‘The most wonderful piece of machinery the world can boast of:’ The water‐works at Marly, 1680–1830

This article presents the changes in the perception of the famous pumping apparatus at Marly. Constructed in 1680–88 to deliver water to the fountains of the royal palaces, its complicated mechanism and the extraordinary costs involved were at first hailed as symbols for the absolutist splendour of Louis XIV. In the early 18th century, the machine entered the technical compendia of Bélidor, Leupold and Desaguliers, and subsequently became a preferred object for projectors and inventors of all kinds, among them James Watt and Matthew Boulton. During the French Revolution, a new ‘pastoral’ discourse on machines emerged, leading the inventor Trouville to propose his ‘natural hydraulics’ to replace the Marly machine. As an answer, engineers like Carnot and Prony developed a new general theory of machines, which led to an industrial conception of machines. The evaluation of technical devices in terms of efficiency meant that the apparatus at Marly was now perceived as a supreme waste of power.     

The Ballast Trade: An Economic Driver In Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-century Newcastle Upon Tyne

The domination of the economy of Newcastle upon Tyne by the coal industry during the seventeenth- and eighteenth - centuries is well known. Many ships arriving to collect a cargo of coal did not carry cargo but carried ballast, often in the form of sand or gravel. Over many years a vast quantity of ballast was deposited along the banks of the river, often spilling into the water, causing obstruction to river traffic. The management of ballast became a major pre-occupation for the Burgesses of Newcastle and a complex organisation evolved to manage the problem. Ships masters paid fees to the town to deposit ballast at ballast staiths which was then conveyed to the ballast hills at some distance from the river. The cumulative amount of these fees provided a substantial income both to the town and the Ballast Conveyors who leased and ran the ballast staiths, resulting in significant competition between the leading citizens in the town to obtain a lease to work a ballast shore. The ballast trade and its associated social, political and business networks played a very important and previously little understood role in the economy of Newcastle during this period.     

The geography and natural resources of Bolivia

This paper tries to show the main thread of Scottish national identity in the nineteenth century and how Scotland's close connection with the empire did not asuage Scottish desires to retain a national identity. The paper tries to illustrate that the interpretation of the union connection by the Scottish political classes was central to the understanding of Scotland as a nation during the period. Examples are also provided of the way in which the union could be questioned in this century, but this was with the caveat that this would necessarily be limited; for such was the extent to which national identity was played out on an imperial stage. Although Scots never lost sight of their distinctiveness, any extension of the critique of union would have ultimately worked against their ability to confidently display their identity as they did quite successfully in the nineteenth century.     

Akko 1 shipwreck: the effect of cannon fire on the wooden hull

The Akko 1 shipwreck was discovered inside the harbour of the old walled city of Akko (Acre, St. Jean d'Acre, Akka), Israel. The ship's hull was built mainly of oak, with closely-set framing timbers that created a solid side. The shipwreck was apparently a result of the naval bombardment of the town in 1840.     

19世纪越南政区的时空分布与变革特征

19世纪越南阮朝统治者的改革,导致其政区时空分布发生变动。政区数量在1840年达到巅峰,其中高层政区数目最为稳定,统县和县级政区数目前后起伏较大。数量变动影响了政区密度和管理幅度,缓解了高地和低地政区设置失衡的局面。嘉隆改革的特征是淡化了政区的军事色彩,明命改革的特征是对清朝省制引入与调适,此后的统治者没有实施大规模改革,只是进行了修补性调整。     

20世纪中国历史地理研究若干进展

以探讨未来中国历史地理学在国际全球变化与可持续发展研究中的作用为目的, 根据近半个多世纪中国历史地理学的相关研究成果, 对20世纪中国历史地理学研究的若干进展进行了简要回顾。内容涉及: ①历代疆域政区研究与历史地图的编制; ②历史气候与自然灾害研究; ③历史时期地表过程研究; ④中华文明起源与发展研究;⑤区域综合与重大历史事件研究; ⑥历史时期人地关系与适应模式研究; ⑦基础资料的积累与新技术应用等 7 个方面。除上述进展外, 中国历史地理学还建立了一套独具特色的研究方法, 构筑了较为完善的学科体系, 并培养了一代又一代的学术继承人和学科带头人。     

