AN ESSAY BY DAVID THELEN: HISTORY MAKING IN AMERICA

Born in 1939 in Berkeley, California, Thelen received his B.A. from Antioch College and his master's and doctoral degrees in U.S. history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, during the 1960s. In 1985, he moved to Indiana University, Bloomington, in order to become editor of The Journal of American History, published by the Organization of American Historians. Besides being an innovative and imaginative editor, Thelen has been actively involved with the Committee on History-Making in America and its new center that opened at Indiana University in September 1990. Anyone interested in this project is invited to write to Lois Silverman, Director, Center on History-Making in America, Indiana University, 203 Education Building, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405.     

INTERVIEW WITH ROGER ADELSON

Born in 1942 and reared in Kansas, Adelson received his B.A. degree from George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; his B.Litt. degree from Oxford University, Oxford, England; and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University, St. his, Missouri, where he was a Danforth Fellow. He held a post-doctoral research fellowship at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and taught briefly at Harvard before joining the history faculty at Arizona State University in 1974. Adelson's publications include Mark Sykes: Portrait of an Amateur and London and the Invention of the Middle East: Money, Power, and War, 1902–1922. While editing The Historian from 1990 to 1995, Adelson has interviewed numerous historians; many will be republished this fall in Speaking of History. As a consulting editor for The Historian, Adelson will continue doing interviews. This one was conducted by Peter Iverson, associate editor, and edited by Joy Margheim, editorial assistant, in December, 1995.     

FEATURE REVIEW

Feature reviews in this article
Michael L. Krenn. U.S. Policy toward Economic Nationalism in Latin America, 1917–1929 . Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1990.
Gerald K. Haines. The Americanization of Brazil: A Study of U.S. Cold War Diplomacy in the Third World, 1945–1954 . Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1989.
Ruth Leacock. Requiem for Revolution: The United States and Brazil, 1961–1969 . Kent: Kent State University Press, 1990.
Michael J. Cohen. Truman and Israel . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Warren I. Cohen and Akira Iriye, eds. The Great Powers in East Asia, 1953–1960 . New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Rosemary Foot. A Substitute for Victory: The Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson, eds. Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.     

Nazi Leaders,Members, and Voters

ALBERT HOURANI. The Emergence of the Modern Middle East. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. Pp. 263. $30 (US); ELIE KEDOURIE, Islam in the Modern World and Other Studies. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. Pp. 332. $17.95 (US).     

Books in Summary

Heresy in The University: The Black Athena Controversy and The Responsibilities of American Intellectuals , by Jacques Berlinerblau
The Houses of History: a Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory , selected and introduced by Anna Green and Kathleen Troup
Writing West Indian Histories , by B. W. Higman
Marxism and History: A Critical Introduction , 2d edition, by S. H. Rigby
Wahrheit Und Geschichte: Zwei Chinesische Historiker Auf Der Suche Nach Einer Modernen Identität Für China [Truth and History: Two Chinese Historians in Search of a Modern Identity for China] , by Axel Schneider
Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia , edited by Peter van der Veer and Hartmut Lehmann     

