The third edition of Consumerism in World History explores the nature of consumerism and its evolution, with particular emphasis on the modern “consumer revolution” and its global scope.
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著者：Jie-Hyun Lim
出版社： Columbia University Press
発売日： 2025年03月30日
Nationalism today depends on the perception of victimhood. The historical memory of past suffering endows nationalist movements with political legitimacy and a sense of moral superiority. Koreans re……続きを見る
Casuistry, the practice of resolving moral problems by applying a logical framework, has had a much larger historical presence before and since it was given a name in the Renaissance. The contributo……続きを見る
著者：Michael Wolff
出版社： Little, Brown Book Group
発売日： 2025年02月25日
"He is FAKE NEWS, a total LOSER, and no one should waste their time or money in buying this boring and obviously fictitious book!" Donald Trump, President of the United States
"Gripping-a veritable ……続きを見る
Introduction by Luca Dotti and Foreword by Giambattista Valli
A gorgeous, sophisticated celebration of Audrey Hepburn’s lifelong connection to the City of Light, featuring all the places in Paris sh……続きを見る
著者：Jeremy Black
出版社： Taylor & Francis
発売日： 2016年05月13日
It was during the course of the eighteenth century that Britain's status as a major maritime and commercial power was forged, shaping the political, economic and military policies of the nation for ……続きを見る
A "vastly entertaining" history of urban centersーfrom the ancient world to today ( Time).
From the earliest example in the Ancient Near East to today's teeming centers of compressed existence, such……続きを見る
A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 1700-1918 proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the spaces, societies, and institutions that existed on the territory of today's Northe……続きを見る
This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia ……続きを見る
'Gonzo brilliance ... unique and highly entertaining' Financial Times
**'Revelatory reading' Adam Tooze, author of Crashed
'After reading Quinn Slobodian's new book, you are not likely to think abou……続きを見る
著者：Joel Mokyr
出版社： Oxford University Press
発売日： 2016年05月31日
In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than others, and why do……続きを見る
A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian.
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The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria an……続きを見る
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early Church.
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著者：Kerry Ward
出版社： Cambridge University Press
発売日： 2015年11月10日
This book argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively ……続きを見る
著者：William H. McNeill
出版社： The University of Chicago Press
発売日： 2009年07月30日
"The most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind." ーH. R. Trevor-Roper, The New York Times Book Review
The Rise of the West, win……続きを見る
A “brilliant” (Los Angeles Review of Books) history of accounting, showing how financial and political accountability has shaped the rise and fall of nations and empires
Whether building a road or f……続きを見る
Only four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not fulfil the four basic requirements of democracy: free and fair elections, active particip……続きを見る
Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores e……続きを見る
**From an award-winning historian, the definitive account of the golden age of Romeーan ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness
“Rarely has the distant past seemed so vividly alive.” ー……続きを見る
The Routledge History of Western Empires is an all new volume focusing on the history of Western Empires in a comparative and thematic perspective. Comprising of thirty-three original chapters arran……続きを見る
著者：Robert C. Allen
出版社： Cambridge University Press
発売日： 2015年11月10日
Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolut……続きを見る
Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today's global turbulence have a c……続きを見る
Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And w……続きを見る
