《通胀螺旋》一书是作者张嘉璈先生以其自身经历，全貌地记录了中国自1937年抗日战争全面爆发到1949年间的通货膨胀发展过程。
因历史和社会政治原因，战前的中国国力羸弱，维持抗战并非易事。作者以当事者的身份，从中国的财政、金融、交通运输、工农业发展、外国援助及中日货币战等诸多方面，详细记录了抗日战争及国共对抗时期战场之外的中国历史。这本书是一部抗战和社会动荡时期的货币史、财政史和普罗大众的社会生活史。
书中关于政府治理、币制改革变迁、中国新式（现代）银行业的发展、财政弊端、城乡／东西部“二元”结构、中国对外贸易的作用等问题的讲述，被西方官学界视为了解发展中经济体发展状况的借鉴，对于今天的中国同样具有参考价值。

《中国人留学日本史(修订译本)》，本书以大量第一手资料，包括书信、日记、著译书刊、口述史料以及档案文牍等为据，详述这一留学运动的缘起和演变、留日学生就读的学校和课程及组织、活动，并专章讨论留日学生对中国近代社会思想、政治、教育、文学、语言、翻译、出版等各方面的贡献和影响。此次以香港中文大学1982年版的中译本为底本修订，纠正了谬误，并增加了有关作者学术成就的述评文字，以飨读者。

首届联邦国会是美国历史上最富有成效的一届议会，在美国历史及人类政治文明进程中具划时代意义。它将宪法从一卷羊皮纸转变为强有力的政治机制和灵活的政治实践，将共和的梦想落实为有血有肉的现实。
然而，首届国会召开于风雨飘摇之时，奴隶制的幽灵始终盘桓在国会的上空，它将阶级矛盾、南北方、东西部、虚弱无力的联邦与各自为政的诸州，宪法与反宪法等问题纠缠在一起；国会内部也充斥着个人偏见和地区之间的不信任、内部交易，以及平庸之辈的怠惰。混乱、偏见、敌视、不睦笼罩着国会中形形色色的利益团体。如何从一张纸开始建构新政府？宪法的崇高性如何落实到政治机制的运作中？高不可攀的抽象理论能否化为日常的政治实践？制度运作中如何平衡利益、制约权力？面对一系列盘根错节的现实问题，国会议员们深知：国家存亡端赖各方的谈判与妥协。
1789—1791年，国会议员们展开了漫长的讨价还价。谦逊宽容的华盛顿，雄辩实干的麦迪逊，头脑精密、富有卓识的汉密尔顿，性情刚烈、信奉共和的格里，坚定的反联邦主义者麦克莱……这些来自不同地域，拥有不同个性，秉持不同政治立场，代表不同利益的建国者们纵横于各利益团体之间，极尽游说之能，尽显政治风采，将政治智慧与政治手腕运用得炉火纯青，虽偶有私心，但仍将公众利益与宪法的崇高性置于私利之上。最终，在一片混乱与分歧中，各利益团体在重大问题上达成妥协，《权利法案》《联邦税收法案》《司法法》《国家银行法案》相继签署，宪政运作机制在无序中循序渐进。
首届国会的成功绝非历史必然，它是政治角力、鲜明个性、不同理念以及超凡决心合奏的史诗华章。它所灌注的多元利益团体之间谈判与妥协的精神，锻造出美国此后两百多年精巧别致的政治机制运作的品格，为美国宪法注入源源不断的生命力。

启蒙运动是西方文化的重要分水岭，关于它的哲学和历史学解释却一直令人困惑。作者认为，必须从社会文化史的视角重新审视才能理解其本质及重要性。作者通过分析18世纪以来哲学家和历史学家如何界定、阐释启蒙，双方在研究方法和研究目的上的分野，对启蒙观念所遭受的误解、滥用和捍卫进行了深刻的反思。启蒙运动是“现代性的试验场”，是一场影响深远的文化变革，它重塑了西方的身份认同，通过人权的发明革新了政治，创造出一种批判文化，并重新定义了知识，从根本上改变了人类对自我和生活的认知。
本书是启蒙运动研究权威学者文森佐·费罗内三十年研究的集大成著作，突破了英语世界的主流观点，是关于启蒙观念的第一个详尽解释。

