The Search for Modern China一书,认为是可以与徐中约的《中国近代史》(The Rise of Modern China)可媲美的。其专著封面的一汉字“争”,就让人不得不静心去品味历史了。历史跨度为明代晚期至1989年。徐老的为1600至2000年(第六版)。
《剑桥俄罗斯史》
This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early (‘Kievan’) Rus’ to the start of Peter the Great’s reign in 1689. It surveys the development of Russia through the Mongol invasions to the expansion of the Muscovite state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and deals with political, social, economic and cultural issues under the Riurikid and early Romanov rulers. The volume is organised on a primarily chronological basis, but a number of general themes are also addressed, including the bases of political legitimacy; lawandsociety; the interactions of Russians and non-Russians; and the relationship of the state with theOrthodox Church.The international team of authors
incorporates the latest Russian andWestern scholarship and offers an authoritative new account of the formative ‘pre-Petrine’ period of Russian history, before the process of Europeanisation had made
a significant impact on society and culture.
The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689–1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, diplomatic and military history. All the major Russian
social groups have separate chapters and the volume also includes surveys on the non-Russian peoples and the government’s policies towards them. It addresses themes such as women, law, the Orthodox Church, the police and the revolutionarymovement. The volume’s seven chapters on diplomatic and military history, andonRussia’s evolution as agreatpower,makeit themostdetailed study of these issues available in English. The contributors come from the USA, UK, Russia and Germany: most are internationally recognised as leading scholars in their fields, and some emerging younger academics engaged in a cutting-edge research have also been included. No other single volume in any language offers so comprehensive, expert and up-to-date an analysis of Russian history in this period.
The third volume of the Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of the trials and triumphs ofRussia and the Soviet Union during the twentieth century. It encompasses not only the ethnically Russian part of the country but also the non-Russian peoples of the tsarist and Sovietmultinational states and of the post-Soviet republics. Beginning with the revolutions of the early twentieth century, chapters move through the 1920s to the Stalinist 1930s, the Second World
War, the post-Stalin years and the decline and collapse of the USSR. The contributors attempt to go beyond the divisions that marred the historiography of the USSR during the Cold War to look for
new syntheses and understandings. The volume is also the first major undertaking by historians and political scientists to use the newprimary and archival sources that have become available since the break-up of the USSR.
《日本经济史》,为三联出版,日本史学家所著,评价极高,见厉以平的《代监译序》。内容由八卷本的标题大体可知。
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