Review
"The scope of Smith's work is breathtaking ... Part I is in some respects the most original part of the book; to my knowledge there is no comparable survey." Journal of American Ethnic History
"Unquestionably an important contribution to the literature on nationalism ... this is a thoughtful, insightful investigation into the roots and strengths of ethnonational identity. ... I recommend it unhesitatingly to all students of nationalism." Walker Connor, Trinity College, Hartford
A well-researched, perceptive study of an important subject. It discusses comprehensively ethnic communities in pre-modern eras and ethnic and nations in modern ones. In addition to being based on solid facts, it is methodologically sound and conceptually provocative ... no political scientist, historian or sociologist can do without it." A. Jacob M. Landau, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Smith's depth of learning is awe-inspiring, and this work deserves a prominent place wherever nationalism is discussed." Michael Levin, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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This book is an excellent, comprehensive account of the ways in which nations and nationhood have evolved over time. Successful in hardback, it is now available in paperback for a student audience.

A translation of Fernand Braudel's "Ecrits sur l'histoire", published in 1969. The main themes of the work are: the importance of a "rapprochement" between history and the social sciences; the inseparability of study of past and present; the dubious value of the narrative techniques; and the liberating effect of approaching the human past with eyes firmly fixed upon the "longue duree".

《什么是文化史》内容简介：文化史的实践已经不限于说英语的世界，它在欧洲大陆、亚洲、南美洲以及世界上的其他地区也蓬勃发展。关于文化史的研究对象及其研究方法，《什么是文化史》一书提供了关键性的指引。杰出的文化史学家彼得·伯克引导我们进入文化史的过去、现在和将来。
伯克从讨论雅各布·伯克哈特和约翰·赫伊津哈所提出的文化史的“经典”术语入手，并考察了从弗雷德里克·安塔尔到爱德华·汤普森等马克思主义者做出的反拨。随后，勾勒文化史近期兴起的概貌，重点尤其是上一代人写作的、常常被称之为“新文化史”的著作。他将新文化史放在自身的文化背景下进行考察，重视历史思考和写作的新方法与女权主义、后殖民主义研究以及日常生活的话语的兴起之间的关联。
《什么是文化史》不仅是历史学专业读者的入门手册，也是关心文化研究、人类学研究和文学研究的读者的必读书。

新清史着重强调了清帝国与众不同的满洲元素及其独特性质，倾向于从边缘的观点审视清史。或从满洲及清的形成，八旗制度的内部结构及其作用等，来判定清朝有别于中原王朝的朝代特征；或把清朝置于内亚的空间，放大可汗体制对清朝的影响，但其否认满族的汉化过程，否认满汉双向互动中的民族融合与文明共生，显然难以让人信服。本书除了选辑国外新清史研究代表性论著，还汇集国内学术界的相关论述与评议，对前者的某些理论进行尖锐剖析，期待以此深化中国史尤其是清史研究。

When originally published in Norway, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries marked the transition to a new era of ethnic studies. Today this much-cited classic is regarded as the seminal volume from which stems much current anthropological thinking about ethnicity. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries opens with Barth’s invaluable thirty-page essay that introduces students to important theoretical issues in the analysis of ethnic groups. Following is a collection of seven essays—the results of a symposium involving a small group of Scandinavian social anthropologists—intended to illustrate the application of Barth’s analytical viewpoints to different sides of the problems of polyethnic organization in various ethnographic areas, including Norway, Sudan, Ethiopia, Mexico, Afghanistan, and Laos.

While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History argues that both history and the social sciences have something crucial to offer each other. While historians do not think of themeselves as theorists, they know something social scientists do not: how to think about the temporalities of social life. On the other hand, while social scientists' treatments of temporality are usually clumsy, their theoretical sophistication and penchant for structural accounts of social life could offer much to historians. Renowned for his work at the crossroads of history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, Sewell argues that only by combining a more sophisticated understanding of historical time with a concern for larger theoretical questions can a satisfying social theory emerge. In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both sides of the disciplinary divide.

