Mr Dobb examines the history of economic thought in the light of the modern controversy over capital theory and, more particularly, the appearance of Sraffa's book The Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, which was a watershed in the critical discussions constituted a crucial turning-point in the history of economics: an estimate not unconnected with his reinterpretation of nineteenth-century economic thought as consisting of two streams or traditions commonly confused under the generic title of 'the classical tradition' against which Jevons so strongly reacted.

2001年11月，英国的历史研究院为纪念爱德华卡尔的《历史是什么？》发表四十周年，与剑桥三一学院、麦克米兰公司联合主办了纪念性的研讨会，讨论当代史学实践的现状。会后由David Cannadine选取其中部分关键文章，编辑成书。
Review
"Readers will find reliable and insightful information presented without recourse to jargon."--E.A. Breisach, Choice
"If anyone were to provide an equivalent to What is History? for the early twenty-first century, it would surely be David Cannadine...as balanced as [it is] indispensible."--David Armitage, Columbia University
"At last, What is History? gets the successor it deserves...extremely readable and highly stimulating."--Roy Porter, University College, London
"[Cannadine] has assembled a distinguished team who convey, with spirit and
lucidity, the scale and excitement of [historical] discovery."--The Sunday Telegraph
"...should prove invaluable to graduate students and scholars..."--Claude Ury, History: Reviews of New Books
"Both the sense of the past and the strudy of history have changed significantly since E.H.Carr asked the question What is History? The key word in this new book, stimulating and in places provocative, is Now. Various authors, drawing largely on their personal experiences as historians, explore the processes and implications of change."--Asa Briggs

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history occurred in Chernobyl. Although this was one of the most devastating tragedies ever, until now, no book has appeared in English giving the inside story of what happened to the people living in Belarus, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they lived through. A journalist by trade, Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of people in Belarus affected by the meltdown. From residents of Chernobyl to firefighters to those called in to clean up the disaster, Voices from Chernobyl is a crucial document of what happened and how people reacted to it. Alexievich presents these interviews in monologue form, giving readers a harrowing inside view into the minds of those affected untempered by government spin, detailing the tragedy and devastation.

When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of 44 nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization. The actual story surrounding the historic Bretton Woods accords, however, is full of startling drama, intrigue, and rivalry, which are vividly brought to life in Benn Steil's epic account.
Upending the conventional wisdom that Bretton Woods was the product of an amiable Anglo-American collaboration, Steil shows that it was in reality part of a much more ambitious geopolitical agenda hatched within President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Treasury and aimed at eliminating Britain as an economic and political rival. At the heart of the drama were the antipodal characters of John Maynard Keynes, the renowned and revolutionary British economist, and Harry Dexter White, the dogged, self-made American technocrat. Bringing to bear new and striking archival evidence, Steil offers the most compelling portrait yet of the complex and controversial figure of White—the architect of the dollar's privileged place in the Bretton Woods monetary system, who also, very privately, admired Soviet economic planning and engaged in clandestine communications with Soviet intelligence officials and agents over many years.
A remarkably deft work of storytelling that reveals how the blueprint for the postwar economic order was actually drawn, The Battle of Bretton Woods is destined to become a classic of economic and political history.

《忍不住的"关怀":1949年前后的书生与政治》内容简介：对于20世纪中国的知识分子来说，一个最大的历史悲剧就是，他们是最早投身于救国救民的一群人，自认为最了解政治大势，最后却在政治场中最不知所措、动辄得咎、受人轻视。
《忍不住的"关怀":1949年前后的书生与政治》讨论的三人，一位是燕京大学哲学教授张东荪，长期浸淫于政治活动之中，1949年后曾官居政务院委员；一位是报人王芸生，擅长政治评论，多年担任《大公报》主笔；一位是清华教授潘光旦，理科出身，对政治外行却一样曾积极想要为中国政治建言。三人在1949年以前都曾经在不同领域有过出色表现，1949年以后却先后遭遇滑铁卢，人生事业从此一蹶不振。
杨奎松教授不满足于像过去一样笼统地发出质问：为什么中国大陆的知识分子当年竟会停止思想，集体转向？因为随着越来越多的私人记录以及各种报刊、档案文献披露出来，他发现，事情并非那样简单。

