明代以来江南市镇的内涵与发展——太湖南部四镇的个案剖析

明代以来江南地区出现了众多的市镇,各市镇的经济内涵是有所不同的,市镇经济内涵的形成与市镇发生的历史背景以及所处的地理位置有着十分重要的关系,而市镇的经济内涵又决定着市镇的发展前景.     

英格兰与苏格兰合并的历史渊源

13世纪末,苏格兰与英格兰的对手法国结成联盟,此联盟严重影响了英格兰的对法战争。在对法关系中剔除苏格兰因素,成为中世纪后期及近代早期英格兰努力征服、控制苏格兰的主要原因。1603年英格兰与苏格兰实现王位联合,通过王位联合英格兰达到了控制苏格兰的目的,但这只是暂时地解决了苏格兰问题。17世纪末18世纪初,英格兰与法国不可避免地成为近代争霸的两个主角,而此时的苏格兰议会已取代共主国王成为苏格兰的权力中心,英格兰无法再通过王位联合达到控制苏格兰的目的。为防止苏格兰与法国再度结盟,英格兰最终选择与苏格兰合并为大不列颠联合王国。     

The landed properties of northern Scotland

Progress in Agricultural Geography. Edited By Michael Pacione. 22 × 14, 267pp. Croom Helm, Beckenham, 1986. £27.95.

URBAN

Regional Cities in the U.K. 1890–1980. By G. Gordon (ed.). 23 × 15, 252 pp., Harper &; Row, London, 1986. £7.95.

Shopping Centre Development: Policies and Prospects, By John A. Dawson and J. Dennis Lord (editors), 269pp, Croom Helm, London, 1985. £19.95.

BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biogeography and Ecosystems of South Africa. By M. E. Meadows. 21 × 14, 153pp., South African Geography and Environmental Studies Series, Juta &; Co., Cape Town, 1985.

EDUCATIONAL

Inequality and Development. By Andrew Reed. 18.5 × 24.5, 96 pp., Man and Environment Series, Bell &; Hyman, London, 1985. £3.95.

Recreation and Tourism. By G. J. Ashworth. 18.5 × 24.5, 96 pp., Bell &; Hyman, London, 1984. £3.95.     

The Connection of Scotland with the Pilgrims of Grace

The largest and finest products of the Tournai school of brass engravers in the fourteenth century commemorate ecclesiastics and are to be found in northern Germany, to where it seems likely they were transported by the merchants of the important Hanse port of Lübeck. One of these, perhaps the finest brass ever produced by the school, commemorated two bishops of that city and lies in the cathedral. Two others, each to two bishops with the name of Bülow, are in the not very distant cathedral of Schwerin. We know of at least two others, formerly in cathedral churches at Schleswig and at Roskilde in Denmark.

The greatest use of these memorials was undoubtedly made however by the richer members of the merchant class themselves, made possible by their trade with Flanders through the major Kontor at Bruges. Although the number of these brasses surviving in the Baltic ports is disappointingly few there is record that considerable numbers were once there.     

English villages in the Londonderry plantation

Abstract

The English adventurers who created a ‘plantation’ throughout much of Ulster in the first quarter of the 17th century did so by seeking to transform the cultural landscape. The flowering of English cultural institutions could be enhanced within the appropriate environment, reasoned the plantation planners, and the ‘planting’ of villages was perhaps the most fundamental element of the programme to create that environment. The Ulster plantation provides an excellent opportunity to define early 17th-century English standards for the creation of a domestic settlement abroad, and perhaps also at home.