As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday—there may be a lot of them, but you can’t have too many, and there’s always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your interior life into your exterior life, how to find and join that community of like-minded souls you’re sure is out there somewhere.
Carolyn See distills a lifetime of experience as novelist, memoirist, critic, and creative-writing professor into this marvelously engaging how-to book. Partly the nuts and bolts of writing (plot, point of view, character, voice) and partly an inspirational guide to living the life you dream of, Making a Literary Life takes you from the decision to “become” a writer to three months after the publication of your first book. A combination of writing and life strategies (do not tell everyone around you how you yearn to be a writer; send a “charming note” to someone you admire in the industry five days a week, every week, for the rest of your life; find the perfect characters right in front of you), Making a Literary Life is for people not usually considered part of the literary loop: the non–East Coasters, the secret scribblers.
With sagacity, a magical sense of humor, and an abiding belief in the possibilities offered to “ordinary” people living “ordinary” lives, Carolyn See has summed up her life’s work in a book so beguiling, irreverent, and giddily inspiring that you won’t even realize it’s changing your life until it already has.
From the Hardcover edition.

Foundations of Anthropological Theory presents a selection of key texts that reflect the broad range of anthropological thought on human behavior, from Herodotus and Ibn Battuta to Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson. Enables the reader to situate the modern discipline of anthropology within the larger context of intellectual history Features key texts from the ancient and medieval worlds through to the Enlightenment Considers the presumptive rights of Europeans to judge the inherent moral worth of non-Western civilizations Provides fascinating insights into the ways historians, philosophers, missionaries, and even writers of fiction have made valuable contributions to modern anthropological inquiry

《论语新解》汇集前人对《论语》的注疏、集解，力求融会贯通，“一以贯之”，再加上作者自己的理解予以重新阐释。

有人把薇依的《重负与神恩》与帕斯卡尔的《思想录》相提并论，并称薇依为“当代的帕斯卡尔”。这位法国20世纪杰出的宗教思想家，沿循的是帕斯卡尔的神秘主义信仰之路：信仰不是拿来炫耀之物，而是艰难、绝非轻松的重负。本书不是系统的专门论著，是薇依的朋友、著名宗教学家梯蓬（G .Thibon，1903一）在薇依身后从她大量的手稿、言谈记录中整理成书的。这些闪烁着精神之光的篇章渗透着薇依的深邃思考，显示了薇依的伟大心灵和崇高的信仰，是20世纪基督神秘主义思想史上一部不容忽视的著作。

在品钦已有的长篇小说中，《拍卖第四十九批》是最易读，又能全面反映其独特创作风格的一部。
主人公奥迪帕发现前男友的遗产中有大量邮票，这邮票似乎暗示了某种秘密。为此她四处寻访调查，慢慢地她不知自己是真的有所发现，还是陷入了幻觉之中。莫非一切不过是死者为她设下的一个庞大的恶作剧？所有可能的知情者都在她接近时离奇消失。邮票最终进行拍卖，据说会有一个从未露面的人前来竞拍。她坐在拍卖厅里，等待那个神秘人物的到来……
小说通过迷宫式的叙事和对熵增理论、测不准原理的借用，描绘了美国光怪陆离的社会全景，道出了在无序、空虚、没有确定性的现代社会中人类的尴尬处境，展现了鬼才品钦诡谲的视角及其对杂糅、戏仿等艺术手法的娴熟运用。