Book Reviews

Roman Spain. By S. J. Keay. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection. [Vol. 14 of The Transformation of the Classical Heritage University of Alabama in Huntsville The Mountains and the City: The Tuscan Appennines in the Early Middle Ages Before France and Germany. The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World University of Illinois at Chicago Politics, Policy and Finance under Henry III Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto Civility and Society in Western Europe Bench and Bureaucracy: The Public Career of Sir Julius Caesar Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688 The Hereditary Bondsman: Daniel O'Connell Farmworkers in England and Wales: A Social and Economic History In Search of Victorian Values: Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Thought and Society. Edited by Eric M. Sigsworth Baldwin and the Conservative Party: The Crisis of 1929-1931. By Stuart Ball Never Despair Andreas Fischer and the Sabbatarian Anabaptists: An Early Reformation Episode in East Central Europe. By Daniel Liechty Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. By Robert N. Proctor Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine. By Avi Shlaim King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan. By Mary C. Wilson Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945. By W. G. Beasley Coming Over: Migration and Communication Between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century. By David Cressy The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather. By Michael G. Hall Bound for America. The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775. By A. Roger Ekirch The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America The Canary Islanders of Louisiana. By Gilbert C. Din. (Baton Rouge and London Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron. By Edward N. Akin Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933-1940. By James S. Olson The Airway to Everywhere: A History of All American Aviation, 1937-1953. By W. David Lewis and William F. Trimble Eleanor Roosevelt and the Media, A Public Quest for Self-Fulfillment. By Maurine H. Beasley Alternatives to Anarchy: American Supranationalism Since World War II. By Wesley T. Wooley Turning Point: 1968. By Irwin Unger and Debi Unger The Life and Death of the Solid South: A Political History. By Dewey W. Grantham Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, A Biography. [Southern Biography Series.] By Thomas E. Schott Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical. By Janice R. MacKinnon and Stephen R. MacKinnon Union Busting in the Tri-State: The Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri Metal Workers'strike of 1935. By George G. Suggs Jr The Law of the Land: Two Hundred Years of American Farmland Policy. By John Opie Kenekuk, The Kickapoo Prophet. By Joseph B. Herring No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940. By Sarah Deutsch Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier. [Oklahoma Western Biography Series.] By Robert M. Utley The Military and United States Indian Policy, 1865-1903. By Robert Wooster Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military Frontier. Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton Formulating American Indian Policy in New York State, 1970-1986. By Laurence M. Hauptman The Cycles of American History. By Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr The American Census: A Social History. By Margo J. Anderson Highlander: No Ordinary School, 1932-62. By John M. Glen The Rise of Experimentation in American Psychology. Edited by Jill G. Mora wski Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution, 1790-1880. By Anne M. Boylan Spirit Fruit: A Gentle Utopia. By H. Roger Grant Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit. By Robert Bogdan The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains. By Glenda Riley On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women's Issues, 1945-1968. By Cynthia Harrison Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930. By Joanne J. Meyerowitz The Grounding of Modern Feminism. By Nancy F. Cott The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-85. By Thomas E. Skidmore Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Central America. By James Dunkerley     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Qur'anic Concept of History, by Mazheruddin Siddiqi. Counsels in Contemporary Islam. Islamic Surveys 3. By Kenneth Cragg. Die Welt des Islam und die Gegenwart. (The World of Islam and the Present Time.) Edited by Rudi Paret. A History of Medieval Islam, by J. J. Saunders. The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, by Guy LeStrange. The Modern History of Lebanon, by Kamal S. Salibi. Documents from Islamic Chanceries. First Series (Oriental Studies III). Edited by S. M. Stern. The University Looks Abroad: Approaches to World Affairs at Six American Universities, a report from Education and World Affairs. Bread From Stones: Fifty Years of Technical Assistance. Edited by John S. Badeau and Georgians G. Stevens.     

变动中的东亚地缘政治与美国东亚政策的演变

近年来,伴随着中国的快速发展和东亚地缘政治格局的变化,美国加快了向东亚转移战略力量的步伐,这一动向值得中国关注。本文通过对近代以来东亚地缘政治格局的变化进行分析,系统梳理了美国东亚政策的来龙去脉及其主线,并对美国东亚政策的未来走向进行了预研。     

亚洲溢价--中日能源的共同困境

由于中东石油输出国对同一时间出口到不同地区的同种原油采用不同的计价公式,使亚洲原油进口价格高于欧美等国的进口价格,形成亚洲溢价。进入21世纪以来,亚洲溢价程度加深,范围扩展。本文在介绍亚洲溢价基础上着重分析了亚洲溢价对中日两国的不利影响以及亚洲溢价的产生原因,提出通过培育亚洲原油定价中心、中日联合采购等途径削减亚洲溢价,能维护亚洲能源进口国的利益。     

Interview with Stephen J. Pyne

Born in California in 1949, reared and educated in Arizona, Pyne earned his bachelor's degree in English at Stanford University and his master's and doctoral degrees in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Pyne has written about fire on earth as none did before him. He has fought fires on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, collected a unique library on how different cultures have used and misused fire in the past, and consulted on fire management for many agencies throughout the world. He has published seven books, three monographs, fourteen reports, and over fifty articles and essays. A MacArthur Fellow from 1988 to 1993, Pyne is a professor of American Studies at Arizona State University West. He and his wife, Sonja Sandberg, were married in 1977 and have two daughters. They live in Glendale, Arizona, where this interview was conducted in September 1994 by Roger Adelson.     