这是我最主要的代表作之一，是到目前为止唯一比较系统地反映了我对革命年代中共成长发展经过及其主要原因的看法的一本书。
这本书最大的阅读价值，在于它比较完整和系统地讲述了中共夺取政权的决策过程和影响其决策的种种复杂的内外因素的作用。它说明，中共革命的成功和新中国的由来，其实在很大程度上都是得益于整个世界大环境，包括俄国革命、二战及战后国际关系的改变。特别是对于正在崛起中的毛泽东来说，还离不开第二次世界大战爆发前日本入侵的影响。否则的话，接连遭遇了1927年和1934年惨重失败的中共，何以能由极度弱小而一步步壮大？原本足够强大并且统一了中国的国民党，何以会一步步削弱、瓦解，以至于无法适应战后的新形势、新条件，最终竞被中共所推翻？

毛泽东一生都同莫斯科有着不解之缘。
30岁的毛泽东入选中央局，得益于共产国际代表马林的赏识；然而从莫斯科回来的政治局领导人之一的张闻天到苏区一年半竟然从没想到要了解一下毛泽东有什么本领；俄国人把毛泽东视为“亚洲的铁托”，斯大林、莫洛托夫竟然当面批评毛泽东，毛泽东气愤地回忆说：“我在鼻子里笑他们，一声都不吭……”；赫鲁晓夫秘密报告披露惊人内幕，斯大林一夜之间威信扫地，毛泽东表示中国不能摘斯大林的像；赫鲁晓夫传话过来：如果你们要斯大林，我们可以把他的尸体搬到你们北京去；毛泽东决定转入反攻，不怕分裂，来一个“大闹天宫”；边界冲突忍无可忍，大战来临，林彪差点下令炸掉密云库……
本书根据大量有关中苏档案和亲历者的回忆，按历史发展的顺序，对涉及到毛泽东与莫斯科关系的历次重大事件以及毛泽东性格和处事特点作了引人入胜的描述。文中所及中共历史上许多事件的来龙去脉和背景都是鲜为人知的。当这些触目惊心又“似曾相识”的历史卷展现在眼前时，我们不得不惊叹历史的确比我们想象的要丰富得多，复杂得多。

该书本着还民众“历史真相”的目的，在大量丰富的中国与前苏联历史档案的基础上，对1917-1991年间的中苏关系进行了全面和系统的梳理和分析，特别是对中苏关系中的许多重大事件，如苏联与中国革命、中苏同盟建立、中苏分裂与对抗、中苏关系正常化等做出了新的诠释，澄清和揭示了不少以往由于种种原因被扭曲和被遮蔽的历史片段，是目前国内学术界第一部完整反映中苏关系复杂曲折历史全过程的权威力作。

《中苏关系史纲:1917-1991年中苏关系若干问题再探讨(增订版)》是几位中苏关系研究领域的著名学者的又一力作。他们在掌握大量丰富的中国与前苏联历史档案的基础上，对中苏关系进行了全面和系统的梳理和分析，特别是对中苏关系的许多重大事件做出的新住释。对于所有研究中苏关系或者对那一段历史有兴趣的读者，《中苏关系史纲:1917-1991年中苏关系若干问题再探讨(增订版)》都是开卷有卷的。
中苏关系是20世纪最重要的双边国际关系之一，《中苏关系史纲:1917-1991年中苏关系若干问题再探讨(增订版)》作者多数是在这一课题上造诣最深、最具影响力的权威学者。在我看来，这部著作是每一个对中苏关系感兴趣的读者的案头必备之书。
国内著名学者利用大量史料、包括大量解密资料展示、探讨1917-1991年中苏关系的曲折历史，详尽而深刻地论述了苏联与中国革命、中苏同盟建立、中苏分裂与对抗、中苏关系正常化等重大事件，是国内第一部完整反映中苏关系历史的力著。

Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations.</p>
Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effort-and adopt economic habits-hard work, rationality, and education.</p>
The problem, Clark says, is that only societies that have long histories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing. Clark also dissects the notion, championed by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, that natural endowments such as geography account for differences in the wealth of nations.</p>
A brilliant and sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood.</p>

This is a history of economic thought from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes--but it is a history with a difference. Firstly, it is history of economic theory, not of economic doctrines. Secondly, it includes detailed Reader's Guides to nine of the major texts of economics in the effort to encourage students to become acquainted at first hand with the writings of all the great economists. This fifth edition adds new Reader's Guides to Walras' Elements of Pure Economics and Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money as well as major additions to the chapters on marginal productivity theory, general equilibrium theory and welfare economics.

