Assuming its rightful place of honor on the National Mallbetween the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the WorldWar II Memorial is an eloquent and moving tribute to “The GreatestGeneration.” Sixteen million Americans served in the armedforces—more than 400,000 gave their lives—and millions supportedthe war effort from home, all in the name of protecting that whichwe, as Americans, hold most dear: freedom. The World War II Memorial, published in conjunction with thededication of this long-overdue memorial, commemorates the everydayAmericans who in countless ways rose up to defeat one of history'sgravest threats to freedom. Veterans—including George H.W. Bush,Sen. Daniel Inouye, former senators Bob Dole and George McGovern,Yogi Berra, and many, many others—contribute their own personalstories while leading historians look at the military campaigns ofthe war. The memorial's architect and its sculptor provide insightsinto how it symbolizes the fortitude and perseverance of age

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

本书包括两个单元：“历史主义”与“历史理论”。“历史主义”原是作者就读台大史研所的硕士论文经补充修改而成。“历史理论”主要涉及“分析式历史哲学”的讨论。

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

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

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.

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

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.

As the Los Angeles Times said: "Drawing expertly on fivecenturies of the cultural history of Europe and the Americas,Fuentes seeks to capture the spirit of the new, vibrant, andenduring civilization [in the New World] that began in Spain."Fuentes's singular success in this remarkable endeavor has made thebook a classic in its field. (A Mariner Reissue).

胡可先主编的《夏承焘学案（精）/浙大先生书系》为“浙大先生”丛书之一种。? ?夏承焘（1900—1986），字瞿禅，浙江温州人，毕生致力于词学研究和教学，是现代词学的开拓者和奠基人。他的一系列经典著作无疑是词学史上的里程碑，20世纪的文化学术成果。胡乔木曾经多次赞誉夏承焘先生为“一代词宗”、“词学宗师”。?

《帝国黄昏(大清帝国最后的一抹笑容和悲枪1840-1911)》是一本关于晚清政治思想和学术文化的书，作者李新宇用了随笔的写法，以清末几十年为考察时间段，通过不同的侧面叠加成清帝国崩溃之前的风景图，重新解读历史的细节。通过对一些重要人物和事件的叙述，重现了风雨飘摇的晚清帝国最后的努力和无法避免的崩溃。

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