The Global Frontier: Comparative History and the Frontier-Borderlands Approach in American Foreign Relations

"This trip into the Amazon would help to understand the real potential of Fordlandia: if it were all just an enormous glass container, a cavity made of precious crystal, into which an eccentric millionaire had poured his eccentric dreams; or if, in fact, it really was a pioneering adventure whose goal was to raise the flag of progress in an unknown territory, as unknown as it was beautiful, never to leave."
ldquo;So, don't you think, then, that to tamper with Eden is to destroy it?"     

两汉时代神灵信仰世界中的西王母

起源于中国西部信仰系统中的西王母在西汉中后期开始成为全国性崇拜的最高神灵,其受崇奉程度甚至超过了原先产生于关东特别是楚地并影响于关中地区的太一神。通过考察文献和出土代表性文物可知,西王母超越太一神,这一信仰变革与两汉时代中国西部地区在经济文化上的崛起有着十分密切的关系。     

Military and Civilian Governance in the Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire during the First World War

On the whole, the civilian and military authorities were able to coordinate and compromise in governing Russia’s western borderlands during the First World War, despite constant military interference in civilian governance and a certain apathy in the center, both of which contributed to administrative disunity from the onset of the war.     

《晋安帝纪》与东晋安帝朝史书关系研究

黄爽《晋安帝纪》辑本材料出处名称多达六种。经笔者考订，《隋志》所著录王韶之《晋纪》与两《唐志》所著录《崇安记》及《宋书》所载《晋安帝阳秋》皆为《晋安帝纪》之异名，而黄爽辑本中之《续晋安帝纪》与《晋安帝纪》非一书，乃作者误辑。     

论两汉时期的生态思想

在中国传统思想中,尊重自然规律、珍爱生命、倡导天人和谐的生态观念源远流长;而两汉时期正是中国古代生态思想总结定型的关键阶段.两汉时期的生态思想不仅倡导生态和谐和生态保护,而且更为鲜明的是强化生态伦理.生态和谐、生态伦理和生态保护思想三者相互联系、相互渗透、密不可分,这正是两汉时期生态思想的核心内容和基本特点.     

一战后东欧民族关系与国际联盟

一战给东欧地区的民族关系以巨大的冲击,而凡尔赛体系作出的战后安排使该地区的民族关系进一步复杂化.在这一背景下,从稳定战后欧洲秩序的角度出发,主要的战胜国建立了一个在国际联盟保证之下的少数民族保护体系,它是人类历史上第一次以国际组织监督与调节的形式处理和解决民族冲突的尝试.     

内蒙古地区东周时期东西区的差异及相关问题

内蒙古地区的东周时期遗存正值北方系青铜文化的鼎盛时期,最有代表性的遗存当属桃红巴拉类型和毛庆沟类型。从它们的命名看,人们已经意识到内蒙古地区东、西部文化的差别。这种差别的表现形式、它们的含义以及造成这种差别的原因,是本文所要探究的。内蒙古自治区位于中国的北方,呈东西长、南北窄的长条形地带。在内蒙古中部,有黄河迂回流过形成的河套地区,其北部有阴山和大青山横亘于内蒙古中部。这里的考古发现多集中于河套与大青山附近。毛庆沟等东区遗存以大青山东段的岱海为中心,桃红巴拉等西区遗存以河套以南的鄂尔多斯高原为中心,向北…