Although normally associated with modernity or modernism, utopia has made a comeback in the age of globalization. Just as the discoveries of the New World and the social upheavals of early modern Europe inspired Thomas More's Utopia and its many descendants, the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for new approaches. The explosion...(展开全部)

"The Geopolitical Aesthetic is a dazzling... distillation and application of the theoretical system he first presented in The Political Unconscious (1981)." The San Francisco Bay Guardian Taking contemporary films from the United States, Russia, Taiwan, France, and the Philippines, The Geopolitical Aesthetic offers a reading of some of the most interesting films of the last dec...(展开全部)

"The Geopolitical Aesthetic is a dazzling... distillation and application of the theoretical system he first presented in The Political Unconscious (1981)." The San Francisco Bay Guardian Taking contemporary films from the United States, Russia, Taiwan, France, and the Philippines, The Geopolitical Aesthetic offers a reading of some of the most interesting films of the last dec...(展开全部)

This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China's early modernity. For late imperial China, there were two forms of encounter with the West; the guns of invading Europeans, and the ledgers by which trade between China and the West was measured and regulated. Even today, China's reactions to the West oscillate between business-driv...(展开全部)

Theirs was a world of exploration and experimentation, of movement and growth - and in this, the thinkers of the Renaissance, poets and scientists alike, followed their countrymen into uncharted territory and unthought space. A book that takes us to the very heart of the enterprise of the Renaissance, this closely focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus...(展开全部)

约翰•达尔文（John Darwin） 英国国家学术院院士，牛津大学全球史研究中心创始主任、历史系荣休教授、纳菲尔德学院研究员，专注于研究帝国的兴衰史，其著作《后帖木儿时代》曾获“沃尔夫森历史奖”。

约翰•达尔文（John Darwin） 英国国家学术院院士，牛津大学全球史研究中心创始主任、历史系荣休教授、纳菲尔德学院研究员，专注于研究帝国的兴衰史，其著作《后帖木儿时代》曾获“沃尔夫森历史奖”。

Samir Amin is one of the world's most profound thinkers about the changing nature of capitalism, North-South relations and issues of development. In this book, he provides us with a powerful understanding of the new and very different era which capitalism has now entered with the collapse of the Soviet model, the triumph of the market and accelerating globalization. His sophist...(展开全部)

作者：（埃及）萨米尔·阿明（samir Amin） 译者：丁开杰 萨米尔·阿明（samir Amin），1931年生于埃及，在巴黎完成高等教育，其所学涉足政治学、统计学和经济学等领域。他对资本主义本质的演变、南北关系和发展理论等问题都有深入研究，从而成为当代一流的激进思想家，在全球享有盛誉。阿明在众多机构担任职务，他一直担任非洲经济发展与规划研究所、联合国非洲规划研究所主任，目前还任位于塞内加尔首都达喀尔的第三世界论坛主席。阿明著述甚丰，最为著名的有《世界范围的积累》（Accumulation On a World Scale）和《不均衡的发展》（Unequal Development）。

Amazon.co.uk Review The near-total triumph of free market capitalism around the world has put a damper on utopian visions, leading many politicians and activists to believe that radical change is impossible, that at best one can hope for slight modifications of the status quo. For Russell Jacoby, this attitude is not so much the result of practicality as it is the product of ex...(展开全部)