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The third volume of The Cambridge History of Communism spans the period from the 1960s to the present, documenting the last two decades of the global Cold War and the collapse of Soviet socialism. An international team of scholars analyze the rise of China as a global power continuing to proclaim its Maoist allegiance, and the transformation of the geopolitics and political economy of Cold War conflict in an era of increasing economic interpenetration. Beneath the surface, profound political, social, economic and cultural changes were occurring in the socialist and former socialist countries, resulting in the collapse and transformations of the existing socialist order and the changing parameters of world Marxism. This volume draws on innovative research to bring together history from above and below, including social, cultural, gender, and transnational history to transcend the old separation between Communist studies and the broader field of contemporary history.

进入20世纪过后，中国军队开始走向现代化改造的进程，在受到西方现代军事思想的影响后，中国军队试图为自己配备合适的远程火力，在这样的大前提下，促成了近现代野战炮兵部队的诞生。诞生之初，受国力之困，不但无法生产炮兵装备，在选择具体型号时也遇到众多困难，直到正式下定决心选定一国为参照创建为止，中国野战炮兵部队的发展才踏上了正轨。至1937年，中国野战炮兵部队已经建立起一套完整的体系，能够根据自己的需要培训出合格的人才。本书全面系统地讲述了1937年前，中国野战炮兵部队的发展历程。

《文本中的历史:藏传佛教在西域和中原的传播》是一本记录藏传佛教的文化传播的书籍，内容翔实，资料来源真实可靠。从敦煌古藏文献研究、西夏时代藏传密教文献研究、汉译萨思迦派文献研究等方面一一阐述，学术性较强。

这是一本关于数字在人类文明和人类社会发展进程中发挥作用的简史类佳作，作者用故事化的语言介绍了人类学、认知心理学、语言学、进化论等多领域跨学科的新研究成果，为读者详细介绍了数字概念的由来及演化，破除了人们对数字司空见惯的印象，令人们重新认识数字这一发明之于人类的重大意义和深刻影响。

"A Shostakovich Casebook" brings together 25 essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews - many newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union - to create a volume of essential reading and cutting-edge scholarship in Russian music studies. The contributors include Malcolm H. Brown, Laurel Fay, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, and Richard Taruskin. Malcolm Hamrick Brown is founding editor of the series "Russian Music Studies". From the time he was a graduate-exchange student at the Moscow Conservatory in 1962, he has been continuously involved in teaching, lecturing, writing, and publishing on Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet music.

Today scientific, technological and cultural knowledge is shared worldwide. The extent to which globalized knowledge also existed in the past is an open question and, moreover, a question that is important for understanding present processes of globalization. This book, the first volume of the series "Studies" of the "Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge," the result of an interdisciplinary cooperation launched in 2007 by a Dahlem Conference, offers surprising answers to this question.
Long-distance and intercontinental connections with an attendant spread of knowledge are as old as Homo sapiens themselves. Since its inception, the globalization of knowledge has been a process with its own dynamics, interfering significantly with other processes of intercultural transmission. The four parts of this volume address historical phases in which the production, transmission and transformation of knowledge were crucial for advancing these processes. Part 1 investigates a series of processes in the very early phases of globalization, from the transmission of practical knowledge to the emergence of science. Part 2 explores how knowledge was disseminated as a consequence of the spread of power and belief structures. Part 3 deals with the encounters between culturally specific knowledge and globalized knowledge. Part 4 is dedicated to the globalization of modern science and to the great challenges, such as energy supply and climate change, that humanity faces when dealing with knowledge today
The 97th Dahlem Workshop:
The present volume is based on the 97th Dahlem Workshop on Globalization of Knowledge and its Consequences, Berlin, 18–23 November 2007, coordinated by Katharina Ochse.
Participants:
Ian Baldwin, Angelo Baracca, Fabio Bevilacqua, Maria Emilia Beyer, Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Gianluca Bocchi, István M. Bodnár, Jens Erland Braarvig, Chiara Brambilla, Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Jacob Dahl, Peter Damerow, Hansjörg Dilger, Kostas Gavroglu, Matteo Gerlini, Denise Gimpel, Gerd Graßhoff, Hans Falk Hoffmann, Dirk Hofäcker, Jarita C. Holbrook, Malcolm D. Hyman, Birgit Krawietz, Manfred Krebernik, Joachim Kurtz, Manolis Patiniotis, Albert Presas I Puig, Daniel T. Potts, Dhruv Raina, Jürgen Renn, Richard Rottenburg, Dagmar Schäfer, Matthias Schemmel, Mark Schiefsky, Meredith Schuman, Gebhard J. Selz, Martina Siebert, Circe Mary Silva da Silva, Ana Simões, Tzveta Sofronieva, Saran Solongo, Karin Tybjerg, Hans Ulrich Vogel, Milena Wazeck, Gerhard Wolf, Harriet T. Zurndorfer

Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. Ramachandra Guha's hugely acclaimed book tells the full story - the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories - of the world's largest and least likely democracy. While India is sometimes the most exasperating country in the world, it is also the most interesting. Ramachandra Guha writes compellingly of the myriad protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India. Moving between history and biography, the story of modern India is peopled with extraordinary characters. Guha gives fresh insights on the lives and public careers of those longserving Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. But this book also writes with feeling and sensitivity about lesser known (though not necessarily less important) Indians - peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians. Massively researched and elegantly written, "India After Gandhi" is a remarkable account of India's rebirth, and a work already hailed as a masterpiece of single volume history.

《异端的权利》讲述的是欧洲大陆在灿烂黎明之后重新沦为黑夜时的一个小故事。宗教改革英雄加尔文此时已经是日内瓦君临一切的最高统治者和暴君。而温和的充满人道主义气质的学者卡斯特利奥，以“苍蝇战大象”式的勇气，对加尔文的倒行逆施展开了英勇的对抗。如果不读茨威格的这本书，加尔文在人们心中完全是概念化的、光辉的形象：改革家、反封建斗士，他站在历史的一个阶梯上，与无数长袍长髯的伟人排在一起。如果不读茨威格，谁也不能那么明白地知道，就是这个因怀有理想而受迫害、遭追捕、不得不亡命他乡的新兴资产阶级，一旦登上权力的宝座，对那些曾是、甚至依旧是他的朋友和同志的人，会表现出那样的常人难以置信的专横、残忍与卑劣。这些人根本没有丝毫觊觎他的权势的念头，不过想就几个纯学术问题与他商榷――货真价实的商榷，因为文稿是在未发表之前，就寄给了“亲爱的兄弟”敬请指正的。

《古代文史研究新探》是作者在古代文史方面的论文结果,包括古籍整理、古代语文、古代历史、古器物4部分内容。

釋太虛是民國佛教史上最具魄力的佛教改革家，也是一位對時代最具敏銳觀察力的佛教思想家，他生於清光緒15年（1890年），光緒30年16歲時出家，1947年3月17日圓寂。從1912迄1947年他圓寂期間，為他主要活動的年代，幾乎與1912至1949年的民國時期相當。本書以「太虛時代」為題，探討釋太虛本人，以及他本人涉及的：「革命與佛教」、「佛教與政治」、「佛教、軍事與戰爭」、「佛教與經濟」、「佛教與外交」等不同面向（議題），藉以勾勒出1912至1949年間的「民國佛教」。由於釋太虛在民國佛教史上，有其特別重要的地位，而且他所從事的佛教文化事業，對於他所處的時代曾發生極大影響，他所提出的佛教革新與佛教文化理念，對於我們所處的當代，仍深具啟示之價值與意義，此為作者撰寫本書之用意。

