1518年，葡萄牙海盗在地中海上抓捕了一位北非外交官，他叫哈桑·瓦桑，来自菲斯，正奉苏丹之命出使土耳其。这是海盗们头一次抓到身份如此显赫的穆斯林，如获至宝，将他敬献给教皇利奥十世。哈桑·瓦桑被关押在罗马圣天使堡。一年多后，他表示愿意改变自幼抱持的信仰，皈依基督教。教皇亲自施洗，并为他改名约安尼斯·利奥。改变信仰大概只是哈桑/利奥为获自由的权宜之计。在意大利生活九年之后，他销声匿迹，很可能伺机回到了他成长和热爱的北非伊斯兰世界。
滞留意大利期间，哈桑/利奥以基督教世界的欧洲读者为对象，撰写了一部《非洲寰宇地理志》，回忆和记录自己早年出使埃及、土耳其、撒哈拉沙漠以南非洲各地的见闻经历。这是中世纪欧洲的第一部非洲地理志，出版后风靡一时，甚至塑造了此后数百年间欧洲人对非洲和伊斯兰世界的认识。
在本书中，著名新文化史家娜塔莉·泽蒙·戴维斯利用手抄本、档案和同时代人物的著述等种种资料，对哈桑/利奥这一身处16世纪两大对立思想世界的夹缝之中的历史人物，进行了前所未有的深入研究。
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“博学而富有想象力……因其新锐的史学技艺，戴维斯教授已成为当今最优秀的历史学家中的标杆性人物。她能从乏善可陈的档案材料中开掘发人深省的洞见，她在人类学和文本批评方面的技巧堪称出神入化，她擅长从个别历史人物的人生与经历中提炼广泛的历史认识，这一切都使得戴维斯教授堪称当世最有影响力的历史学家。”——The New York Sun

本書嘗試透過清代官方檔案、文集、教派寶卷等資料，結合歷史學、宗教與醫療人類學等知識，討論清代民間秘密宗教盛行於底層社會，與其以治病為傳教手段有密切關連。教派內運用的醫療方法頗多，諸如針灸按摩之類的中醫術，以及偏向宗教性療法諸如誦念經卷、畫符念咒、坐功運使氣、飲用茶水、跪香祈禱等。由於其醫療活動具求醫稱便、療程簡易、費用省簡、尚具療效等益處，故吸引許多民眾向其求醫、進而拜師習教，對教派擴展頗具影響。

A logo on products ranging from chopsticks and toilet paper to cell phones and automobiles, the panda is one of the most ubiquitous images in China and throughout the world. Yet the panda holds little notable historical significance in China. Although it has existed in the territory of present-day China since the Pliocene epoch, its widespread popularity there is not only recent, but almost sudden.
In Panda Nation, E. Elena Songster links the emergence of the giant panda as a national symbol to the development of nature protection in the People's Republic of China. The panda's transformation into a national treasure exemplifies China's efforts in the mid-twentieth century to distinguish itself as a nation through government-directed science and popular nationalism. The story of the panda's iconic rise offers a striking reflection of China's recent and dramatic ascent as a nation in global status.

娜塔莉·泽蒙·戴维斯（Natalie Zemon Davis，1928—）是美国当代声名卓著的思想史家、历史学家，著作等身。她曾任普林斯顿大学“亨利·查尔斯·李历史讲座”教授，美国历史学会主席。戴维斯注意把人类学、心理学、人种志学和文学等学科的理论成果运用于历史研究中，并在历史书写上采取叙述史学的写作策略，成为跨学科的典范。本书通过梳理和解读戴维斯各个时期的主要学术成果，分析她在妇女史、影视史和新文化史领域的学术观点、研究方法及社会影响，认识其在西方史学界的地位。

"In the diversity of methods and objects of analysis it offers, Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method offers a fresh perspective on this Italian historian who has become such an essential point of reference in many domains of cultural study today." -- Dana Polan, Camera Obscura.

