北朝谱学与北朝政治

北朝谱学是北朝史学的一个重要组成部分,它较为突出地反映了史学与政治的密切关系。北朝谱学的发展从一个方面反映了北朝政治的特点和变化。反过来,谱学也成为建立门阀新秩序和门阀士族维护其各种特权的工具。北朝谱学一个很重要的特点是它与统治集团内部的政治斗争密切关联。同时,与南朝一样,北朝谱学在选官、婚姻等方面也发挥着重要作用,表现出这一时期谱学鲜明的政治倾向。     

Threads: Collecting Cloth in the North American French Colonies

Trade of European-produced cloth and clothing enabled indigenous and non-indigenous inhabitants of colonial New France to rethink the “hand-woven”, impacting how self could be presented through dress. At the same time, objects were being collected in New France for cabinets of curiosities and museums. These different collections resonated in different ways through history, subsequently influencing modern understandings of colonial cloth and clothing. This paper examines colonial experiences of cloth by looking at archaeological remnants of cloth and cloth production as compared to how indigenous and non-indigenous colonial peoples were and are being represented by cloth and clothing in museum collections.     

Taubeneck's Laws: Third Parties in American Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century

Third parties were a persistent and important aspect of American politics after the Civil War and have been as well a continuing focus of scholarly interest. This article discusses both the history and the historiography of the most prominent third party by examining the attitudes and actions of Herman E. Taubeneck, the national chairman of the People's or Populist Party. Taubeneck drew from his participation in and study of American politics to formulate a set of laws that he believed defined the creation, organization, direction, and success of third parties in the American political context. His analysis remarkably foreshadowed the ways in which modern scholars, drawing from several different disciplinary perspectives and methodologies, have only recently begun to explain and clarify the complex course of Populism. But Taubeneck's incomplete application of his own principles helped to disrupt and destroy the Populist Party itself.     

Perspectives on North American women

Arrom, Silvia Marina. The Women of Mexico City, 1790–1857. Stanford University Press, 1985. xii + 384 pp. including photographs, appendices, bibliography, and index. $42.50 cloth.

Bataille, Gretchen M., and Kathleen Mullen Sands. American Indian Women: Telling Their Lives. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. ix + 209 pp. including bibliography and index. $18.95 cloth.