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.
《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
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.
A "full-dress history of the war by one of our mostdistinguished military writers" (NEW YORK TIMES), WORLD WAR I takesus from the first shots in Sarajevo to the signing of the peacetreaty in Versailles and through every bunker, foxhole, andminefield in between. General S.L.A. Marshall drew on his uniquefirsthand experience as a soldier and a lifetime of militaryservice to pen this forthright, forward-thinking history of whatpeople once believed would be the last great war. Newly introducedby the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, David M. Kennedy, WORLDWAR I is a classic example of unflinching military history that iscertain to inform, enrich, and deepen our understanding of thisgreat cataclysm.
《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
In this single indispensable volume, one of Americas rankingscholars combines a lifes work of research and teaching with theart of lively narration. Both authoriatative and beautifully told,THE MIDDLE AGES is the full story of the thousand years between thefall of Rome and the Renaissance a time that saw the rise of kingsand emperors, the flowering of knighthood, the development ofEurope, the increasing power of the Church, and the advent of themiddle class. With exceptional grace and wit, Morris Bishop vividlyreconstructs this distinctive era of European history in a workthat will inform and delight scholars and general readersalike.
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkestyears of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before orsince. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues thisiconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour deforce of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and theircommunities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells oftheir desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dustblizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantlycapturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equaljustice to the human characters who become his heroes, "the stoic,long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgencyand respect" (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greaternatural disasters, "The Worst Hard Time" is "arguably the bestnonfiction book yet" (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatestenvironmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and apowerful cautionary tale about the dangers of trifling withnature
Twenty years in the making and greeted by stunning reviews,The Peabody Sisters is a landmark biography of three women who madeAmerican intellectual history. The story of the Peabody sisters andtheir central role in shaping the thought of their day is a pieceof history that has never before been fully told. Megan Marshall'smasterly and vivid work brings the sistersour American Brontstolife, along with the men they loved and influenced, including RalphWaldo Emerson, Horace Mann, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Marshall castsnew light on a legendary American era in an epic tale with thescope and fascination of the great nineteenth-century novels.
Founded in New York City when Thomas Jefferson was president, Wiley has been a significant player in the publishing industry for two centuries. Now, on the occasion of Wiley's bicentennial, a distinguished team of authors brings Wiley's rich history to life, showing how the company has reacted to trends within the publishing industry as well as to larger economic, social, and cultural forces. Knowledge for Generations sheds light on the long-term strengths and weaknesses of Wiley's business, illuminates the continuities and changes over time, and shows how family ownership has influenced the company's strategies, values, and corporate culture. Drawing on unrestricted access to company archives and interviews with key executives, the authors capture a story of sustained business success, intriguing personalities, and dramatic changes in the industry. Illustrated throughout with illuminating photographs and graphics, Knowledge for Generations is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of publishing.
When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the CivilWar, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lostits philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” withits seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance andperspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as amore cosmopolitan, modern state, ultimately transforming itself, inthe course of twenty-five years, from a feudal backwater to aninternational power. This great wave of historical and culturalreciprocity between the two young nations, which intensified duringthe late 1800s, brought with it some larger-than-lifepersonalities, as the lure of unknown foreign cultures promptedpilgrimages back and forth across the Pacific. In The Great Wave, Benfey tells the story of the tightly knitgroup of nineteenth-century travelers—connoisseurs, collectors, andscientists—who dedicated themselves to exploring and preserving OldJapan. As Benfey writes, “A sense of urgency impelled them, forthe
With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, PeterAckroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with aninspired look into the heart and the history of the Englishimagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd rangesacross literature and painting, philosophy and science,architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to thetwentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artistsas diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten andViriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimescontradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, apassion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. Abrilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius.
A lively...generously illustrated (Washington Post Book World)survey of how, over the past four thousand years, religiousleaders, artists, writers, and ordinary people in the West havevisualized Hell-its location, architecture, purpose, andinhabitants. Illustrations; full-color inserts.
This singular collection is nothing less than a political,spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuousmodern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators,activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group ofworks that are both intimate and important, essays that move frompersonal experience to larger significance without severing theconnection between speaker and audience. From Ernest Hemingwaycovering bullfights in Pamplona to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s"Letter from Birmingham Jail," these essays fit, in the words ofJoyce Carol Oates, "into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest ing] wherewe've come from, and who we are, and where we are going." Amongthose whose work is included are Mark Twain, John Muir, T. S.Eliot, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe,Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joan Didion, CynthiaOzick, Saul Bellow, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Hoagland, and AnnieDillard.