THE VALUE OF HISTORICAL FIELD WORK

Born in Oklahoma City in 1939, educated at George Washington University, the University of Central Oklahoma, and the University of Oklahoma, Baird taught for a decade at the University of Arkansas, Fayettmille, and for another ten years at Oklahoma State University before accepting in 1989 the Howard A. White Professorship of History at Pepperdine University. He and his wife, Jane, are the parents of a daughter and a son. In addition to numerous articles, Baird has published eight books on the history of Native American peoples in Oklahoma and two on the history of medicine in Arkansas. He has been president of the Western History Association and chair of the Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities. From 1989 to 1991 he served as president of Phi Alpha Theta, whose advisory council he now chairs. Bairds presidential address was delivered in December 1991 at the 70th Anniversary Phi Alpha Theta convention held in Chicago.     

Virtual Forum: Archaeology and Decolonization

In this forum, patiently achieved through months of cyber-work, participants Nayanjot Lahiri (India), Nick Shepherd (South Africa), Joe Watkins (USA) and Larry Zimmerman (USA), plus the two editors of Arqueología Suramericana, Alejandro Haber (Argentina) and Cristóbal Gnecco (Colombia), discuss the topic of archaeology and decolonization. Nayanjot Lahiri teaches archaeology in her capacity as Professor at the Department of History, University of Delhi. Her books include Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilization was Discovered (2005) and The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes (1992). She has edited The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization (2000) and an issue of World Archaeology entitled The Archaeology of Hinduism (2004). Nick Shepherd is a senior lecturer in the Center for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, where he convenes the program in public culture in Africa. He sits on the executive committee of the World Archaeological Congress, and is co-editor of the journal Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress. In 2004 he was based at Harvard University as a Mandela Fellow. He has published widely on issues of archaeology and society in Africa, and on issues of public history and heritage. Joe Watkins is Choctaw Indian and archaeologist Joe Watkins is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He is 1/2 Choctaw Indian by blood, and has been involved in archaeology for more than thirty-five years. He received his Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma and his Master’s of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Anthropology from Southern Methodist University, where his doctorate examined archaeologists’ responses to questionnaire scenarios concerning their perceptions of American Indian issues. His current study interests include the ethical practice of anthropology and the study of anthropology’s relationships with descendant communities and Aboriginal populations, and he has published numerous articles on these topics. His first book Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice (AltaMira Press, 2000) examined the relationships between American Indians and archaeologists and is in its second printing His latest book, Reclaiming Physical Heritage: Repatriation and Sacred Sites (Chelsea House Publishers 2005) is aimed toward creating an awareness of Native American issues among high school students. Larry J. Zimmerman is Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies and Public Scholar of Native American Representation at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. He is Vice President of the World Archaeological Congress. He also has served WAC as its Executive Secretary and as the organizer of the first WAC Inter-Congress on Archaeological Ethics and the Treatment of the Dead. His research interests include the archaeology of the North American Plains, contemporary American Indian issues, and his current project examining the archaeology of homelessness. Originally published in Spanish in Arqueología Suramericana 3(1), 2007     

