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”
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.
Claude Markovits tells the story of two groups of Hindumerchants from the towns of Shikarpur and Hyderabad in the provinceof Sind. Basing his account on previously neglected archivalsources, the author charts the development of these communities,from the pre-colonial period through colonial conquest and up toindependence, describing how they came to control trading networksthroughout the world. While the book focuses on the trade of goods,money and information from Sind to the widely dispersed locationsof Kobe, Panama, Bukhara and Cairo, it also throws light on thenature of trading diasporas from South Asia in their interactionwith the global economy. This is a sophisticated and accessiblebook, written by one of the most distinguished economic historiansin the field. It will appeal to scholars of South Asia, as well asto colonial historians and to students of religion.
What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? Bythinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind ofEnglish historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, MichaelBentley reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offersthe first full analysis of English historiography in this crucialperiod. Modernist historiography set itself the objective of goingbeyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' inorder to establish history as the queen of the humanities and as arival to the sciences as a vehicle of knowledge. Professor Bentleydoes not follow those who deride modernism as 'positivist' or'empiricist' but instead shows how it set in train brilliant newstyles of investigation that transformed how historians understoodthe English past. But he shows how these strengths were eventuallyoutweighed by inherent confusions and misapprehensions thatthreatened to kill the very subject that the modernists hadintended to sustain.
This first examination in almost forty years of politicalideas in the seventeenth-century American colonies reaches somesurprising conclusions about the history of democratic theory moregenerally. The origins of a distinctively modern kind of thinkingabout democracy can be located, not in revolutionary America andFrance in the later eighteenth century, but in the tiny New Englandcolonies in the middle seventeenth. The key feature of thisdemocratic rebirth was honoring not only the principle of popularsovereignty through regular elections but also the principle ofaccountability through non-electoral procedures for the auditingand impeachment of elected officers. By staking its institutionalidentity entirely on elections, modern democratic thought hasmisplaced the sense of robust popular control which originallyanimated it.
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
《格瓦拉日记》是格瓦拉以古巴现实，文化，特性和政治现实为基础而慢慢写就的手资料。虽然这些在时间写下的文字只是主观而不完整的记述，无法展现那段历史的全景，但切对诸多历史事件和历史人物的描写，却无比真实的反映出他在古巴人民争取自由的斗争中所肩负的责任和付出的努力。
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”
This 2008 book explores Friedrich Nietzsche's understanding ofmodern political culture and his position in the history of modernpolitical thought. Surveying Nietzsche's entire intellectual careerfrom his years as a student in Bonn and Leipzig during the 1860s tohis genealogical project of the 1880s, Christian Emden contributesto a historically informed discussion of Nietzsche's response tothe political predicaments of modernity, and sheds new light on theintellectual and political culture in Germany as the ideals of theEnlightenment gave way to the demands of the modern nation state.This is a distinguished addition to the series of Ideas in Context,and a major reassessment of a philosopher and aphorist whosestature among post-enlightenment European thinkers is now almostunrivalled.
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
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.
The Great Task Remaining is a striking, often poignant portraitof people balancing their own values—rather than ours—to determinewhether the horrors attending Mr. Lincoln’s war were worth bearingin order to achieve his ultimate goals. As 1863 unfolds, we see theuseless bloodbath at Fredericksburg, the disaster atChancellorsville, the battle--of Gettysburg, and the end of thesiege of Vicksburg. Then,Astonishingly, the Confederacy springsvigorously back to lifeAfter the Union triumphs of the summer,setting the stage for Lincoln’s now famous speech on thePennsylvania battlefield.Without abandoning the underlying sympathyfor Lincoln, Marvel makes a convincing argument for the GettysburgAddress as being less of a paean to liberty than an appeal to staythe course in the face of rampant antiwar sentiment. The Great TaskRemaining offers a provocative history--of a dramatic year—a yearthat saw victory and defeat, doubt And riot—as well as a compellingstory of a people who clung to the promise of a much-lo
The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, withmore than 150 illustrations, most in full color. In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President oThomasJefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of oDiscoverycrossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, headingwest into the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. The expedition, led by two remarkable and utterly differentcommanders--the brilliant but troubled Meriwether Lewis and histrustworthy, gregarious friend William Clark--was to be the UnitedStates' first exploration into unknown spaces. The unlikely crewcame from every corner of the young nation: soldiers from NewHampshire and Pennsylvania and Kentucky, French Canadian boatmen,several sons of white fathers and Indian mothers, a slave namedYork, and eventually a Shoshone Indian woman, Sacagawea, whobrought along her infant son. Together they would cross the continent, searching for the fabledNorthwest Passage that had been the great dream of explor
