《法兰西内战》是马克思全面总结巴黎公社的战斗历程和历史经验，阐发马克思主义关于阶级斗争、国家、无产阶级革命和无产阶级专政学说的重要著作。该书由马克思用英文撰写，最初于1871年在伦敦出版。本书收录了该书1871年英文版全文，以及《马克思恩格斯文库》新版第3卷以英、俄对照形式出版的《法兰西内战》 初稿 和 二稿 两个草稿的全文，以及马克思对巴黎公社时期法国报刊所作摘录的第一个笔记本。本次出版，希望能全面反映《法兰西内战》的历史面貌，为研究马克思这一经典著作提供重要的历史资料。

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.

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.

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.

The period from the fifth century to the eighth centurywitnessed massive political, social and religious change in Europe.Geographical and historical thought, long rooted to Romanideologies, had to adopt the new perspectives of late antiquity. Inthe light of expanding Christianity and the evolution of successorkingdoms in the West, new historical discourses emerged which wereseminal in the development of medieval historiography. Taking theirlead from Orosius in the early fifth century, Latin historiansturned increasingly to geographical de*ion, as well ashistorical narrative, to examine the world around them. This bookexplores the interdependence of geographical and historical modesof expression in four of the most important writers of the period:Orosius, Jordanes, Isidore of Seville and the Venerable Bede. Itoffers important readings of each by arguing that the longgeographical passages with which they were introduced were centralto their authors' historical assumptions and arguments.

In 1209 Simon of Montfort led a war against the Cathars ofLanguedoc after Pope Innocent III preached a crusade condemningthem as heretics. The suppression of heresy became a pretext for avicious war that remains largely unstudied as a military conflict.Laurence Marvin here examines the Albigensian Crusade as militaryand political history rather than religious history and tracesthese dimensions of the conflict through to Montfort's death in1218. He shows how Montfort experienced military success in spiteof a hostile populace, impossible military targets, armies thatdissolved every forty days, and a pope who often failed to supportthe crusade morally or financially. He also discusses the supposedbrutality of the war, why the inhabitants were for so longunsuccessful at defending themselves against it, and its impact onOccitania. This original account will appeal to scholars ofmedieval France, the Crusades and medieval military history.

Churchill's six-volume history of World War II -- the definitivework, remarkable both for its sweep and for its sense of personalinvolvement, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historicalreconstruction and an enduring work of literature. From Britian'sdarkest and finest hour to the great alliance and ultimate victory,the Second World War remains the pivotal event in our century.Churchill was not only its greatest leader, but the free world'smost eloquent voice of defiance in the face of Nazi tyranny. Hisepic account of those times, published in six volumes, won theNobel Prize in 1953.

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.