Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque ofAfrica encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: tojudge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreignreligions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders andmythical history) upon the progress of civilization. From V. S. Naipaul: “For my travel books I travel on a theme. Andthe theme of The Masque of Africa is African belief. I beginin Uganda, at the center of the continent, do Ghana and Nigeria,the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and end at the bottom of the continent,in South Africa. My theme is belief, not political or economicallife; and yet at the bottom of the continent the politicalrealities are so overwhelming that they have to be taken intoaccount. “Perhaps an unspoken aspect of my inquiry was the possibility ofthe subversion of old Africa by the ways of the outside world. Thetheme held until I got to the South, when the clash of the two waysof thinking and believing became far too one-sided. The skyscrapersof J

In this one-of-a-kind atlas, scores of archival maps anddozens of newly created maps trace the battles, political turmoil,and great themes of America’s most violent and pivotal clash ofarms. From the Antebellum South to Fort Sumter, the assassinationof Abraham Lincoln, and the fitful peace of Reconstruction,National Geographic’s Atlas of the Civil War displays eye-openingmaps—and a gripping, self-contained story—on every spread. Eighty-five rare period maps, many seen here for the first time,offer the cartographic history of a land at war with itself: from19th-century campaign maps surveying whole regions and strategiesto vintage battlefield charts used by Union and Confederategenerals alike, along with commercial maps produced for anews-hungry public, and comprehensive Theater of War maps. In 35innovative views created especially for this book, the key momentsof major battles are pinpointed by National Geographic’saward-winning cartographers using satellite data to render theterrain with astonish

姚广孝是元末明初杰出的佛教人物，与姚广孝相关的历史遗迹，如姚广孝墓塔、天宁寺、汇通祠、永乐大钟、《永乐大典》等，多成为北京乃至全国的重要文物。姚广孝在政治、军事、文学、科技诸方面也有巨大成就，尤以参与策划“靖难之役”、辅佐燕王朱棣夺取帝位而名垂史册，后又拜为明两代帝王之师，成为中国历史上著名的“缁衣宰相”。由郑永华编著的《姚广孝史事研究》通过发掘与利用姚广孝的诗文、著述，以及碑刻、实录、文集等各种原始史料，对姚广孝的生平与交往进行了全面研究，就相关史事进行了详细考辨，更正了长期以来的讹误，为研究姚广孝这一重要的宗教与政治历史人物奠定了基础，具有较大的学术价值。又北京还长期流传许多与姚广孝相关的历史与人文传说，深入研究与北京历史有关的人物、弘扬北京历史文化，对建设“人文北京”

In Modernism and Cultural Conflict, Ann Ardis questionscommonly held views of the radical nature of literary modernism.She positions the coterie of writers centred around Pound, Eliotand Joyce as one among a number of groups in Britain intent onredefining the cultural work of literature at the turn of thetwentieth century. Ardis emphasizes the ways in which modernistssecured their cultural centrality, she documents their support ofmainstream attitudes toward science, their retreat from a supposedvaluing of scandalous sexuality in the wake of Oscar Wilde's trialsin 1895, and the conservative cultural and sexual politics maskedby their radical formalist poetics. She recovers key instances ofopposition to modernist self-fashioning in British socialism andfeminism of the period. Ardis goes on to consider how literarymodernism's rise to aesthetic prominence paved the way for theinstitutionalization of English studies through the devaluation ofother aesthetic practices.

This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia ofthe World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages ofMesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum, for the convenience of students andspecialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuseson an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closelyrelated varieties of a language. Providing a full de*ivepresentation, each of these chapters examines the writingsystem(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of thatlanguage, and places the language within its proper linguistic andhistorical context. The volume brings together an internationalarray of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient languagestudy. While designed primarily for scholars and students oflinguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studiestake them into the realm of ancient language.

A unique comparative study of colonial encounters between theSpanish in New Mexico and the Dutch in New York. Nan A. Rothschild examines the process of colonialism in twoseparate areas of 17th-century North America seeking to answerseveral key questions: Where did each group live vis-à-vis theother? How entangled were their respective material cultures? Howdid these situations change over time? What was the nature andextent of their economic relationships? She points out thatcolonialism has been greatly understudied, is highly variable, andthat the comparison of different case studies can bring newunderstanding to the details of each case and to understandingvariation in colonial processes at large. The book transcendssimple comparisons because of its strong grounding in thetheoretical literature of colonialism. New data from many different sources are brought together here,including much that is only available in unpublished reports, sitefiles, and archives. Using a framework that conside

《吳越題銘研究》全面汇集了传世和出土的吴越铭刻数据，分为一、吴王室铜器题铭；二、越王室铜器题铭；三、其他吴越题铭。书中在总结学界研究的基础上，充分运用古文字学、古文献学、历史考古学的方法，系统梳理并考证了从吴王寿梦到夫差各代吴王室的题铭资料60余种，从越王允常、句践以至于越王无颛各代越王室的题铭100余种。书中对吴越王名称和吴越题铭的释读、器物的研究提出了许多新的见解，例如吴王虘矣工吴即吴王余祭另一名戴吴，邗王是野戈是晋人为夫差作器，新考释出了允常、诸咎、初无余、无颛等越王所作的器物，因此形成了迄今为止最完整的吴越铭刻序列。书中部份资料为首次正式刊布，器形、铭文齐备，部份铭文有作者新作摹本，是迄今为止最为完善的的吴越铭刻图录。《吳越題銘研究》的性质既是资料汇编，又是一部有深入研究