BOOK REVIEWS

Church and City, 1000-1500: Essays in Honour of Christopher Brooke. Michigan State University Bureaucrats and Beggars: French Social Policy in the Age of Enlightenment. Fordham University The Revolution of 1905: Authority Restored. University of North Carolina, Greensboro The Tudor Nobility. Clemson University Liberty, Retrenchment, and Reform: Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860–1860. Wayland Baptist University Martin Luther: Theology and Revolution. Portland State University Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401–1401. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Religion, Law, and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland, 1660–1660. Office of the District Attorney, Nassau County, New York Trotsky, Stalin, and Socialism. University of Northern Iowa Cities of the Gods: Communist Utopias in Greek Thought. University of California, Berkeley Charles, Earl Grey: Aristocratic Reformer. Houston Baptist University Target Hitler: The Plots to Kill Hitler. Illinois College Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1919. University of Nottingham Patients, Power, and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol. Eastern Illinois University The Divided Nation: A History of Germany, 1918-1990. By Mary Fulbrook. University of Tampa Shokan–Hirohito's Samurai: Leaders of the Japanese Armed Forces, 1926–1926. SUNY, Stony Brook Hidden Ally: The French Resistance, Special Operations and the Landings in Southern France, 1944. University of Reading Landownership and Power in Modern Europe. Oxford University Winning the Peace: British Diplomatic Strategy, Peace Planning, and the Paris Peace Conference, 1916–1916. Valparaiso University Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850–1850. West Texas State University Secrets of the Kingdom: British Radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688–1688. University College, Swansea The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. College of Charleston The Baltic and the Outbreak of the Second World War. SUNY, New Paltz The Later Crusades: From Lyons to Alcazar, 1274–1274. Holy Cross College The Palestinian Uprising: A War by Other Means. Tel Aviv University Liberty Secured? Britain before and after 1688. University of Kansas Scotland and War: A.D. Notre Dame College of Ohio Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. Oklahoma State University Charles James Fox. Eckerd College A World without Women: The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science. Texas A&M University The Engineer of Revolution: L. Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Germany's Rude Awakening: Censorship in the Land of the Brothers Grimm. St. Bernadotte: Napoleon's Marshal, Sweden's King. University of Leeds A Different World for Women: The Life of Millicent Garrett Fawcett. University of Houston, Victoria The Revolution of 1688: Changing Perspectives. University of North Carolina, Asheville Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. James Madison University Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians. Michigan State University Our Great Solicitor: Josiah C. Cameron University Theory as Practice: Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance. University of Maryland, Baltimore County Architecture and Power: The Town Hall and the English Urban Community c. Southeastern Louisiana University The Early Germans. Illinois State University Community and Commerce in late Medieval Japan: The Corporate Villages of Tokuchin-ho. Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century. York University, England Milton's History of Britain: Republican Historiography in the English Revolution. Florida State University National Crisis and National Government: British Politics, the Economy and Empire, 1926–1926. University of Portland Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred. Southern Methodist University Singing the Master: The Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South. Pennsylvania State University Conservative Constraints: North Carolina and the New Deal. Tennessee Technological University The Eagle-Dragon Alliance: America's Relations with China in World War Two. Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva John Marshall Harlan: The Last Whig justice. University of Tulsa A Ship to Remember: The Maine and the Spanish-American War. University of Oklahoma The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. Cornell University Unholy Grail: The U.S. Saint Joseph's University Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864. University of Maryland, College Park France and the United States: The Cold Alliance since World War II. University of Leicester This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga. Oklahoma Baptist University Watergate and Afterward: The Legacy of Richard M. City University of New York We Need Men: The Union Draft in the Civil War. University of North Dakota Richard The Salem Witch Crisis. Pomona College Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains. Fort Hays State University Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard. New Mexico State University The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America. Pine Manor College A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War. Union College The Business of May Next: James Madison and the Founding. Berea College Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920–1920. Cazenovia College Early American Methodism. Wright State University, Dayton In the Web of Class: Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s. Fairmont State College The U.S. Raymond G. University of Miami The American Political Nation, 1838–1838. University of Wisconsin, Madison John Randolph Haynes: California Progressive. James Madison University The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773–1773. El Camino College The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent. Purdue University John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire. University of Colorado, Boulder Aspirations and Anxieties: New England Workers and the Mechanized Factory System, 1815–1815. Plymouth State College The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State. African Philosophy: Traditional Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary African Realities. Austin Toyin Falola The Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550–1550. Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario The African Experience. Arizona State University The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876–1876. Arizona State University White Dreams, Black Africa: The Anti-Slavery Expedition to the River Niger, 1841–1841. Science Applications International Coloration Science and Technology in African History with Case Studies from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. University of Texas, Austin     

REVIEW

Tongan Culture and History: Papers from the 1st Tongan History Conference held in Canberra 14–17 January, 1987. Edited by Phyllis Herda, Jennifer Terrell and Niel Gunson. Canberra: Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. 1990.     

