For generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidation of imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. Their narratives of the development of imperial governance licensed the brutal suppression of colonial rebellion. Their reimagining of empire during the two world wa...(展开全部)

An award-winning author reconsiders the role of historians in political debate. For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story was still very much in the making. While they wrote of conquest, imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean was consolidated. While they described the development of imperial governance, rebellions we...(展开全部)

With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For those they conquered, and for those who later overthrew them, new histories and narratives were needed to account for the Mongo...(展开全部)

With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For those they conquered, and for those who later overthrew them, new histories and narratives were needed to account for the Mongo...(展开全部)

Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines—from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present—in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in “culin...(展开全部)

Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines—from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present—in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in “culin...(展开全部)

This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the British visual imagination. Chang brings together an unusual group of primary sources to investigate how nineteenth-century Britons looked at and represented Chinese people, places, and things, and how, in the process, ethnographic, ...(展开全部)

王德威 . 國立台灣大學外文系畢業，美國威斯康辛大學麥迪遜校區比較文學博士。曾任教於國立台灣大學、美國哥倫比亞大學東亞系。現任美國哈佛大學東亞語言與文明系Edward C. Henderson講座教授。著有：《從劉鶚到王禎和：中國現代寫實小說散論》、《眾聲喧嘩：三○與八○年代的中國小說》、《閱讀當代小說：台灣．大陸．香港．海外》、《小說中國：晚清到當代的中文小說》、《想像中國的方法：歷史．小說．敘事》、《如何現代，怎樣文學？：十九、二十世紀中文小說新論》、《眾聲喧嘩以後：點評當代中文小說》、《跨世紀風華：當代小說20家》、《被壓抑的現代性：晚清小說新論》、《現代中國小說十講》、《歷史與怪獸》、Fictional Realism in Twentieth-century China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen, Fi...(展开全部)

乔迪·格雷格，一九六〇年生于英国伦敦，英国著名记者、编辑、 社交名流。格雷格家事显赫，曾求学于伊顿公学、牛津大学；曾在多家知名报刊杂志就职，包括《伦敦晚报》、《每日邮报》、《泰特勒》杂志和《星期天邮报》。 译者 屠珀，北京人，经济学硕士，对文学艺术有广泛涉猎；定居 伦敦十二年，现居纽约。

This book provides a new interpretation of the ethical theory of G.W.F. Hegel. The aim is not only to give a new interpretation for specialists in German Idealism, but also to provide an analysis that makes Hegel's ethics accessible for all scholars working in ethical and political philosophy. While Hegel's political philosophy has received a good deal of attention in the liter...(展开全部)