路易・乔鹿是一位地道的法国巴黎人，每天的生活如钟表般精确无误。在杜乐丽花园，乔鹿邂逅了塞内加尔来的小贩玛玛都，他一身黑皮肤，如乌鸦的羽毛般发亮，美得惊人。遇到玛玛都，乔鹿孩提时代的非洲往事，如那非洲午后的滂沱大雨般临头落下，无处可躲。乔鹿知道一切无可回避，童年的非洲正在召唤他。 五十年前，几内亚还是法国的殖民地。乔鹿出生于几内亚，七岁时又在那儿度过了一段美好的时光。“怀旧就是莫名所以的欲望。”《小王子》的作者安东尼・圣修伯里如是说。乔鹿寻觅的就是这样的怀旧情绪。他选择了政治最为稳定的塞内加尔来重温他的童年记忆，展开了一段相隔五十年的非洲回溯之旅。 乔鹿的向导玛玛都引领着他游览达喀尔、约夫、圣路易、戈雷岛、凯杜古和西非内陆。这样的两人组合令人称奇，巴黎街头的小贩和来到达喀尔的旅人在旅途中无可避免地产生了两种不同文化的碰撞。在路上，白皮肤旅人和黑皮肤小贩各抒己见，让人从不同的立场和角度看到了他们对非洲现状的探讨及分析。从巴黎到达喀尔，注定这是一趟麻烦的旅途，也是一趟千金难换的真正旅行。

This is Chinua Achebe's classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. Combining a richly African story with the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity, Achebe here shows that he is "gloriously gifted, with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent." -- Nadine Gordimer

The Imperial Security State explores an important but under-explored dimension of British imperialism – its information system and the close links between military knowledge and the maintenance of empire. James Hevia's innovative study focuses on route books and military reports produced by the British Indian Army military intelligence between 1880 and 1940. He shows that together these formed a renewable and authoritative archive that was used to train intelligence officers, to inform civilian policy makers and to provide vital information to commanders as they approached the battlefield. The strategic, geographical, political and ethnographical knowledge that was gathered not only framed imperial strategies towards colonised areas to the east but also produced the very object of intervention: Asia itself. Finally, the book addresses the long-term impact of the security regime, revealing how elements of British colonial knowledge have continued to influence contemporary tactics of counterinsurgency in twenty-first-century Iraq and Afghanistan. - Innovative study of British military intelligence before World War One - Sheds new light on the close links between empire-building and intelligence - Reveals the long-term origins of contemporary counterinsurgency tactics "This book is a groundbreaking study of the rise of the British imperial security regime in the 19th century. James L. Hevia’s mastery of rare military archives demystifies the trope of the Great Game and provides an extraordinarily detailed analysis of how the geopolitical boundaries of Asia were produced through a proliferation of route books, maps and statistics, and other apparati of imperial intelligence networks. His scrutiny of the imperial past makes the contemporary security-obsessed American empire supremely legible." Lydia H. Liu, author of The Clash of Empires "Clearly written, well researched, and persuasively argued, Hevia's latest book will engage a range of readers. Scholars of diplomatic history will find especially valuable Hevia's insights into the growth and development of military intelligence as the other major component of the developing European security regimes in Europe and in Asia. Historians of Asia will also gain much from his research, linking as it does south, central, and eastern Asia into the British imperial network of intelligence gathering and control." Michael H. Fisher, H-Diplo "… an elegant, thoughtful and often provocative analysis of how security imperatives dictated the collection, analysis, and dissemination of military information … The Imperial Security State makes a persuasive and passionate argument for the centrality of military intelligence in not only developing strategies to intervene in Asia but more significantly in defining what Asia actually meant then and now. It is a very compelling account, lucidly presented, solidly researched and theoretically sophisticated." Douglas M. Peers, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History "Recommended." Choice

Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these colonial arrangements across China’s landscape defies systematic characterization. This book investigates the complexities and subtleties of colonialism in China during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, the contributors examine the interaction between localities and forces of globalization that shaped the particular colonial experiences characterizing much of China’s experience at this time. In the process it is clear that an emphasis on interaction, synergy and hybridity can add much to an understanding of colonialism in Twentieth Century China based on the simple binaries of colonizer and colonized, of aggressor and victim, and of a one-way transfer of knowledge and social understanding. To provide some kind of order to the analysis, the chapters in this volume deal in separate sections with colonial institutions of hybridity, colonialism in specific settings, the social biopolitics of colonialism, colonial governance, and Chinese networks in colonial environments. Bringing together an international team of experts, Twentieth Century Colonialism and China is an essential resource for students and scholars of modern Chinese history and colonialism and imperialism.

本书从一种全新的视角来观察德国占领并统治青岛的殖民历史和社会。这是一部观点突出的著作，作者以翔实的史料为基础阐述这样的观点：在殖民历史中，历史的主体由殖民统治者、殖民地人民以及两者的交合构成，任何单方面的考察和研究都不能公正地叙述殖民时期的中德关系。据此，作者认为，德国在中国的胶澳租界是殖民统治与抵抗侵略、文化使命与民族自强等等彼此对抗的力量相互作用的结果；尤其中国方面的抗争和顺应、丧失和建设在这种相互作用中扮演了主要角色。这一点在以往的德国汉学、史学研究中没有给予充分的重视。另外，这部著作运用“后现代主义”理论，使用学科交叉的方法，对研究界基本定型的有关观念、方法及学科领域的划分等等进行了新的“解构”式探讨，通过分析德意志帝国的殖民统治措施，分析中国政府和人民直接的或迂回的抵抗方式，进而有理有据地论述了1897—1914年中德两国之间围绕胶州湾问题在军事、政治、宗教及文化等方面所展开的相互接触、相互认识和相互作用。

《欧洲殖民帝国(1815-1919)》内容简介：作者将15—18世纪的欧洲历史作为背景，着重阐述欧洲殖民主义在整个19世纪的发展历程，论述涉及人口、经济、政治与文化等重大主题。《欧洲殖民帝国(1815-1919)》共八章节，内容包括导言：欧洲的扩张（1492—1815）、长期发展（1815—1919）、殖民地的发展（1815—1870）、现代帝国主义（1870—1914）普通特征、欧洲帝国主义在非洲等。