《地方性知识》是霍香结创作的中国大陆先锋异端小说，由新世界出版社于2010年出版。作品主要描述了中国南方一个叫汤错的山村，从疆域、语言、风俗、衡虞、列传、艺文志等多个层面深入挖掘了一个一穷二白的村庄，被喻为微观地域性写作和人类学小说的开山之作。
一部有关“物”的微观地方性作品，作家以方言和人类学家的深广视野在田野考察的基础上深度描述了中国南方一个叫汤错的山村。作品起用了“方志”体例，从疆域、语言、风俗、衡虞、列传、艺文志等多个层面深入挖掘了一个一穷二白的村庄，从写和写作本身来讲具有普遍方法论意义，乃本土小说开拓性的集成实验，被喻为微观地域性写作和人类学小说的开山之作。
长篇小说《地方性知识》在田野调查的基础上，描述了越城岭山脉下岭南文化和湘楚文化交界地带的一个叫做汤错（铜座）的村落，创作时间十年，涉及汤错地方的诗学与政治。也可以说这是一部有关“物”的微观地方性作品，作家以方言和人类学家的深广视野在田野考察的基础上深度描述了这个桂北山村。作品起用了“方志”体例，从疆域、语言、风俗、衡虞、列传、艺文志等多个层面深入挖掘了一个一穷二白的村庄，从写和写作本身来讲具有普遍方法论意义，乃本土小说开拓性的集成实验，被喻为微观地域性写作和人类学小说的开山之作。
《小说前沿文库》是由中国国际出版集团新世界出版社出版的，也是继长江文艺跨世纪文丛之后又一次对汉语先锋和实验小说的拔梳，整理。该文库集“先锋、实验、异端、集成”式的史诗作品于一体，网络本土新新写作势力，被坊间称之为“中国小说的头脑风暴”。编撰主旨旗帜鲜明地指出，小说创作主体之知识谱系和学问功底已经不同于前三代作者。她是汉语文学新高峰的集结号，新千年华语文学高端阅读将从这里开始。
从拿到这份书稿审读时，一直以为这是一部学术著作。因为，此书体例鲜明，是田野考察基础上撰写而成的一部地方志。从没想到过虚构二字，对汤错这个地方也深信不疑。书中对汤错地方的地理、语言、风俗习惯、动植物等进行的考察无微不至，栩栩如生，历历在目，没有容许我产生别的想法。直到审读完毕，恰巧碰到此书的责编，言语间才知道这竟然是一部小说。这意味着，我误会了这部书。或者说，一开始我就被这种本能的实证与虚构的博学所牵引而没有产生判断的动机。再加上，艺文志部分――这部分作者声称是在探赜虚构的底限――虽然有虚构的前提声明，但也是在前五卷的基础上生成的。现在的问题是，那么，前五卷是不是虚构的？这个问题，责编也在探问作者本人，作者只是说――这是小说。显然，已经把问题推给了所有进入到这部作品的读者身上了。鉴于这种疑惑，出版社提议，不妨写份“手记”，以示来君。那么，这些问题也只好留给读者自己去判断了。如果您在进入之前恰好翻到过最后一页，情形或许有所不同，此书的文本属性――即波粒二象性大概会体会的更具体一些吧。

Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Imagining Cioran ix
On Being Lyrical 3
How Distant Everything Is! 6
On Not Wanting to Live 8
The Passion for the Absurd 10
The World and I 14
Weariness and Agony 16
Despair and the Grotesque 18
The Premonition of Madness 20
On Death 22
Enthusiasm as a Form ofMelancholy 29
Nothing Is Important 33
Ecstasy 35
The World in Which Nothing Is Solved 37
The Contradictory and the Inconsequential 39
On Sadness 41
Total Dissatisfaction 43
The Bath of Fire 45
Disintegration 46
On the Reality of the Body 48
I Do Not Know 49
On Individual and Cosmic Loneliness 50
Apocalypse 52
The Monopoly of Suffering 54
Absolute Lyricism 57
The Meaning of Grace 59
The Vanity of Compassion 61
Eternity and Morality 62
Moment and Eternity 64
History and Eternity 66
Not to Be a Man Anymore 68
Magic and Fatality 70
Transfiguration of Banality 101
Unimaginable Joy 72
The Ambiguity of Suffering 73
All Is Dust 74
Love 75
Light and Darkness 79
Renunciation 81
On the Transubstantiation of Love 84
The Blessings of Insomnia 83
Man, the Insomniac Animal 85
Truth, What a Word! 87
The Beauty of Flames 88
The Paucity of Wisdom 89
The Return to Chaos 90
Irony and Self-Irony 91
On Poverty 93
The Flight from the Cross 95
The Cult of Infinity 98
The Burden of Sadness 103
Degradation through Work 104
The Sense of Endings 106
The Satanic Principle of Suffering 108
An Indirect Animal 111
Impossible Truth 112
Subjectivity 113
Homo . . . 114
Love in Brief 115
Nothing Matters 116
The Sources of Evil 117
Beauty's Magic Tricks 119
Man's Inconsistency 120
Capitulation 122
Facing Silence 123
The Double and His Art 124
Nonsense 126
E. M. Cioran: A Short Chronology 127