二十世纪《淮南子》研究

《淮南子》内容丰富,体系庞大,20 世纪的学人从各个方面对其展开了不同层次的研究,取得了丰硕的成果。但是从学术史的角度对其进行一次系统的梳理,在学术界没有引起足够的重视。因此本文尝试从具体的史料分析和归纳总结中,客观地展现出《淮南子》研究的时代特色和鲜明的自身特点来,希望为未来《淮南子》的研究寻找新的视野、开拓更宽广的学术平台。     

20世纪初叶西藏的日本军事教官矢岛保治郎

矢岛保治郎是20世纪初叶日本入藏者中一个颇具冒险色彩的人物。他曾怀着不同的目的两度入藏,并被西藏地方政府聘请为军事教官,在西藏活动达6年之久,成为近代日本与中国西藏地方关系史中一个相当重要的人物。对他入藏经过及其在西藏的活动进行考察,不仅有助于我们对西藏近代史的研究,而且对我们认识历史上日本对我国西藏的渗透活动有所裨益。     

山西太原纯阳宫所藏明代一尊星宿彩塑颜料分析

利用现代科技分析手段提取古代彩塑信息并与文献结合,可以推断其工艺、材料和制作时间,进而确定其历史价值、科学价值和艺术价值,为艺术史研究和保护修复提供信息与帮助。因此,本工作利用三维视频显微镜(3D Video Microscope)、偏光显微镜(PLM)、拉曼光谱(Raman)、扫描电子显微镜与能谱仪(SEMEDX)、X-射线衍射仪(XRD)和大腔体微束X-射线荧光光谱仪(XRF)等分析了山西太原纯阳宫所藏一尊明代道教星宿彩塑脱落样品,发现彩塑经过多次重绘。其中星宿足部经过四次重绘,从胎体至表面层使用的黑色颜料为炭黑(C),绿色颜料为氯铜矿(CuCl_2·3Cu(OH)_2),白色颜料为铅白(PbCO_3),褐红色颜料为靛青(C_6H_(10)N_2O_2)与黄丹(PbO)的混合物。彩塑头部经过两次重绘,分别使用了群青(Na_(6-8)Al_6Si_6O_(24)(S_(2-4))和靛青。彩塑躯干部位表层红色颜料为朱砂(HgS)和铅丹(Pb_3O_4)的混合物,黄色颜料为铅铬黄(PbCrO_4),蓝色颜料为群青,绿色颜料为铅铬黄(PbCrO_4)与群青的混合物。彩塑白粉层成分为石英(SiO_2)与高岭土(Al_2Si_2O_7·2H_2O)的混合物。分析结果表明,此尊星宿彩塑在过去的数百年间曾经多次重绘或修葺,根据不同白粉层成分组成相近判断,保存该彩塑群的寺观有将高岭土作为白粉层的传统。研究结果可为保护材料和修复技术的选择提供信息和依据。     

20世纪初天津的金融风潮及其应对机制

20世纪最初的十年 ,天津金融市场接连发生六七次金融风潮。这些金融风潮有着各自不同的原因和背景 ,但其深层次原因在于 ,在天津对外贸易发展的过程中金融业自身发展的不足。主要表现在金融业基础的脆弱 ,金融制度的混乱及制度变迁的滞后。面对一次次金融风潮 ,天津官商共同寻求应对策略 ,但更多的是针对性的对策 ,而较少具有根本意义的制度性建设。这一切都表明天津金融市场面临这样的变局所显现出的明显的不适应     

不平衡的发展:20世纪与现代化

20世纪历史的主题是现代化,20世纪重大历史事件都围绕现代化展开。就不发达国家而言,现代化对他们的冲击逼迫它们做出回应,于是就出现众多的革命、改良、和民族独立战争。就发达国家而言,经济大萧条和两次世界大战似乎表明它们的“现代化”已经出现问题了,于是它们进入“修正”现代化的阶段。一方面是现代化的全球扩张,一方面是“修正”现代化的努力,这两种相反趋势造成20世纪历史的矛盾发展,“不平衡”引发出无数的“多元化”。     