Interview with Gilbert C. Fite

Born in 1918, reared and educated in South Dakota, Gilbert C. Fite took his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri. He is a historian of U.S. agriculture, particularly the impact of technology, economics, and politics on midwestern and southern farming since the late nineteenth century. He has written nine books, co-authored seven more, edited three volumes, and published over sixty articles. Former president of Eastern Illinois University, the Agricultural History Society and the Southern and Western Historical Associations, Fite has long been very active in Phi Alpha Theta and served as its president from 1981–1983. He taught at the University of Oklahoma for twenty-six years and held the Richard B. Russell Professorship of American History at the University of Georgia for a decade. He and his wife, June, were married in 1941, have two sons, and live in Bella Vista, Arkansas, where this interview was conducted by Roger Adelson in August 1993.     

Interview with Paul Sweet

Paul R. Sweet is a retired Foreign Service Officer and professor emeritus of the Department of History at Michigan State University. Dr. Sweet received his B.A. degree from DePauw University in 1929 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1934. He has taught at Birmingham-Southern College, Bates College, the University of Chicago, Colby College, and Michigan State University. From 1948 to 1959 he served with the U.S. Department of State and from 1953 to 1963 at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn; from 1963 to 1967 he was U.S. Consul General at Stuttgart. He co-authored The Tragedy of Austria (1948), and is the author of Friedrich von Gentz: Defender of the Old Order (1941), and Wilhelm von Humboldt: a Biography 1767–1808 (1978). He and his wife live in East Lansing, Michigan, where this interview was conducted by Linda Cooke Johnson in October 1996.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Logos Islamikos: Studia Islamica in Honorem Georgii Michaelis Wickens. Edited by Roger M. Savory and Dionisius A. Aguis. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1984. vii plus 351 pp. Bibliography. Index. $32.00. Actes du premier congrès international d'études arabes chrétiennes. Edited by Khalil Samir. [Orientalia Christiana Analecta 218]. Rome; Pont. Institutum Studiorum Orientalium, 1982. 312 pp. 21.000 Lire it. Palast, Moschee und Wüstenschloss Das Werden der islamischen Kunst 7.-9. Jahrhundert. By Heinrich Gerhard Franz. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1984. 166 pp. 72 Text Figures. 166 Photographs in 64 Plates. DM 54.-. A Wife For My Son. By Ali Ghalem. Chicago: Banner Press, 1984 (orig. ed., 1979, in French). 211 pp. $5.95. Islam, Christianity, and African Identity. By Sulayman S. Nyang. Brattleboro, Vermont: Amana Books, 1984. 106 pp. $6.95. The Economic Functions of the Early Islamic State. By S.M. Hasan-uz-Zaman. Karachi, Pakistan: International Islamic Publishers, 1981. xvi plus 370 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Paperback, n.p. Man Is a Cause: Political Consciousness and the Fiction of Ghassan Kanafani. By Muhammad Siddiq. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1984. 108 pp. Chronology. Bibliography. $9.95, paperback. Islam and Revolution in Africa. By Aziz A. Batran. Brattleboro, VT: Amana Books, 1984. 51 pp. $4.95. A Clarification of Questions: An Unabridged Translation of Risaleh Tawzih al-Masael. By Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini. Translated by J. Borujerdi with a foreword by Michael M.J. Fischer and Mehdi Abedi. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1984. xxxiv plus 432 pp. Indices. Appendices, n.p. The State and Revolution in Iran. By Hossein Bashiriyeh. London: Croom Helm and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. 203 pp. Bibliography, Index. $27.50. Oceidentosis: A Plague From the West. By Jalal Al-I Ahmad. Translated by R. Campbell. Annotations and Introduction by Hamid Algar. Berkeley: Mizan Press, 1984. 137 pp. Notes and Index. $5.95. A Calendar of Documents on Indo-Persian Relations (1500-1750) [Volumes I & II]. By Riazul Islam. Karachi: Iranian Culture Foundation, Tehran, and Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, Karachi, 1979, 1982. Vol. I, xxviii plus 511 pp. Vol. II, xxv plus 489 pp. $30.00 for each volume. The Bahr Ul-Asrār, Travelogue of South Asia. By Mahmūd b. Am?r Wal? Balkh?. Edited by Riazul Islam. Karachi: Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, University of Karachi, 1980. 55 plus 106 pp. $5.00. The Majma' Al-Shur'arā' I-Jahāng?r Shāh?. By Mullā Qāti?- Heraw?. Edited by Muhammad Saleem Akhtar. Karachi: Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, University of Karachi, 1979. xvii & 42 plus 402 pp. $12.00. Islamic Thought and Culture. Edited by Ismā'?l R. al-Fārūq?. Washington, D.C.: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1402/1982. 121 pp. n.p. Essays in Islamic and Comparative Studies. Edited by Ismā'?l R. al-Fārūq?. Washington, D.C.: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1402/1982. 120 pp. n.p. Muslims in the West, the Message and Mission. By Syed Abdul Hassan Ali Nadwi. London: The Islamic Foundation, 1983. 191 pp. n.p. The Middle East Political Dictionary. By Lawrence Ziring. Santa Barbara, California and Oxford, England: ABC-CLIO Information Services, 1984. xviii plus 452 pp. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index, n.p. The Writing of History in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: A Study in National Transformation. By Jack A. Crabbs, Jr. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, and Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1984. 227 pp. $22.50, paper.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review in this Articles Studies in Islamic History and Institutions. Bt S.D. Goitein. Dalil al-Mustalahāt al-D?n?ya: Ingl?zi-Arabi (A Wordbook of Relgion: English-Arabic). By Richard W. Thomas. Icon and Minaret: Sources of Byzantine and Islamic Civilization. Edited by Charles M. Foundations of Pakistan: All-India Muslim League Documents, 1906-1947. Edited by Sharifuddin Pirzada Arab Socialism. Edited by Sami A. Hanna and George H. Gardner. Ibn Khaldū in Egypt, His Public Functions and His Historical Research (182-1406): A Study in Islamic Historiography. By Wallter J. Fischel. Middle Eastern Cities, A Symposium on Ancient, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Urbanism. Edited by Lra M. Lapidus. The Day of Maysalū: A Page from the Modem History of the Arans. By Abū Khaldū Sä al-Husr?, tr. The Political Awakening in the Middle East. Edited by George Lenczowski. Arab & jew in Israel: A Case Study in a Human Relations Approach in Conflict. By Martin Lakin The Nature of Normadism: A comparative Study of Pastoral Migrations in Southwestern Asia and Northern Africa. By Douglas L. Johnson. Tunisia. By Wilfrid Knapp. The Geography of al-Andalus and Europe, from the book al-Masä wal-Mamolik (“The Routes and the Contries”). BY abū Ubayd al-Bakr?; America and the Mediterranean World, 1776-1882. By James A. Field, Jr. The Amercan Apporach th the Arab World. By John S. Badeau. American University of Be?; Festival Book (Festschrift). Edited by Fuäd Sarrūf and Suha Tamin.     

