Early American technological Edens

Howard P. Segal, Technological Utopianism in American Culture, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1985     

早期进藏的美国人(英文)

The earliest contacts between the United States and Tibet were unofficial and non-governmental.To the Americans,it was the travellers,explorers     

美国新闻界与国会报道自由

美国宪法规定国会对公众开放,但这并不意味着作为人民耳目和代言人的新闻界就能够自由、真实、全面地报道国会的活动了。为此新闻界在众议院和参议院都进行了长期的斗争。新闻界在经历由党派报纸向商业报纸过渡的过程中,持续推动以国会报道自由的形式公开美国国会信息。经过与国会特权、保密行为长达半个多世纪的博弈,终于取得了稳定的驻国会山记者团制度,使美国国会成为最早得到系统信息公开报道的政府部门。     

我们需要什么样的美国早期史

2006年秋天,在南开大学任教的美国早期史知名学者阿伦·库利科夫,着手筹备在中国召开一次美国早期史的国际学术研讨会.他与我商量邀请中国学者的事,希望我提供一个名单.我当时不假思索地告诉他,中国从事早期史研究的人相当少,如果要吸收一定数量的中国学者参加会议,只有两个办法:一是延展早期史的时间下限,二是对研究生敞开大门.当会议正式召开时,中方与会者多达40余人,其主力确实是研究生,此外还包括不少研究19世纪前期和中期的学者,而真正专攻早期史的学者则为数寥寥.     

Alternative Cartographies of the British Women’s Movement

Books reviewed in this article: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866–1928 Peter Gordon and David Doughan, with a foreword by Sheila Rowbotham, Dictionary of British Women’s Organisations 1825–1960 Sybil Oldfield, Collective Biography of Women in Britain, 1550–1900: A Select Annotated Bibliography     

Mobile Cartographies and Mobilized Ideologies: The Visual Management of Jerusalem

This article analyses a recent ideological shift in the visual management of Jerusalem. Through two case studies in the real estate and tourism industries we show how mobile technologies are shaping both actual settings in, and visual consumption of, Jerusalem. The analysis points at the creation of a “tunnel vision” for consumers and visitors, which promotes Jewish hegemony in the city and simultaneous detachment from Palestinian spaces and histories. This tunnel vision situates the viewers in physical and simulated enclaves within the city, creating a relationship of distance and elevation to promote their embodied identification with Israel's Judaizing mission for the area, primarily the Holy Basin. This mode of viewing Jerusalem is evocative of Israel's post‐second intifada policies and the concurrent rise of right‐wing ideologies, which relegate to the margins alternative readings of the contested urban landscape.     

美国早期银行纷争及其深远影响

货币银行问题是美国历史上最持久而剧烈的政治争端之一。围绕美国第一银行和第二银行建立和展期(重新给予特许)问题的斗争,是其主要发端。杰弗逊、杰克逊时代的银行纷争,实质上反映了效率优先和公平优先两种思想的矛盾冲突。汉密尔顿及其追随立足于经济长期稳定发展,强调私人经营联邦银行、集中管理货币银行体系的效率,但却忽视了货币银行体系的财富和权力分配效应;而杰弗逊杰克逊主义则更注重于追求社会公正、经济公平,为了保护社会弱势群体的利益,即使以牺牲健全稳定的货币银行体系为代价也在所不惜。美国早期的银行纷争,对美国货币银行体系的发展,尤其对联邦储备体系的形成和发展产生了意义深远的影响。