当今中国正在继续发轫于近代的借鉴西方走向富强之路的现代化进程，而中华民族悲壮的近代磨难的主要原因便在于对西方文化的跨文化误读，进而反思近代中国的悲壮历程对当前中国或许尤为紧要。很多中华学人矢志于辨析近代悲剧，不断阐发各自的宏论新见，以期尽可能认知近代悲剧的历史语境，而成为当前中国之鉴。袁伟时先生的《晚清大变局中的思潮与人物》便是辨剖近代悲剧的近著中极蕴新见的佳构。
Tony Blair has dominated British political life for more thana decade. Like Margaret Thatcher before him, he has changed theterms of political debate and provoked as much condemnation asadmiration. At the end of his era in power, this book presents awide-ranging overview of the achievements and failures of the Blairgovernments. Bringing together Britain's most eminent academics andcommentators on British politics and society, it examines theeffect of the Prime Minister and his administration on themachinery of government, economic and social policy and foreignrelations. Combining serious scholarship with clarity andaccessibility, this book represents the authoritative verdict onthe impact of the Blair years on British politics andsociety. Covers the full term of Blair's leadership of Labour ? AnthonySeldon is a recognized authority on British Prime Ministers, andTony Blair in particular ? Uniquely authoritative with a superbcollection of contributors including John Curtice, Vernon Bogdanor,Sir La
Praise for Nancy Soderberg's The Superpower Myth "A sensible, hard-headed, realistic alternative to the excesses of America's Iraq-era dealings with the world." -James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly "One of the greatest strengths of Soderberg's book is her insider's account of many of the seminal events of the 1990s. Soderberg [gives us] a bird's-eye view of such critical issues as intervention in the Balkans and Haiti and U.S. efforts to combat al Qaeda and hunt down Osama bin Laden." -Charles A. Kupchan, The Washington Post Book World "Does America Need a Foreign Policy? by Henry Kissinger, The Choice by Zbigniew Brzezinski, and The Superpower Myth by Nancy Soderberg-all of these authors have firsthand experience in government, and it shows. The Superpower Myth, which doubles as a memoir of Soderberg's years in the Clinton administration, is a history told from inside meeting rooms, full of detail about how government bureaucracies actually function
The world looks far different today than it did before theglobal financial crisis struck. Reeling from the most brutalimpacts of the recession, governments, economies, and societieseverywhere are retrenching and pushing hard for increasedprotectionism. That's understandable, but it's also dangerous,maintains global economy expert Pankaj Ghemawat in World 3.0. Leftunchecked, heightened protectionism could prevent peoples aroundthe world from achieving the true gains afforded by cross-borderopenness. Ghemawat paints a disturbing picture of what could happen--tohousehold income, availability of goods and services, and otherquality-of-life metrics--should globalization continue to reversedirection. He then describes how a wide range of players' privatebusinesses, policy makers, citizens, the press' could help openflows of ideas, people, and goods across borders, but in ways thatmaximize economic benefits for all. World 3.0 reveals how we're not nearly as globalized as we thinkwe are, and how pe
'Magisterial...a biography that is almost as much a personaladventure story as an intellectual treatise.' - Andrew Roberts 'A penetrating interpretation...No one with a serious interestin the Napoleonic period can afford to ignore it. ' - TimesLiterary Supplement
Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after the 1979 revolution? This question forms the basis of Hamideh Sedghi's original and unprecedented contribution to politics and Middle Eastern studies. Using primary and secondary sources, Sedghi offers new knowledge on women's agency in relation to state power. In this rigorous analysis she places contention over women at the centre of the political struggle between secular and religious forces and demonstrates that control over women's identities, sexuality, and labor has been central to the consolidation of state power. Sedghi links politics and culture with economics to present an integrated analysis of the private and public lives of different classes of women and their modes of resistance to state power.
First published in 2004, Congress, Progressive Reform and theNew American State uses a series of case-studies of reformlegislation in Congress during the early twentieth century toexplore the nature of progressivism and the processes of politicalchange which resulted in the establishment of the modern Americanstate. Among the topics covered are railroad regulation, laborrelations, social policy of the District of Columbia, Republicaninsurgency, and the nature of Democratic progressivism. This workwill be of interest to students of twentieth-century politicalhistory, the history of Congress, and the origins of the modernAmerican state.
本书共有300多种各型战机的精要介绍，尤其注重其研发历史和作战史，配有战机三视图，及其动力、武器和性能等各种技术数据，还有各型衍生和改进型号的介绍，是战机百科图书类别里极具特点的图书。作为战机深度鉴赏类百科，全书内容丰富，编辑角度独特，值得军迷和专业人士收藏，也是案头重要的参考书。
摆在读者面前的《战术基础理论》丛书，包括以下四种图书：《战术史纲要》、《战术的哲学基础》、《合同战斗发展史》、《中国战术史》。这部丛书反映了中国改革开放以来，中国军事学术界对战术学基础理论的探研成果。战术学是军事科学中最基础、最重要的分支学科之一，它研究的对象是战斗的本质及其规律。战术用通俗的话说是交战双方最直接的战斗方法，具有非常明显的实践性与操作性。而这四种书分别从史的角度与哲学的角度对战术学进行了深入研究，拓展了这一分支学科的研究广度与深度，从而大大提升了这一分支学科的理论含量与学科化程度，是有
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Senator Obama called “the audacity of hope.” Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics–a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of “our improbable experiment in democracy.” He explores those forces–from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media–that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He also writes, with surprising intimacy and self-deprecating hu
It is now 30 years since the publication of seminal articlesby Robert Cox and Richard Ashley, which introduced the project ofcritical theory to the international relations discipline. This2007 book brings together a team of world-class scholars to assessthe impact of critical scholarship on the discipline over thisperiod and point to future directions for the critical project. Thebook is an authoritative overview of the current position ofcritical international relations theory. It is an essentialresource for those working in critical international relationstheory and for undergraduate and graduate courses on InternalRelations theory.
