A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“Salman Rushdie’s great grasp of the human tragicomedy–its dimensions, its absurdities and horrors–has made him one of the most intelligent fiction writers in the English language.”
–Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe
“Fury is a profoundly, ecstatically affirmative work of fiction. It reaffirms Rushdie’s standing . . . at the very front rank of contemporary literary novelists.”
–Baltimore Sun
Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and world-famous dollmaker, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family in London without a word of explanation, and flees for New York. There’s a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of America’s wealth and power, seeking to “erase” himself. But fury is all around him. An astonishing work of explosive energy, Fury is by turns a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a love story of mesmerizing force, and a disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature.
“Rushdie’s ideas–about society, about culture, about politics–are embedded in his stories and in the interlocking momentum with which he tells them. . . . All of Rushdie’s synthesizing energy, the way he brings together ancient myth and old story, contemporary incident and archetypal emotion, transfigures reason into a waking dream.”
–Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Well, here it is, then, his first 3-D, full-volume American novel, finger-snapping, wildly stupefying, often slyly funny, red-blooded and red-toothed. [Fury] twinkles brightly in tragicomic passages.”
–The Miami Herald

《"他者"的声音:吉恩·瑞斯西印度小说中的抵抗话语》试用新历史主义与后殖民主义文论解读英国现当代小说家吉恩。瑞斯的西印度小说（《藻海无边》、《黑暗中的航行》及四个短篇小说）。通过“逆写”英国19世纪的殖民话语场，瑞斯的作品试图改写被欧洲中心主义意识形态不断刻写的殖民历史，从而给那些一度被边缘化和被迫失语的西印度“他者”们以说话的机会。通过质问、挪用、消解欧洲中心主义话语，昔日的“贱民”们终于发出了自己的声音。由于“阈限空间”内部存在的差异，他们的声音表现出多样性特征，而作为一个整体，这些声音则构成了一种强有力的后殖民抵抗话语。
为使其殖民统治合法化并长期维持下去，大英帝国利用各种“经典”文本建构了一个庞大的殖民话语场。在这个话语场中，西印度人被塑造成下贱的“他者”，并被剥夺了说话的权利。作为一种抵抗话语，瑞斯的作品向这个话语场发起了反击，揭发了大英帝国“文明使命”的谎言，暴露了殖民话语内部的矛盾，并深入探讨了后殖民身份问题。由于欧洲对西印度群岛殖民化所导致的文化混杂，瑞斯笔下的克里奥耳白人主人公安托瓦内特与安娜·摩根被迫置身于楼梯井状的“第三度空间”，她们的文化身份也因文化界限的模糊而无法得到清楚的定义。这种摇摆不定的“夹缝”处境给她们带来了痛苦的经历，但同时也为抵抗以自我／他者二元对立为基础的殖民表述提供了有利地位。在与殖民者的交锋中，.以克里斯托芬为代表的克里奥耳黑人与混血人种则以加勒比地域文化为根基，以奥比巫术、反殖烈火、故意沉默、身体、克里奥耳英语等为武器直面殖民霸权，用暴力与非暴力革命方式实践着自己的反抗。这些抵抗话语为挑战欧洲中心话语、改写殖民历史奠定了坚实的基础。

This revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It highlights the importance of shipping, port cities, and maritime culture to the political struggles of the 1920s and 30s. Port cities such as Jeddah, Shanghai, and Batavia were hotbeds for the spread of nationalism, communism, pan-Islamism, and pan-Asianism, and became important centers of opposition to Dutch imperialism through the circulation of passengers, laborers, and religious pilgrims. In response to growing maritime threats, the Dutch government and shipping companies attempted to secure oceanic spaces and maintain hegemony abroad through a web of control. Techniques included maritime policing networks, close collaboration with British and French surveillance entities ashore, and maintaining segregation on ships, which was meant to 'teach' those on board their position within imperial hierarchies. This innovative study exposes how anti-colonialism was shaped not only within the terrestrial confines of metropole and colony, but across the transoceanic spaces in between.