At the end of World War II, long before an Allied victory wasassured and before the scope of the atrocities orchestrated byHitler would come into focus or even assume the name of theHolocaust, Allied forces had begun to prepare for its aftermath.Taking cues from the end of the First World War, planners had begunthe futile task of preparing themselves for a civilian healthcrisis that, due in large part to advances in medical science,would never come. The problem that emerged was not widespreaddisease among Europe’s population, as anticipated, but massivedisplacement among those who had been uprooted from home andcountry during the war. Displaced Persons, as the refugees would come to be known, were notcomprised entirely of Jews. Millions of Latvians, Poles,Ukrainians, and Yugoslavs, in addition to several hundred thousandGermans, were situated in a limbo long overlooked by historians.While many were speedily repatriated, millions of refugees refusedto return to countries that were forever changed by the wa

《中国知识青年上山下乡始末》分六章和结束语，它是依照上山下乡历程的不同阶段和不同层次分章。第一章：叙述知识青年上山下乡的缘起，时间上溯到1955年，下限至1961年。这一期间，尚处于倡导和个别试点阶段；第二章：叙述在全国范围内有计划地组织城镇知识青年上山下乡，历时6年；第三章：叙述“文化大革命”中的上山下乡运动，揭示了为什么会演变成一场接受“再教育”的政治运动，以及由此引起的一系列严重后果；第四章：叙述了党和政府如何调整政策、逐步缩小和结束上山下乡运动，同时反映了知青“大返城”后给城镇就业造成压力，以及改革开放政策所带来的转机；第五章：叙述国家在关心下乡知识青年方面所做出的种种努力；第六章：叙述下乡知识青年为国家分忧所做出的贡献，及其经受的磨练；结束语：是对知识青年上山下乡历程的整体分

This book opens the debate about German history in the longterm – about how ideas and political forms are traceable acrosswhat historians have taken to be the sharp breaks of Germanhistory. Smith argues that current historiography has become evermore focused on the twentieth century, and on twentieth-centuryexplanations for the catastrophes at the center of German history.Against conventional wisdom, he considers continuities – nation andnationalism, religion and religious exclusion, racism and violence– that are the center of the German historical experience and thathave long histories. Smith explores these deep continuities innovel ways, emphasizing their importance, while arguing thatGermany was not on a special path to destruction. The result is aseries of innovative reflections on the crystallization ofnationalist ideology, on patterns of anti-Semitism, and on how thenineteenth-century vocabulary of race structured thetwentieth-century genocidal imagination.

This collection of essays by historians and literary scholarstreats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformationto the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in whichreligion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. Itseeks to explore the centrality of the religion-politics nexus forthis whole period through examining a wide variety of literary andnon-literary texts, from plays and poems to devotional treatises,political treatises and histories. It breaks down normaldistinctions between Tudor and Stuart, pre- and post-Restorationperiods to reveal a coherent (though not all serene and untroubled)post-Reformation culture struggling with major issues of belief,practice and authority.

Henry David Thoreau was just a few days short of histwenty-eighth birthday when he built a cabin on the shore of WaldenPond and began one of the most famous experiments in living inAmerican history. Apparently, he did not originally intend to writea book about his life at the pond, but nine years later, in Augustof 1854, Houghton Mifflin's predecessor, Ticknor and Fields,published Walden;or, a Life in the Woods. At the time the book waslargely ignored, and it took five years to sell out the firstprinting of two thousand copies. It was not until 1862, the year ofThoreau's death, that the book was brought back into print. Sincethen it has never been out of print. Published in hundreds ofeditions and translated into virtually every modern language,it hasbecome one of the most widely read and influential books everwritten, not only in this country but throughout the world. On the one hundred and fiftiethanniversary of the original publication of Walden, Houghton Mifflinis proud to present the most bea

August Sartorius von Waltershausen (1852–1938) was an eminentGerman economist who visited the United States at the beginning ofthe 1880s and wrote a series of articles on the US labor movement,which were published in Germany. His training in the historicalschool of economics provided him with a different perspective fromthat of laissez-faire economists or socialists of his time. Thearticles are translated in this book, and presented with abiographical essay by Marcel van der Linden and Gregory Zieren andwith an essay on his contribution to the writing of American laborhistory by David Montgomery. This book provides rich insights intothe character of American workers' organizations as they recoveredfrom the depression of the 1870s, before the establishment ofstrong national institutions.

Sheltered between the cradle of civilization and the busiest trade routes of the ancient world, the Arabian Peninsula is home to millennia-old civilizations that have blossomed and thrived in some of the world's harshest conditions. For many Westerners, their vision of the Arab world is skewed by contemporary political news, but Arabia is a land with a rich tradition of enlightenment, a vibrant society and a past and present that is historically entwined with the cultural roots of the West. The February 2010 film Arabia 3D shines a new light on the origins of this culture shrouded in mystery and the films companion book, Arabia: The Golden Ages, introduces readers to the rich tapestry of Arabian life: the hajj, where three million Muslims descend up on the holy city of Mecca to reaffirm their faith in the largest single human gathering on Earth; the depths of the Red Sea explored as part of an underwater search for ancient shipwrecks and clues to the past; and the everyday traditions of the region such a