人类一出现武装斗争，间谍便应运而生，成为最古老的两大职业之一。间谍活动神秘莫测，惊心动魄，涌现了不少大智大勇的人物，产生过许多引人入胜的故事。本书讲述了从古埃及、古罗马直至大数据时代下间谍的历史，跨越了5000余年。从中，读者可以看到：古今谍海魅影秘密行动：摩西派间谍窥探迦南，马可·；波罗潜入东方搜集情报，盟军破译德军恩尼格玛密码，苏联“剑桥五人帮”的英国卧底行动等。世界情报机构历史沿革：从古亚述国“国王之眼”，到法国路易十五“国王秘密”，再到军情五处和六处、中情局、克格勃，直至以色列摩萨德等组织。谍战秘密技术更新换代：从密码棒到恩尼格玛密码机，加密技术愈发复杂；从热气球到侦察机，搜集手段不断升级；从人力到卫星，传递方式花样翻新等。情报对人类战争的作用：在塞莫皮莱大战、乌尔姆之战
This book examines Thomas Jefferson's attempt to combine respect for a fundamental constitution with the fact that no set of laws can foresee every event. His solution to this problem offers a democratic, yet strong, alternative to the more common, Hamiltonian solution. Jefferson scholars have long written of 'two Jeffersons,' one before he became president and one after he became president. The first was opposed to a strong executive, while the second embraced one out of necessity. This book challenges this account. It presents Jefferson's understanding of executive power, which, though it developed over time, pointed to an executive that was both democratic and powerful. 作者简介： Jeremy D. Bailey is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University. He was the co-winner of the 2004 APSA E. E. Schattschneider Award for best dissertation in American politics written in 2002 or 2003.
The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of A Patriot's History of the United States examines tencurrent challenges. America is at a crossroads. Weface two options: continue our descent toward big government,higher taxes, less individual liberty, and more debt or pull ourcountry back on the path our Founding Fathers planned for us. Butthat path isn't always so easy to see. Following the success of his previous books, conservativehistorian Larry Schweikart tackles some of the key issuesconfronting our nation today: education, government bailouts, guncontrol, health care, the environment, and more. For each he asks,"What would the founders say?" and sets out to explore our historyand offer wisdom to help us get back on track. What would really becompatible with the vision that Washington, Jefferson, Madison, andthe other founders had for America? Written in Schweikart's informal yet informative style, WhatWould the Founders Say? is sure to delight his fans and anyonelooking fo
We have just experienced the worst financial crash the worldhas seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. While realeconomies in general did not crash as they did in the 1930s, thefinancial parts of the economy certainly did, or, at least, camevery close to doing so. Hundreds of banks in the United States andEurope have been closed by their supervisory authorities, forciblymerged with stronger partners, nationalized or recapitalized withthe tax payers' money. Banks and insurance companies had, by mid2010, already written off some 2000 billion dollars in creditwrite-downs on loans and securities. In this book, Johan Lybeckdraws on his experience as both an academic economist and aprofessional banker to present a detailed yet non-technicalanalysis of the crash. He describes how the crisis began in early2007, explains why it happened and shows how it compares to earlierfinancial crises. · Integrates macro theory and financial facts to provide adetailed yet non-technical analysis of the recent f
This book, by one of America's most intelligent and decent political writers, tells liberals how the conservative movement rose and fell, and how they could emulate its successes while avoiding its failures." —George Packer, author of Blood of the Liberals and The Assassins' Gate "No one is better than Todd Gitlin at describing the crucial dynamic through which movements gain or lose political power. Justly celebrated for his seminal work on such dynamics during the 1960s, Gitlin now explains everything that's happened since, with passion and wisdom—and happily, because of Bushism's collapse, legitimate optimism about the future." —Michael Tomasky, Editor, Guardian America "An impassioned yet realistic plea for Democrats and liberals to become more serious about politics. They would do well to follow his advice." —Alan Wolfe, Director, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College "A brilliant and indispensable book. Gitlin convincingly
From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely)narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrialage to the present day. From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first realfactories in America, to the triumph of unions in the twentiethcentury and their waning influence today, the con?test betweenlabor and capital for their share of American bounty has shaped ournational experience. Philip Dray’s ambition is to show us the vitalaccomplishments of organized labor in that time and illuminate itscentral role in our social, political, economic, and culturalevolution. There Is Power in a Union is an epic, character-drivennarrative that locates this struggle for security and dignity inall its various settings: on picket lines and in union halls,jails, assembly lines, corporate boardrooms, the courts, the hallsof Congress, and the White House. The author demonstrates,viscerally and dramatically, the urgency of the fight for fairnessand economic democracy—a strugg