《清初政治史探微》（以下简称《探微》）包括前编和后编两部分。前编是我的博士论文《满族八旗制国家初探》（以下简称《初探》），后编由三篇文章组成。《初探》的任务是解决八旗制格局之上的国家形态。为此，首先要对八旗制有我自己的界定。在我看来，八旗是满族发展到特定的历史阶段和特殊历史环境的产物。八旗既是社会组织的最高形式，同时又是满族社会和国家的基本格局，故而我将满族国家称之为八旗制国家。建立在八旗制之上的国家主要机构与八旗制本身的矛盾统一运动，构成《初探》一以贯之的线索。从时间跨度而言，《初探》大致涵盖了太祖、太宗两朝，即入关前满族国家政治的主要内容。后编三篇文章，是《初探》的续篇，分别论述多尔衮摄政时期、清世祖福临亲政十年以及康熙初年四辅臣阶段。三篇的宗旨只有一个，就是探讨入关后满族八旗制对清初国家体制及政局的影响。这三篇文章都是旧题，我并非刻意求新，只是从自己对入关前满族国家政治的理解出发，重新进行了一遍梳理。

Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism (1978), Said described the "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture."[12] He argued that a long tradition of false and romanticized images of Asia and the Middle East in Western culture had served as an implicit justification for Europe and America's colonial and imperial ambitions. Just as fiercely, he denounced the practice of Arab elites who internalized the American and British orientalists' ideas of Arabic culture.
In 1980 Said criticized what he regarded as poor understanding of the Arab culture in the West:
“ So far as the United States seems to be concerned, it is only a slight overstatement to say that Moslems and Arabs are essentially seen as either oil suppliers or potential terrorists. Very little of the detail, the human density, the passion of Arab-Moslem life has entered the awareness of even those people whose profession it is to report the Arab world. What we have instead is a series of crude, essentialized caricatures of the Islamic world presented in such a way as to make that world vulnerable to military aggression.[13] ”
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Orientalism has had a significant impact on the fields of literary theory, cultural studies and human geography, and to a lesser extent on those of history and oriental studies. Taking his cue from the work of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, and from earlier critics of western Orientalism such as A. L. Tibawi,[14] Anouar Abdel-Malek,[15] Maxime Rodinson,[16] and Richard William Southern,[17] Said argued that Western writings on the Orient, and the perceptions of the East purveyed in them, are suspect, and cannot be taken at face value. According to Said, the history of European colonial rule and political domination over the East distorts the writings of even the most knowledgeable, well-meaning and sympathetic Western ‘Orientalists’ (a term that he transformed into a pejorative):
“ I doubt if it is controversial, for example, to say that an Englishman in India or Egypt in the later nineteenth century took an interest in those countries which was never far from their status in his mind as British colonies. To say this may seem quite different from saying that all academic knowledge about India and Egypt is somehow tinged and impressed with, violated by, the gross political fact – and yet that is what I am saying in this study of Orientalism. (Said, Orientalism 11) ”
Said contended that Europe had dominated Asia politically so completely for so long that even the most outwardly objective Western texts on the East were permeated with a bias that even most Western scholars could not recognise. His contention was not only that the West has conquered the East politically but also that Western scholars have appropriated the exploration and interpretation of the Orient’s languages, history and culture for themselves. They have written Asia’s past and constructed its modern identities from a perspective that takes Europe as the norm, from which the "exotic", "inscrutable" Orient deviates.
Said concludes that Western writings about the Orient depict it as an irrational, weak, feminised "Other", contrasted with the rational, strong, masculine West, a contrast he suggests derives from the need to create "difference" between West and East that can be attributed to immutable "essences" in the Oriental make-up. In 1978, when the book was first published, with memories of the Yom Kippur war and the OPEC crisis still fresh, Said argued that these attitudes still permeated the Western media and academia. After stating the central thesis, Orientalism consists mainly of supporting examples from Western texts.

《好奇年代》讲述的是科学史上的一段“接力”，它发生在18世纪末的英国，是科学的浪漫时代。书中主角天文学家赫歇耳和化学家戴维，他们的发现是浪漫时代的代表，他们本人也是不同类型的“浪漫主义”科学家。《好奇年代》生动描述了浪漫科学时代的特征：为了好奇而追求科学发现，在科学发现里洋溢着热情和想象。那年月，诗人是科学家，大自然是他们神秘的缪斯女神。