历史
钱穆与七房桥世界 豆瓣
Qian Mu and the World of Seven Mansions
作者: [美]邓尔麟 译者: 蓝桦 社会科学文献出版社 1998 - 3
本书试图来解释为什么钱穆先生这样一位现代知识分子能笃信某些真理并且毕生致力于传播这些真理。从早年起,钱穆先生就面临着这样一个文化相对论的问题。而这个问题,就如对所有的中国知识分子一样,是由西方政治、经济扩张强加在身在。可是钱穆与一些倾向西方启蒙并摈弃中国传统文化的人不同,在过去的七十年中,他坚持不懈地发扬振兴中国的传统价值。钱穆的“对立面”既不是文化的过去,也并非“现代的”今天;被钱穆认为与中国现实格格不入的乃是西方文化所颂扬的趔标准。
Eichmann in Jerusalem 豆瓣 Goodreads
9.5 (10 个评分) 作者: Hannah Arendt Penguin Classics 2006 - 9
Hannah Arendt’s authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.
2016年12月5日 已读
Arendt’s style of writing is peculiar, perhaps due to its origin as a report for the New Yorker. But the sheer weight of her argument rendered it inadequate or even offending to be interspersed between investigative reports. I would suggest first reading the last three chapters of the book.
历史 政治哲学
A Concise History of Australia 豆瓣
作者: Professor Stuart Macintyre Cambridge University Press 2004 - 8
This revised edition of a comprehensive single-volume Australian history reference incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary debate on relevant issues. In addition to frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations, the volume covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the "Pacific solution."
The Captive Republic 豆瓣
作者: Mark McKenna Cambridge University Press 1998 - 1
The idea of an Australian republic has existed from the moment the First Fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour. This book is a comprehensive history of republican thought and activity in Australia and traces republican debate in Australia from 1788. It explains the pivotal role played by republican philosophies in the decades before responsible government was granted to the Australian colonies in 1856 and prior to federation in 1901. Mark McKenna also describes the often erratic appearance of republicanism during the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the period after 1975, when the issue of a republic became a prominent and increasingly fixed term on the political agenda. This book will be essential reading for all those with an interest in political and intellectual history. It calls for a higher level of public debate about the republic and makes an outstanding contribution to this debate itself.
上学记 豆瓣 Goodreads
9.2 (99 个评分) 作者: 何兆武 / 文靖 生活·读书·新知三联书店 2006 - 8
何兆武教授的这部口述浓缩了20世纪中国知识分子的心灵史。它叙述的尽管只是1920年代-1940年代末不足30年间他学生时期的陈年往事,却蕴含着一个饱经沧桑的老人对整个20世纪历史的反思,对我们重新认识过往、观察现在以及展望未来都有着重要的启迪,这大概是这本书能够激起读者广泛共鸣的原因。这本书同时又是很个性化的,何先生不惮于表露自己的真情实感,不忌讳议论先贤的道德文章,既树立了理性的尊严,又使自己的性情展露无遗。在目前这个功利滔滔的的世界上,何先生对知识与真理的热诚仿佛一股清泉,可以冲洗那些被免得熏染的心灵,使其复现润泽。这也是老一代知识分子风范的存照。任何津津乐道于名人八卦消息的解读,都大大偏离了何先生的志趣。久已厌倦标签化历史著作的读者,可以从这本书中获得丰富、鲜活的历史体验,特别是今天“上学者”和“治学者”,或可藉此思考一下,学应该如何上、如何治。
——中华读书报
Why Australia Prospered 豆瓣
作者: Ian W. McLean Princeton University Press 2012
This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two centuries was reached and maintained by several shifting factors. These included imperial policies, favorable demographic characteristics, natural resource abundance, institutional adaptability and innovation, and growth-enhancing policy responses to major economic shocks, such as war, depression, and resource discoveries.
Natural resource abundance in Australia played a prominent role in some periods and faded during others, but overall, and contrary to the conventional view of economists, it was a blessing rather than a curse. McLean shows that Australia's location was not a hindrance when the international economy was centered in the North Atlantic, and became a positive influence following Asia's modernization. Participation in the world trading system, when it flourished, brought significant benefits, and during the interwar period when it did not, Australia's protection of domestic manufacturing did not significantly stall growth. McLean also considers how the country's notorious origins as a convict settlement positively influenced early productivity levels, and how British imperial policies enhanced prosperity during the colonial period. He looks at Australia's recent resource-based prosperity in historical perspective, and reveals striking elements of continuity that have underpinned the evolution of the country's economy since the nineteenth century.
Forming a Colonial Economy 豆瓣
作者: Noel George Butlin Cambridge University Press 1994
This broad-ranging 1995 book provides a comprehensive account of the development of Australia's colonial economy before the gold rushes. Noel Butlin's analysis of the developing economy includes background discussion of eighteenth-century British social, economic, and military history and a detailed demographic analysis of the Australian population over a period of sixty years. He goes on to explore the role of private investment in the economy and the way in which dependence on the British public purse was replaced by dependence on private British capital inflow. A key focus of the book is the extent to which the Australian economy was independent or externally driven, that is, the level of synergism between Australia and Britain. Within this framework, Noel Butlin discusses the central issues of human capital and funding and their impact on the formation of the Australian economy. Forming a Colonial Economy does for the period to the 1840s what Noel Butlin's previous landmark economic histories have done for Australia from the 1860s to the 1890s. It is an ambitious and imaginative book that marks the culmination of a life's work.
