清代的法律、社会与文化：民法的表达与实践》、《法典、习俗与司法实践：清代与民国的比较》和《过去和现在：中国民事法律实践的探索》。

黄宗智（Philip C.C.Huang），加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶校区（University of California，Los Angeles）历史系教授（1966—2004年），中国研究中心创办主任（1986～1995年），Modem China创刊编辑（1975年至今）。主要著作有《华北小农经济与社会变迁》、《经验与理论：中国社会、经济与法律的实践历史研究》，以及法律史的三卷本：《清代的法律、社会与文化：民法的表达与实践》、《法典、习俗与司法实践：清代与民国的比较》和《过去和现在：中国民事法律实践的探索》。

The very form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization. Featuring nine of the leading scholars in the field, this innovative exploration of these transformations develops an ethnographic methodology and theoretical apparatus to assess perceptions of power in three regions where state reform and violence have been particularly dram...(展开全部)

Leading economists address the ongoing challenges to economics in theory and practice in a time of political and economic crises. More than a decade of financial crises, sovereign debt problems, political conflict, and rising xenophobia and protectionism has left the global economy unsettled and the ability of economics as a discipline to account for episodes of volatility unce...(展开全部)

贾恩弗朗哥·波齐（1934-），出生于意大利，获得加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校社会学博士学位，先后在意大利、英国和美国等大学任教，期间在北美、欧洲、澳大利亚游历讲学，目前为意大利特伦托大学社会学教授。波齐的教学和研究兴趣主要为近现代国家理论、古典社会理论。代表性著作有《近代国家的发展》、《国家：本质、发展与前景》、《权力的形成》、《涂尔干》等。

Description Contents Resources Courses About the Authors The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important (some would argue the most important) determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the d...(展开全部)

In this detailed study of the development of the Japanese railroad industry during the Meiji period, Steven Ericson explores the economic role of government and the nature of state-business relations during Japan's modern transformation. Ericson challenges the tendency of current scholarship to minimize the roles of the Japanese government and commercial banks in Meiji industri...(展开全部)