中国现代史学科体系的建立与发展——以王桧林主编的北京师范大学版《中国现代史》教材为例

中国现代史学科体系是在与党史和革命史体系逐渐区别开来的过程中初步确立和发展起来的。李新等人主编的《中国新民主主义革命时期通史》奠定了中国现代史的基本框架。王桧林主编的北京师大版《中国现代史》继承和发展了这一框架。它的撰写、修改、趋向完备是和中国现代史学科的形成密切结合着的,它所提出的“三条道路、两个斗争、一个结局”的中国社会的演变规律为史学界所公认,它为中国现代史学科体系的初步建立和发展做出了贡献。     

在跨界中寻求突破——刘宏对海外华人研究的理论、方法与实证的探索

本文结合刘宏教授的主要学术经历,着重从跨"界"的角度探讨他在海外华人研究领域的治学方法和理念。认为其跨学科研究取向主要表现在以下两个方面。第一,比较视野下的海外华人研究。第二,将西方的社会科学理论有选择地引入到海外华人研究领域,并加以丰富和修正。刘宏的多元治学方法主要表现在研究取向的跨学科性、参与实践性及其与政策的相关性、研究论题和视野的多重性。而"中国—东南亚学"、"跨国华人"和"跨界亚洲"是刘宏所提出的三个重要"跨界"理念,三者之间彼此关联,视野从区域到全球,它们从整体上反映了刘宏近年来的跨界思考历程和研究框架。