华北根据地建立之初，节日就作为开展社会动员的有效场域受到中共领导的根据地政府的重视，在默许和迎合民间旧有节日传统的同时，引入和创造了许多具有现代意义的新节日。在延续旧传统和创造新节日的过程中，华北根据地的节日空间不断扩展，节日娱乐被赋予了更多革命性意涵。
本书从社会文化史的角度对1937～1949年华北根据地的节日文化生活进行考察，关注节日生活背后的传统与现代、官与民之间的关系变化，探讨华北根据地以节日为切入点开展的社会动员和社会治理过程。

Print, Profit, and Perception examines the dynamic cross-cultural exchanges occurring in China and Taiwan from the first Sino-Japanese War to the mid-twentieth century. Drawing examples from various genres, this interdisciplinary volume presents nine empirically grounded case studies on the growth in the production, dissemination and consumption of texts, which lay behind a dramatic expansion of knowledge. The chapters collectively address the co-existence of globalization and localization processes in the period. By taking into account intra-Asian cultural encounters and tracing the multiple competing forces encountered by many, this book offers a fresh and compelling take on how individuals and social groups participated in transnational conceptual flows.

How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? This study engages these universal questions through a recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in 17th-century England. The author paints a picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were practically solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honour, and integrity. These codes formed, and arguably still form, an important basis for securing reliable knowledge about the natural world. Shapin uses detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of the mores and manners of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate Shapin's broad claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge. Knowledge-making is always a collective enterprise: people have to know whom to trust in order to know something about the natural world.

本书重点探讨了“爱情”作为一个词汇、一种观念在近现代中国的言说历史。作者主要通过晚明至当代的一些重要文学作品，勾勒了爱情在中国文学叙述中的历史。作者还把爱情放在情感这一更大的背景之下进行考察，提炼出儒家的、启蒙的、革命的三种感觉结构，用以深度描述中国人情感的复杂结构 和互动演变，呈现了近现代中国人如何利用爱情以及情感的话语构建身份、道德、性别、权力、群体乃至国族与世界。本书以其新颖的主题、卓越的分析获得了2009年美国亚洲研究学会的列文森奖。

16世纪的法国实行皇家赦免制，戴罪之人可以通过陈情求赦而免死脱罪，赦罪书是由此产生的一种特殊文献。赦罪书的制度运作，讲述者、书写者、审阅者的种种表现，求赦故事的叙事结构和技巧，以及其中女性的声音，这些都是娜塔莉·泽蒙·戴维斯精心分析的对象，16世纪法国社会一幕幕鲜活的画面得以呈现在读者面前。
此书字字珠玑，给16世纪的司法史、社会史、文学史投射了一道迷人的光芒。这是一份样本，让我们可以观察这位我们这个时代最具创造力的历史学家是如何从事历史研究和写作的。——亨利·海勒，《社会史》
戴维斯一直致力于发掘来自16世纪的声音，重建我们与他们的直接联系。这部新作反映了她最深入、最精巧的探索……这部重要的作品第一次探讨了16世纪的男人和女人如何叙述（也就意味着建构）他们自身的生活现实。——乔纳森·德瓦尔特，《社会史杂志》
戴维斯的文笔一如既往地优雅漂亮，呈现了16世纪生活的丰富信息。——理查德·崔斯勒，《文艺复兴季刊》
这是一部引人入胜的佳作，任何一位法国史研究者都无法等闲视之。戴维斯通过赦罪故事，为我们提供了观察16世纪法国人的思想和行为的一条新路径。——理查德·戈登，《16世纪学刊》

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

《印刷书的诞生》是法国年鉴学派大师费夫贺与马尔坦的经典之作，自一九五八年於法国出版以来，已成为西方书籍史与出版史研究人员必读的基《印刷书的诞生》目。印刷书的勃兴是一段不容小觑的历史进程，费夫贺与马尔坦在这部广获好评的史书中，聚焦于1450至1800年间，活字印刷术发明后的早期图书史，带领我们探究印刷书诞生的源起，以及西方文明从手抄本迈入印刷书社会的革命性转型。年鉴学派治学之道的极致范例，尽在书中呈现。