How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that recognizing "colonial presence" may have as much to do with how the connections between colonial histories and the present are expected to look as it does with how they are expected to be. In Duress, Stoler considers what methodological renovations might serve to write histories that yield neither to smooth continuities nor to abrupt epochal breaks. Capturing the uneven, recursive qualities of the visions and practices that imperial formations have animated, Stoler works through a set of conceptual and concrete reconsiderations that locate the political effects and practices that imperial projects produce: occluded histories, gradated sovereignties, affective security regimes, "new" racisms, bodily exposures, active debris, and carceral archipelagos of colony and camp that carve out the distribution of inequities and deep fault lines of duress today.

The story of a rich, half-Japanese beauty in Batavia and her tempestuous divorce from a cold, tough colonial official. Leonard Blusse's new book is...for the light it casts on love and life on a colonial frontier, the most illuminating since 'The Cheese and the Worms'.

Forced convict labor provided the Portuguese with solutions to the growing criminal population at home and the lack of infrastructure in Angola and Mozambique. In Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, Timothy J. Coates examines the role of large numbers of convicts in Portuguese Africa from 1800 until 1932. This work examines the numbers, rationale, and realities of convict labor (largely) in Angola during this period, but Mozambique is a secondary area, as well as late colonial times in Brazil.
This is a unique, first study of an experiment in convict labor in Africa directed by a European power; it will be welcomed by scholars of Africa and New Imperialism, as well as those interested in law and labor.

Spanish colonization of Latin America came to an end in the early nineteenth century as, one by one, countries from Bolivia to Chile declared their independence. But soon another empire exerted control over the region through markets and trade dealings—Britain. Merchants, developers, and politicians seized on the opportunity to bring the newly independent nations under the sway of British financial power, subjecting them to an informal empire that lasted into the twentieth century.
In The Forms of Informal Empire, Jessie Reeder reveals that this economic imperial control was founded on an audacious conceptual paradox: that Latin America should simultaneously be both free and unfree. As a result, two of the most important narrative tropes of empire—progress and family—grew strained under the contradictory logic of an informal empire. By reading a variety of texts in English and Spanish—including Simón Bolívar's letters and essays, poetry by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and novels by Anthony Trollope and Vicente Fidel López—Reeder challenges the conventional wisdom that informal empire was simply an extension of Britain's vast formal empire. In her compelling formalist account of the structures of imperial thought, informal empire emerges as a divergent, intractable concept throughout the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.
The Forms of Informal Empire goes where previous studies of informal empire and the British nineteenth century have not, offering nuanced and often surprising close readings of British and Latin American texts in their original languages. Reeder's comparative approach provides a new vision of imperial power and makes a forceful case for expanding the archive of British literary studies.

Introduction
This book contributes to global history by examining the connected histories of German and United States colonial empires from the early nineteenth century to the Nazi era. It looks at multiple and multidirectional flows, transfers, and circulations of ideas, people, and practices as Germany and the US were embedded in, and created by, an interconnected world of empires. This relationship was not exceptional, but emblematic of the diverse entanglements that created colonial globality.
Colonial entanglements between Germany and the United States took on many forms, but these shared and intersecting histories have been underanalyzed. Traditionally, Germany and the United States have been understood to have taken, respectively, an authoritarian and liberal path into modernity. But there is no neat dichotomy, as the contributors to this book illustrate. There are many more similarities than have previously been appreciated – and they are the result of multilayered entanglements made visible via conquest, settler societies, racialization, and rule of difference. Building on present historiographies of empires, colonialism, and globalization, this book introduces new analytical possibilities for examining these two relatively understudied empires alongside each other, as well as at their intersections.

Yorkshireman Lionel Abson was the longest-surviving European stationed in West Africa in the eighteenth century. He reached William’s Fort a t Ouidah on the Slave Coast as a trader in 1767, took over the English fort in 1770, and remained in charge until his death in 1803. He avoided the ‘white man’s grave’ for thirty-six years.
Along the way he had three sons with an African woman, the eldest partly schooled in England, and a daughter named Sally. When Abson died, royal lackeys kidnapped his children. Sally was placed in the king’s harem; her brothers vanished. That king became so unpopular as a result that the people of Dahomey disowned him.
Abson also mastered the local language and became an historian. After only two years as fort chief, he was part of the king’s delegation to make peace with an enemy, a unique event in centuries of Dahomean history.
This singular book recounts the remarkable life of a key figure in an ignominious period of European and African history, offering a microcosm of the lives of Europeans in eighteenth-century West Africa, and their relationships with and attitudes towards those they met there.

