日常生活史与西欧中世纪日常生活

本文对西方新兴的日常生活史学派进行评介。首先分析该学派产生的社会背景和学术背景以及对于传统史学的扬弃;其次概括了日常生活史学的特点,诸如研究范围微观化、重建全面史的目标和“目光向下”的方法、“他者”立场的解释,等等;再次对专门研究西欧中世纪日常生活史的该学派代表人物及其著作进行简略的介绍和评价,并在此基础上对有关的西欧中世纪日常生活史研究的得失进行总结。     

《张闻天传》与中共党史、共和国史

张闻天是中国共产党历史上相当一段时期内的重要领导人、杰出的理论家。在他一生的革命实践中 ,对时代提出的许多重大问题进行过深入的探索。他关于东北经济五种成分的概括和分析对新民主主义革命胜利后确立经济建设方针具有开拓性贡献 ;他提出工业化建设方针和布局 ,参与 1 56项工程项目的谈判与落实 ,为奠定中国社会主义工业化的初步基础献计献策 ;他在庐山会议上的发言 ,对“左”倾错误的根源作了全面反思 ;“集市贸易意见书”和《关于生产关系的两重性问题》是他在逆境中的政策建议和理论创造。他的许多见解经受了历史的检验     

A Life in Maps: Leo Bagrow,Imago Mundi,and the History of Cartography in the Early Twentieth Century

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This essay provides a critical commentary on the life of Leo Bagrow (1881–1957), the founding editor of Imago Mundi, drawing on previously unused correspondence from the journal’s archive, recently catalogued by the British Library in London. Bagrow’s experiences in the three European cities in which he lived and worked (St Petersburg, Berlin and Stockholm) are examined afresh and new insights are provided about the complex intellectual and sometimes political objectives and motivations of Bagrow and his fellow map dealers, map collectors and map historians. Particular attention is paid to the productive but often strained relationships between Bagrow and the expanding global network of map historians with whom he collaborated while establishing and editing Imago Mundi between 1935 and his death. This network was divided into four distinct and to some extent rival constituencies (university academics, map librarians, map collectors and map dealers). The essay examines how Imago Mundi, under Bagrow’s often confrontational editorship, emerged as the central co-ordinating forum through which these constituencies communicated with each other and within which the foundations for the modern discipline of map history were established.     

A Tea Life in Lhasa

Every dawn, when the sun extends its first light across the earth, the sound of making buttered tea drifts from every window in the city of Lhasa. That echoing, purring sound lets you know that one more leisurely and carefree tea life in Lhasa is beginning its day.     

Missing Links. Indigenous Life and Evolutionary Thought in the History of Russian Ethnography

The history of Russian social anthropology has long been best known for the work of three, late nineteenth-century “exile ethnographers,” each sent to the Russian Far East for their anti-tsarist activities as students. All three men—Vladimir Bogoraz, Vladimir Iokhel'son, and Lev Shternberg—produced voluminous and celebrated works on Russian far eastern indigenous life, but it was the young Shternberg who had perhaps the most profound effect on setting the agenda for the canonic evolutionist line soon to take hold in late Russian imperial and early Soviet ethnography. This essay draws on archival, library, and field research to revisit the life and work of Shternberg in order to tell the story of “group marriage” that he documented for the life of one Sakhalin Island indigenous people, Gilyaks (or Nivkhgu, Nivkhi). Documented in this way by Shternberg, the Nivkh kinship system proved a crucial “missing link” for Friedrich Engels, who had long been eager to provide evidence of primitive communism as man's natural state. For Gilyaks, the die was cast. Their role as the quintessential savages of Engels’ favor made them famous in Russian and Soviet ethnographic literature, and significantly enhanced their importance to Soviet government planners. This essay tracks that episode and its aftermaths as a pivotal moment in the history of Russian social anthropology and of evolutionist thought more broadly.     

断代通史著作的成功尝试

中国社会科学院近代史研究所组织编撰的《中国近代通史》近期已由江苏人民出版社出版。全书共10卷,约550万字,各卷名称如下:第1卷《近代中国历史进程概说》,第2卷《近代中国的开端(1840—1864)》,第3卷《早期现代化的尝试(1865—1895)》,第4卷《从戊戌维新到义和团(1895—1900)》,第5卷《新政、立宪与辛亥革命(1901—1912)》,第6卷《民国的初建(1912—1923)》,第7卷《国共合作与国民革命(1924—1927)》,第8卷《内战与危机(1927—1937)》,第9卷《抗日战争(1937—1945)》,第10卷《中国命运的决战(1945—1949)》。本书的出版,完成了近代史研究所几代人的夙愿。对于1840—1949年完整的中国近代史来说,本书的撰写还是一个尝试。本刊特别约请我国近代史学界几位著名学者通过笔谈的形式发表看法,以期引起关注和讨论。