《承袭的权力：一个驱魔师的故事》以1697年都灵主教法庭的一桩轰动当时的非法驱魔案件为引子：桑泰纳的教区神父乔瓦•巴蒂斯塔•基耶萨，他为民众驱魔治病，引发了众人狂热的追随，但并没有得到教廷的许可。
微观史学家乔瓦尼•莱维利用乔瓦•巴蒂斯塔•基耶萨神父留存的驱魔笔记和意大利萨沃伊公国的小村镇桑泰纳的各种文献资料，以桑泰纳一地为中心重构了当时从中央到地方的权力斗争，使欧洲现代早期的社会细节纤毫毕现，从中探讨欧洲现代性的起源。

《旅行者的史學》探討醫學在中國歷史裏的建構和演變，以及衍生的文化、政治、社會、甚至性別意義。醫學不僅操練「望聞問切」的技術，也是一個文明認識生命，想像身體，辯證知識體系的入口。本書旁徵博引，呈現中國醫學傳統極其複雜多元的面貌，案例分析的部分尤其引人入勝。任何對中國歷史文化有興趣的讀者，都不會願意錯過！

Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early Renaissance painting, and explains how the style of painting in any society reflects the visual skills and habits that evolve out of daily life. Renaissance painting, for example, mirrors the experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels. The volume includes discussions of a wide variety of painters, including Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Stefano di Giovanni, Sandro Botticelli, Masaccio, Luca Signorelli, Boccaccio, and countless others. Baxandall also defines and illustrates sixteen concepts used by a contemporary critic of painting, thereby assembling the basic equipment needed to explore fifteenth-century art.
This new second edition includes an appendix that lists the original Latin and Italian texts referred to throughout the book, providing the reader with all the relevant, authentic sources. It also contains an updated bibliography and a new reproduction of a recently restored painting which replaces the original.

本书以专题述评的形式，向读者介绍了历史社会学的主要发展历程、经典人物、重要问题、路径和方法，重在揭示近20年来该领域的最新变化和发展趋势，内容丰富、新颖，尤其适合作为社会学、历史学专业的教学参考书。

在本书中，葛凯（Karl Gerth）认为，影响近代（modern）世界的两大关键力量——民族主义（nationalism）和消费主义（consumerism）先后在中国滋长。在20世纪早期，民族主义把每件商品贴上“中国的”或“外国的”标签，消费文化变成民族性概念被清晰表达、被制度化及被实践的场所。本书以中文、日文和英语的档案、杂志、报纸和书籍为文献基础，第一次探讨了民族主义与消费主义之间的历史纽带，重新解释了中国近代史的基本方面，并为洞悉所有近代国家中的类似联系提出了方法上的参考。

这是关于一部书的书：这位主角似乎有些神秘，而且它可以缩到无穷小，就像从一面镜子反射到另一面镜子。不过，如果处理得当，也会增强人们对早期现代历史诸多方面的理解，如人们所知的，在法国，书籍史就和历史研究中很广泛的问题有关。启蒙运动这样伟大的思想运动是如何在社会中传播的？影响的深度和广度如何？贤哲的思想在物质化到书中时，采取何种形式？印刷品的物质基础和生产技术与它的主旨和传播有很大的关系吗？图书市场如何确定其功能？出版商、书商、推销员和文化传播中的其他媒介扮演什么角色？出版如何像生意那样运作？它如何适...
罗伯特·达恩顿所讲的故事非常引人入胜，他精心梳理了复杂无序而又晦涩难懂的史料，叙述优雅、精确、充满智慧，对细节拥有小说家一般的眼光，对历史涵义的分析清晰而富有洞察力。

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另据文汇读书周报：

一部读来令人不忍释卷的学术著作。本书以瑞士纳沙泰尔印刷公司的数万份档案材料为基础，详细论述了18世纪后半期历版《百科全书》的出版发行过程与当时社会状况的密切关联，展现了出版发行过程中非常“琐碎”的细节，使读者能够充分感受当时的历史氛围，并且阐明了法国大革命对出版和新闻业的具体而重大的影响。