What happens to thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical pedigree? In this powerfully honed polemic, Hamid Dabashi argues that they are invariably marginalised, patronised and misrepresented.
Challenging, pugnacious and stylish, Can Non-Europeans Think? forges a new perspective in postcolonial theory by examining how intellectual debate continues to reinforce a colonial regime of knowledge, albeit in a new guise. Based on years of scholarship and activism, this insightful collection of philosophical explorations is certain to unsettle and delight in equal measure.

For centuries Europeans ruled vast portions of the world, as inhabitants of west European countries sailed to distant continents and took possession of territories whose societies and economies they set out to change. How and why did these farflung empires form, persist, and finally fall? David Abernethy addresses these questions in this magisterial survey of the rise and decline of European overseas empires.
Abernethy identifies broad patterns across time and space, interweaving them with fascinating details of cross-cultural encounters. He argues that relatively autonomous profit-making, religious, and governmental institutions enabled west European countries to launch triple assaults on other societies. Indigenous people also played a role in their eventual subjugation by inviting Europeans to intervene in their power struggles. Abernethy finds that imperial decline was often the unanticipated result of wars among major powers. Postwar crises over colonies’ unmet expectations empowered movements that eventually took territories as diverse as the thirteen British North American colonies, Spain’s South American possessions, India, the Dutch East Indies, Vietnam, and the Gold Coast to independence.
In advancing a theory of imperialism that includes European and non-European actors, and in analyzing economic, social, and cultural as well as political dimensions of empire, Abernethy helps account for Europe’s long occupation of global center stage. He also sheds light on key features of today’s postcolonial world and the legacies of empire, concluding with an insightful approach to the moral evaluation of colonialism.

《全球通史18:公元1850-1900殖民时代》为该丛书中的一册，供广大喜欢历史的朋友阅读。从史前文明到20世纪，从国家之间的战争到家庭生活的变迁，纵横交错之间，过去的历史回到我们身边，看似触手可及，读来厚重深远。《全球通史》的责任编辑说，职业生涯中能遇到这样的书是幸福的。美术编辑说，一生中永远忘不了这些精彩的图片。他们预言：这套书会让中国的作者知道，原来历史可以这样写；这套书会让中国的读者知道，原来历史可以这样好读。

When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. Drawing on this remarkable archive, Russell Shorto has created a gripping narrative–a story of global sweep centered on a wilderness called Manhattan–that transforms our understanding of early America.
The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own.

“国家社会科学基金项目优秀成果”
本书是21世纪以来中国少数民族文学理论与批评取得的重要成果，是“中华多民族文学史观”研究的集成之作。作者在全面阐释多民族文学史观的理论基础、基本内涵、结构要素、现实价值和学术意义的基础上，重新探讨了中国文学的时间、空间、中国文学史的国家知识属性等中国文学研究的基本问题，总结了多民族文学史观与中国历史哲学转型的关系，考察了世界主要多民族国家的文化政策与多元文学生态。本书的“多民族文学”不是少数民族内部的“多民族文学”，而是指多民族国家的多民族文学的客观形态。因此，本书的立意不仅在于促进中国少数民族文学研究的理论转向，更在于立足多民族文学史观的理论基点，重新审视中国文学多民族、多历史、多传统、多形态、多语种的特征以及冲融交汇、多元并存、共同发展的历史规律，进而促进中国文学研究范式的根本转型和世界意义上的文学话语革新鼎固。因此，世界视野、国家意识与中国多民族文学研究的中国话语体系建构，是本书的理论创新和学术贡献。

本书从侯赛因王朝历任贝伊谈起，着重叙述了法帝国主义在突尼斯建立“保护权”以前的突尼斯二十年的历史，其中对当时欧洲几个帝国主义国家，诸如法国、英国、意大利对突尼斯的争夺和经济上的渗透，都有比较详细的描写，对突尼斯人民反抗外来侵略和本国发动势力的斗争也有所叙述。