MANY NARRATIVE ACCOUNTS of men in combat during World War II have conveyed thc horrors and emotions ofwarfarc. Howevcr, not many reveal in such an intimate way the struggle of innocent youth to adapt to the primitivc code of "kill or bc killed," to transform from lads into combat soldiers. Another River, Another Town is the story of John P. Irwin, a teenage tank gunner whose idealistic desire to achicve heroism is shattered.by the incredibly different view of life thc world of combat demands. Hc comes to the realization that the rcalm of warfare has almost nothing in common with the civilian life fi-om which he has come. The interminable fighting, dirt, fhtigue, and hunger make thc war seem endless. Ill addition to the killing and destruction on the attlefield,Irwin and his crew arc caught up in the unbelievable depravity they encounter at Nordhausen Camp, where slave laborers are compelled towork themselves to death manufacturing theinfamous V-rockets that have been causing somuch destruction in Lon
Hailed by Salman Rushdie as "one of the most important voicescoming out of Latin America," the best-selling author and humanrights activist Ariel Dorfman delivers a memoir excavating for thefirst time his profound and provocative journey as an exile. In September 1973, the military took power inChile, and Ariel Dorfman, allied to deposed president SalvadorAllende, was forced to flee for his life. Feeding on Dreams is thestory of the transformative decades of exile that followed. Dorfmanportrays, through visceral scenes and powerful intellect, thepersonal and political maelstroms underlying his migrations fromBuenos Aires, on the run from Pinochet’s death squads, to safehouses in Paris and Amsterdam, and eventually to America, hischildhood home. And then, seventeen years after he was forced toleave, there is a yearned-for return to Chile, with an unimaginableoutcome. The toll on Dorfman’s wife and two sons, the "earthquakeof language" that is bilingualism, and his eventual questioning ofhis allegiance
The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of theCivil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series. Thisnon-illustrated edition interweaves the author's narrative with thevoices of the men and women who lived through that cataclysmictrail of our nationhood, from Abraham Lincoln to ordinary footsoldiers. Includes essays by distinguished historians of theera.
Rome's Gothic Wars is a concise introduction to the latestresearch on the Roman Empire's relations with one of the mostimportant barbarian groups of the ancient world. The book usesarchaeological and historical evidence to look not just at thecourse of events, but at the social and political causes ofconflict between the empire and its Gothic neighbours. In eightchapters, Michael Kulikowski traces the history of Romano-Gothicrelations from their earliest stage in the third century, throughthe development of strong Gothic politics in the early fourthcentury, until the entry of many Goths into the empire in 376 andthe catastrophic Gothic war that followed. The book closes with adetailed look at the career of Alaric, the powerful Gothic generalwho sacked the city of Rome in 410.
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
Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodoxChristians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of thepeople who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slavesenjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class inthe world. Now, did it not follow that the lives of laborers of allraces across the world would be immeasurably improved by theirenslavement? In the Old South but in no other slave society adoctrine emerged among leading clergymen, politicians, andintellectuals - 'Slavery in the Abstract', which declaredenslavement the best possible condition for all labor regardless ofrace. They joined the Socialists, whom they studied, in believingthat the free-labor system, wracked by worsening class warfare, wascollapsing. A vital question: to what extent did the people of theseveral social classes of the South accept so extreme a doctrine?That question lies at the heart of this book.
方舆胜览这部书在祝穆生前已经写就，並刻印成册。全书分为前集四十三卷，后集七卷，续集二十卷，携带遗一卷。前集自浙西路起，至海外四州止；后集为淮东和淮西两路；续集自成都路起，至利西路止；拾遗则自览安府至绍熙每府州各補数条，各集之末又有简短的告白。 该书的元刻本不少，单北京图书馆就收藏有三种，其它如北京大学图书馆、上海图书馆、南京博物院图书馆、杭州大学图书馆、四川师范大学图书馆等也都有收藏，收藏元刻残本的还有福建省图书馆、贵州省图书馆、南京图书馆、清华大学图书馆、哈*濱图书馆等单位。 清代没有刻印过方舆胜览，但有很多新的抄本问世。除四库全书抄本外，我们这次还看到了北京图书馆的昆山徐乾学傅是楼抄本、上
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”
