When fashion met industry. Biki and Gruppo Finanziario Tessile (1957–72)

In 1957, Silvio Rivetti (1921–61), heir to a long-standing Italian entrepreneurial dynasty and owner and manager of Gruppo Finanziario Tessile (GFT), asked Biki (Elvira Leonardi Bouyere, 1906–99) to design sketches for a womenswear collection to be produced by GFT. Conventionally considered by fashion historians as the first example of a collaboration between the fickle world of fashion and rationally planned industrial production, the partnership between the couturière and the biggest Italian clothing company never really succeeded and eventually resulted in failure, in 1972. The origins and development of the collaboration, its relevance for the evolution of commercial law, the economic value of the GFT collections designed by Biki, and the market response to them are the main topics dealt with in this paper. Based on historical sources unknown until now, it aims to show that the GFT–Biki partnership can be considered a milestone when studying the relationship between fashion and industry.     

20世纪中国农业与农村变迁的跨学科考察--中国农业历史学会第九次学术研讨会综述

在南京举行的中国农业历史学会第九次学术研讨会,集中讨论了20世纪中国农业和农村变迁问题,涉及政治、经济、社会、技术、生态等方面。交叉性、时代性、前瞻性,是本次研讨会的主要特点。     

20世纪初期城市知识阶层收入状况初探

20世纪初期,中国城市社会群体结构发生了巨大的变化,出现了公务员、编辑、记者、教师、医生、职员、经理、工程技术人员、自由职业者等新型的知识群体,作为社会雇员阶层,他们的劳动报酬决定着他们个人的声望和社会地位。由他们的劳动往往对生产力发展和城市社会进步有较大促进作用,其收入报酬要比普通劳动者高出许多。本文通过对知识阶层收入状况的研究,探讨该时期城市知识阶层能够为城市近代化所做的贡献。     

Excavating Utopia: Why Archaeologists Should Study “Ideal” Communities of the Nineteenth Century

The study of utopias is riddled with contradictions: we admire and fear them; they are a radical critique of the modernist societies that surround them, and yet they are in some ways the archetypal product of modernity. This paper suggests that studying Utopia could be of value in analyzing some of the complexities and contradictions of Western society and ideology in the nineteenth century, as well as causing us to question some of the preconceptions we regularly bring to the study of the archaeological past. Finally I will suggest that a different kind of nineteenth century, one which includes the radical dissent and resistance of utopian thinkers and experimenters, provides a strong basis for a critique of the social values of modern capitalism.     

20世纪中国的史学方法论研究

20世纪中国史学方法论研究,是一笔丰厚的史学遗产。从梁启超的《新史学》,到三四十年代一系列史学理论方法论读本的出版,再到当代台湾的史学方法论研究,是新史学派史学方法发展的大体脉络。从李大钊对马克思主义历史观的介绍和宣传,到郭沫若所代表的开始用马克思主义研究中国历史的尝试和实践,再到翦伯赞的《历史哲学教程》的出版,标志着中国马克思主义史学发展的第一阶段;从50到70年代是马克思主义史学方法广泛普及和曲折发展的时期;改革开放以后的20年,是中国马克思主义史学史上方法论研究空前繁荣和活跃的时期。总结百年来的史学方法论研究,给新世纪史学发展留下了诸多启示。     

论20世纪资本主义发展的制约因素

20世纪资本主义发展的制约因素,主要有以下十个方面：科学技术革命、现代化进程、市场与政府、经济发展和经济周期、现代化和改革、经济结构和社会结构、现代社会保障、经济全球化和区域化、政治民主化和思想文化多元化、战争与和平。     

十九世纪的华人私会党与马来亚锡矿业

十九世纪马来亚锡矿业的发展与华人私会党息息相关 ,华人私会党力量的消长决定了锡矿业的起落沉浮 ,二者的历史荣衰与共。本文从十九世纪华人私会党对马来亚锡矿业发展的影响这一角度出发 ,分三个时期 (一、十八世纪末至十九世纪四十年代末 :马来亚锡矿业的初步发展时期 ;二、十九世纪五十年代至八十年代末 :华人私会党垄断锡矿业时期 ;三、十九世纪九十年代至二十世纪十年代 ,华人私会党对锡矿业的影响衰落时期 )阐述了华人私会党与马来亚锡矿业之间的关系 ,探讨了私会党对锡矿业发展带来的利与弊。     

The Sherrington–Cushing connection: A bench to bedside collaboration at the dawn of the twentieth century

ABSTRACT

British physiologist Charles Sherrington (1857–1952) and American neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing (1869–1939) were seminal figures in the history of neuroscience. The two came from different worlds, one laboratory-based and the other largely clinical. Their scientific intersection, beginning in July 1901, provides a glimpse into a nascent form of “bench to bedside” collaboration, which carried with it the potential to extend the arm of neurophysiological experimentation from Sherrington’s laboratory to Cushing’s operatory. I reviewed extensive primary source materials archived at Yale University School of Medicine Library. Sherrington viewed Cushing’s bedside work as an opportunity, in humans, to extend his bench-side physiological observations on higher primates, at times almost directing Cushing in the clinic. Cushing would indeed take Sherrington’s observations on apes and extend them to his patients, and the work would eventually overturn the prevailing notion that the motor and sensory cortex were intermixed across the Rolandic fissure.