Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropriation, Transpacific Displacement opens with a radically new reading of Imagism t...(展开全部)

When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a world that doesn’t stand still, that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marke...(展开全部)

哈佛大學歷史學博士，目前為美國加州大學聖塔克魯茲分校（University of California, Santa Cruz）意識歷史學系榮譽教授，並於2011年當選美國藝術與科學院院士（American Academy of Arts and Sciences），為當代文化反思論述之最重要學者，其跨學科觀點與批判包含人類學與民族誌、田野調查工作、原住民研究、藝術、歷史，博物館學，與文學分析。著有《個人與神話》、《文化的困境》、《路徑：20世紀後期的旅行與翻譯》（1997）、《復返：21世紀成為原住民》（2013）、《人類學邊緣》等書，同時與喬治．馬庫斯（George Marcus）編輯有《書寫文化》。

James Clifford is Professor, Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz.

"The Predicament of Culture" is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in postcolonial contexts. His critique ra...(展开全部)

This book, a prize-winning history of American law in the twentieth century, is a successor to Lawrence Friedman's landmark work A History of American Law. It chronicles the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life and the extent to which social transformation has contributed to significant shifts within the legal system.

A history of American law in the 20th century. It describes the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life. Since 1900 the centre of legal gravity in the United States has shifted from the state to the federal government, with the creation of agencies and programmes ranging from Social Security to the Securities Exchange Commission to the F...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·R.安德森博士，耶鲁大学语言学教授，美国语言学学会主席，国际语言学常设委员会副主席，美国人文与科学院院士。主要著作：《二十世纪音系学》、《非词素词法学》、《附着语素理论面面观》、《杜利特尔医生的幻觉——论动物与人类语言的独特性》。

斯蒂芬·R.安德森博士，耶鲁大学语言学教授，美国语言学学会主席，国际语言学常设委员会副主席，美国人文与科学院院士。主要著作：《二十世纪音系学》、《非词素词法学》、《附着语素理论面面观》、《杜利特尔医生的幻觉——论动物与人类语言的独特性》。

For courses in Twentieth Century Europe. Written by a noted intellectual historian, this concise, interpretive history of twentieth-century European society and civilization surveys the full range of social, political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic events - from pre-World War I to the 1990s.