二十世纪二三十年代中国农村经济调查与研究评述

农村始终是中国现代化建设最广阔、最深厚的基础,因此关于农村调查及发展研究倾注了几代中国人的心血。20世纪上半叶尤其二三十年代的中国农村调查与研究主要有：晏阳初、梁漱溟的乡村建设试验区以及社会学家李景汉的定县调查;陈翰笙领导的保定、无锡农村重点调查和全国性抽查;国民政府首次以国家机关名义进行的农村经济普查与定期统计。此外,还有南京金陵大学美国人卜凯组织的大规模的农村调查和日本人“满铁”的华北农村调查。这些农村调查的目的不一。深浅有别。但客观卜都为日后的中国农村经济研究留下了颇有价值的资料。     

中国共产党与2O世纪的中国——纪念中国共产党成立80周年

20世纪是中国走向现代化的世纪。辛亥革命的胜利、中华民国的建立,标志着中国走向现代化(主动)的正式启动;五四前后在经济(民族资本的发展)、思想(新文化运动)、政治(无产阶级登上政治舞台、中共成立、国共合作)等方面的成就,标志着中国走向现代化的全面启动;新民主主义革命的胜利、中华人民共和国的成立,开辟了中国走向现代化的广阔道路;改革开放使中国走上社会主义现代化的康庄大道,中国的现代化事业迅猛发展。在新的21世纪,中华民族将以更强劲的英姿屹立于世界民族之林。     

18th- and 19th-century shipyards at the south-east entrance to the West India Docks, London

Archaeological fieldwork in 1997 on the Isle of Dogs, at the south-east entrance to the West India Docks, recovered evidence of 17th- to 19th-century shipyards, associated activities and foreign trade. Reused timbers may be the remains of the 17th-century Rolt's yard. Reclamation along the natural inlet was accompanied by the construction of a timber dry dock probably in the late 18th century. This soon fell out of use and was filled in with the construction of new dry docks to the south in 1806 by Thomas Pitcher. Much of the debris dating to the first half of the 19th century from ship repairing and building and from a range of ancillary crafts, together with ceramics from Iberia and the Far East, probably came from Pitcher's yard.     

19世纪收继问题研究——以安徽为中心

19世纪安徽社会中收继现象较为普遍,平均14%的家庭发生收继或出继行为,来解决一些家庭的"无后"的问题.从宗族角度讲,收继可以分为族内收继和族外收继两种情形,各需履行不同的收继程序,中上层家庭以族内收继为主,下层家庭则族外收继多于族内收继.国家和宗族对收继的前提、原则和被收继人在新旧家庭中的地位做出种种规定,但制度规范与人们的实际行为间存在着相当的差异.     

A 19th century post‐mortem specimen from Deal,Kent

A disarticulated cranium from a builder's trench displayed clear evidence for surgical removal of the cranial vault. Documentary evidence indicates that the post‐mortem was undertaken between 1812–1869 and the patient was probably a British serviceman. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Book reviews

Ruth Oldenziel, Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870–1945 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999), pp. 271

Lars Engwall and Vera Zamagni (eds.), Management Education in Historical Perspective (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999), pp. Xiii+177

T.R. Gourvish and N. Tiratsoo (eds.), Missionaries and Managers: American Influences on European Management Education, 1945–1960 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press/St. Martins, 1999), pp. X+165     

20世纪宋代法律制度史研究的回顾与反思

宋代法律制度史的研究起步较晚,20世纪上半叶成果不多,80年代以后才快速发展,在综合研究、立法研究、刑法研究、民事法研究、司法制度研究和法律献的整理研究方面都取得了丰硕成果。宋代法律制度的基本内容和特点已经被揭示,宋代在中国法律史上的重要地位也被越来越多的人所认识和重视。然而在学术规范方面还存在问题。目前,要花精力多搞些实证研究;要借鉴史学、社会学、政治学等学科的理论和方法来充实和拓宽宋代法律制度的研究领域,注重法律制度发展的历史阶段性和法的动态及功能研究。