To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing and unprecedented series of changes. Cities grew vast; there were revolutions in transportation, communication, science, and work--all while a growing religious skepticism rendered the intellectual landscape increasingly unrecognizable. It was an exhilarating time, and as a result, most of the countries in t...(展开全部)

From a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most ancient, colorful, and multifaceted of cities. The seat of pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander to Saladin to Napoleon, Cairo--nicknamed "the Victorious"--has never ceased reinventing herself. With intimate knowlege, humor, and affection,...(展开全部)

In this highly original novel Slauerhoff (1898-1936) reprises major themes from his poetry (erotic obsession, nomadism, persecution and confused identity) within a more ambitious formal framework. The book interweaves three narratives, separated in time but linked by a common association with the 'forbidden kingdom' of China. The first of these is the brutal and bloody founding...(展开全部)

There were two Norman Conquests. John Julius Norwich is writing about the 'other' one, the conquest of Sicily. When on Christmas Day 1130, Roger de Hauteville had himself crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was as brilliant as it was cosmopolitan; to an i...(展开全部)

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well. In March 2009, Agamben was invited to speak in Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in the presence of the bishop of Paris and a number of...(展开全部)

埃莉诺•弗莱克斯纳（Eleanor Flexner），生于肯塔基州的乔治敦，是美国杰出的独立学者，妇女研究领域的先驱。她从小就显露出了对历史研究的浓厚兴趣，从斯沃斯莫尔学院毕业后，她继续在牛津大学深造。弗莱克斯纳于1936年加入共产党，从事社会和政治工作，这激发了她对女性议题的关注。整个40年代，弗莱克斯纳的生活完全被政治、工作和组织活动填满。这些事让她越来越了解工人的艰辛斗争，越发意识到性别歧视的严重性，也让她看到了社会运动的艰巨性。50年代初，弗莱克斯纳的想法从写一本关于女性历史的书，逐渐细化为写一本关于妇女参政权运动的书。在写作本书的过程中，她找到了一种激情，找到了贯穿参政权运动的矢志不渝的决心、令人心碎的挫折感，以及无与伦比的兴奋之情。《一个世纪的抗争：美国女权运动史》不仅为读者提供了关于妇女权利斗争细致而精彩的叙述，而且呈现了从殖民时代开始...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

Volume II surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean during the nineteenth century, a period of massive international and intercontinental movements of labor, capital, and commodities. The United States and Canada began the period as small but vigorous societies; the United States ended the period as the world's premier economic power. Five mai...(展开全部)