《那高尚的梦想》是一部“观念史”的著作，探讨了自19世纪后期美国历史学诞生至20世纪末这一百多年中，“客观性”这一神圣理想和核心规范所遭遇的命运，即其形成和衍变，受到的挑战和修正，如何得到捍卫，以及20世纪60年代之后随着后现代观念的风起云涌，终于不可遏止地走向混乱和解体。

《东方历史评论》第3辑选取了十五位中国杰出青年历史学人，希望从他们的访谈和代表作里找寻这个时代的“志气”。如果说民国时代的历史学者面对的挑战，是让史学摆脱经学附庸的地位，成为近代的历史学，那么我们今天的挑战则是摆脱阶级和革命史观的叙事，创造一个更新的，同时也还原一个曾经的历史学。

《东方历史评论02》以华人移民海外的历史为专题，展示从明末清初以来中国人向异域迁徙的苦乐心酸，这是一条充满荆棘、充满梦想的漫漫征途，从最初的单纯谋生、到追求财富、再到追求安全、追求荣耀，这不断变化的移民目的也折射出中国走向现代化的阵痛、曲折、辉煌与病症。同样，异域文明也在伴随着自身文化的自信与危机，交替贬低或抬高它们眼中的“中国形象”。
《东方历史评论02》“影像”主题为“流水线上的青春”，选了一组车间女孩的照片，看看那些姑娘，即使工装也掩不住青春和美丽，伴随着她们美好的梦想，正在流水线上慢慢消逝。这 1.5 亿年轻人中最绝望的， 已经从富士康工厂的楼顶一跃而下， 作为对这个残酷时代的无声抗议。
《东方历史评论02》“随笔”栏目，收入埃及作家福阿德•阿贾米谈论“埃及知识分子的悲剧”、 陈徒手考查“‘文革’期间北京清理政治环境琐记”、张冠生挖掘“罗隆基‘反右’时期的史料”、芮虎描述“东德‘斯塔西’档案解密过程”等一系列精彩文章。

The importance of the international monetary system is clearly evident in daily news stories about fluctuating currencies and in dramatic events such as the recent reversals in the Mexican economy. It has become increasingly apparent that one cannot understand the international economy without knowing how its monetary system operates. Now Barry Eichengreen presents a brief, lucid book that tells the story of the international financial system over the past 150 years. Globalizing Capital is intended not only for economists but also for a general audience of historians, political scientists, professionals in government and business, and anyone with a broad interest in international economic and political relations. Eichengreen's work demonstrates that insights into the international monetary system and effective principles for governing it can result only if it is seen a historical phenomenon extending from the gold standard period to interwar instability, then to Bretton Woods, and finally to the post-1973 period of fluctuating currencies.
Eichengreen analyzes the shift from pegged to floating exchange rates in the 1970s and ascribes that change to the growing capital mobility that has made pegged rates difficult to maintain. However, he shows that capital mobility was also high prior to World War I, yet this did not prevent the maintenance of fixed exchange rates. What was critical for the successful maintenance of fixed exchange rates during that period was the fact that governments were relatively insulated from democratic politics and thus from pressure to trade off exchange rate stability for other goals, such as the reduction of unemployment. Today pegging exchange rates would require very radical reforms of a sort that governments are understandably reluctant to embrace. The implication seems undeniable: floating rates are here to stay.

本书记录了上世纪50年代初至60年代中11位有代表性的、全国一流教授的生存处境：俞平伯、王瑶、傅鹰、周培源、贺麟、马寅初、汤用彤、冯友兰、冯定均任职于北京大学，蔡旭、陈垣两先生则分别任职于北京农业大学和北京师范大学。

How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries. Using a novel technique--tracking family names over generations to measure social mobility across countries and periods--renowned economic historian Gregory Clark reveals that mobility rates are lower than conventionally estimated, do not vary across societies, and are resistant to social policies. The good news is that these patterns are driven by strong inheritance of abilities and lineage does not beget unwarranted advantage. The bad news is that much of our fate is predictable from lineage. Clark argues that since a greater part of our place in the world is predetermined, we must avoid creating winner-take-all societies.
Clark examines and compares surnames in such diverse cases as modern Sweden, fourteenth-century England, and Qing Dynasty China. He demonstrates how fate is determined by ancestry and that almost all societies--as different as the modern United States, Communist China, and modern Japan--have similarly low social mobility rates. These figures are impervious to institutions, and it takes hundreds of years for descendants to shake off the advantages and disadvantages of their ancestors. For these reasons, Clark contends that societies should act to limit the disparities in rewards between those of high and low social rank.
Challenging popular assumptions about mobility and revealing the deeply entrenched force of inherited advantage, The Son Also Rises is sure to prompt intense debate for years to come.