《抵押出去的心》是麦卡勒斯辞世后由其妹妹编撰而成的遗作集，包括她早期、后期的短篇小说，散文，评论以及诗歌。在这本遗作里，麦卡勒斯依旧是一个偏执的孩童，依旧抓住“人之孤独”与“爱之无能”的命题，淡漠地讲述她眼中的孤独与疏离……
麦卡勒斯遗作集《抵押出去的心》简体中文版首度 面世

《舒伯特 (第3卷)》对每个细节做出详细而殷实的考证，对多种有据可查的最初来源进行比较分析，以最接近作曲家原始意图为其追求目标。“维也纳原始版本”在世界音乐界享有盛誉，业已成为一切严肃的音乐学家、乐器演奏家、作曲家、音乐教育家研究音乐作品本来面貌的最可靠的出发点。

目录：
序：小说中国
辑一
被压抑的现代性
没有晚清，何来“五四”？
寓教于恶
三部晚清狎邪小说
贾宝玉坐潜水艇
晚清科幻小说新论
《老残游记》与公案小说
“谴责”以外的喧嚣
试探晚清小说的闹剧意义
“说话”与中国白话小说叙事模式的关系
翻译“现代性”
论晚清小说的翻译
辑二
从“头”谈起
鲁迅、沈从文与砍头
“母亲”，你在何方？
论巴金的一篇奇情小说
荒谬的喜剧？
《骆驼祥子》的颠覆性
做了女人真倒楣？
丁玲的“霞村”经验
半生缘，一世情
张爱玲与海派小说传统
辑三
从老舍到王祯和
现代中国小说的笑谑倾向
女作家的现代“鬼”话
从张爱玲到苏伟贞
原乡神话的追逐者
沈从文、宋泽莱、莫言、李永平
落地的麦子不死
张爱玲的文学影响力与“张派”作家的超越之路
潘金莲、赛金花、尹雪艳
中国小说世界中“祸水”造型的演变
华丽的世纪末
台湾·女作家·边缘诗学
辑四
历史·小说·虚构
现代文学史理论的文、史之争
以近代中国政治小说的研究为例
现代中国小说研究在西方
想像中国的方法
海外学者看现、当代中国小说与电影
世纪末的中文小说
预言四则

本书展现了对约翰·罗斯金走上艺评之路的全景式描绘。它就像一幅展开的画卷，其中有罗斯金的父母对他的自始至终的关怀、影响，也有生活在其周围的人包括邻居、亲戚或朋友、老师、前辈等对罗斯金直接或间接的影响。始终贯穿全书的，是罗斯金的游历生活，它们无疑占据了罗斯金生命的重要部分，让他的生命藉此得以更加辉煌、灿烂。

《汉语史稿》(重排本)是北京大学中文系汉语专业的教材。全书分语音部分；语法发展部分；词汇发展部分。讲述汉语史对象、研究方法、语言的发展分成等。原书三册，今合为一册。