他者中的华人 豆瓣 Goodreads
Chinese Among Others: Emigration in Modern Times
8.0 (10 个评分) 作者: [美] 孔飞力 译者: 李明欢 江苏人民出版社 2016 - 3
《他者中的华人:中国近现代移民史》以大历史、大叙事的手笔,将中国移民走向世界的五百年历史,融会贯通于同期世界格局发展变化的大框架中,读来令人领悟深远。更重要的是,孔教授在展示全球华人移民五百年历史精彩画卷的基础上,有力论证了其重要观点: 海外华人历史是中国历史的题中应有之意,是研究中国历史不可或缺的组成部分。由是,海外华人研究被提升到新的境界。
从殖民统治者到被奴役的臣民,从独立后民族国家执掌大权的统治集团到洋溢民族主义激情的知识精英;从颐指气使的大富豪到埋头养家糊口的升斗小民,“华人”与周边“他者”之间呈现出错综复杂的互动关系。作为外来者,海外华人需要认识了解“他者”并与之共生共存;而后者同样也时时刻刻审视着这些远道而来的异乡人:他们是可以和平相处、共谋发展的新朋友,还是居心叵测的异类?他们究竟是带来新的利益和机会,还是潜在的麻烦制造者,或者简直就是不共戴天的敌人?漫漫数百年,移民与本地人互为“他者”,彼此之间有理解有依存,但也有竞争有对抗。在《他者中的华人:中国近现代移民史》一书中,孔教授再度展示了他在《叫魂》中熟练运用的社会心理剖析法,对华人移民置身其中的“他者”条分缕析。
2018年12月30日 已读 望文生义,原以为是描写华人于海外飞地的经济,文化,政治景况,但此书却是着笔于华人——生活在他者中的华人。
中国 中国历史 历史
學以為已 豆瓣
作者: 李弘祺 香港中文大学出版社 2012 - 6
李教授這本新著論述中國的傳統教育制度,對於私人講學、考試選才、中央到地方各級學校的建立,書院的興盛,以及大眾教育,都巨細靡遺。在教育思想方面,李教授一方面論及儒家經學在教育上的深遠影響,是權威人格與保守性的形成;另一方面則強調道學思想擺脫威權和科舉,培養自我的重視。同時也論及佛教與儒家教育的互動。在教育的實際運作方面,論述識字、家庭教育、技術教育、平民教育、課程的演變,以至學生的生活和學生運動等等。 ──(陶晉生,中央研究院士)
人类简史 豆瓣 Goodreads
A brief history of humankind
8.7 (588 个评分) 作者: [以色列] 尤瓦尔·赫拉利 译者: 林俊宏 中信出版社 2014 - 11
十万年前,地球上至少有六种不同的人
但今日,世界舞台为什么只剩下了我们自己?
从只能啃食虎狼吃剩的残骨的猿人,到跃居食物链顶端的智人,
从雪维洞穴壁上的原始人手印,到阿姆斯壮踩上月球的脚印,
从认知革命、农业革命,到科学革命、生物科技革命,
我们如何登上世界舞台成为万物之灵的?
从公元前1776年的《汉摩拉比法典》,到1776年的美国独立宣言,
从帝国主义、资本主义,到自由主义、消费主义,
从兽欲,到物欲,从兽性、人性,到神性,
我们了解自己吗?我们过得更快乐吗?
我们究竟希望自己得到什么、变成什么?
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【编辑推荐】
1、由书改变而成的人类简史课程风靡全球,成为希伯来大学最受欢迎课程 Coursera最受欢迎课程 ,mooc最受欢迎课程。学界和大众都一致认可,戴蒙德推荐。
2、一大开创性:打通文字发明前后历史的界限。
文字发明之前的年代,是生物学家、考古学家的专长;文字发明之后的年代,是历史学家、政治学家和经济学家的专长;
许多著名史家的作品,欠缺遗传学或生态学的视野,如何让这两大段历史之间没有断层,能够有一以贯之的宏观解读?
本书不同于《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》从生物与环境的角度看人类社会的发展,也不同于麦克尼尔的《世界史》以文明为单位绘制的人类文明交织的世界。 他笔下的历史,在科学中有深沉的人文关怀。
3、填补传统人类史的三大鸿沟:
历史观与哲学观之间的鸿沟(提供有史实根据的深刻哲学思考);人类和生态系统之间的鸿沟(作者多从生态来思考,而不是只讲人类的利益);集体和个人之间的鸿沟(检视历史事件如何影响到当时一般人的生活)。
4、四大部分描述人类大历史:
7万年前的大脑认知革命(有能力谈八卦,想象不存在的事物,让陌生人开始合作、建立组织)
1.2万年前的农业革命(让我们渴求更多、生产更多,分工分职愈趋细腻)、
500年前的科学革命(带来快速进步,让我们拥有上帝的力量,也带来毁灭)
全球大一统、人类大融合的关键因素——金钱、帝国、宗教
5、一部个人幸福探索之书。
用通俗的语言和新鲜的视角,将个体的幸福放在人类发展的过程中审视,不再错过历史中最关键、最有意思的部分。涵盖了生物学,人类学,哲学,心理学,艺术,文学,伦理学等众多领域。涉及幸福,生命的意义等众多话题,有人说这是一部个人幸福探索之书。
6、一部“瘦身版”人类简史。
如果说给我一本书,不到五百页,没有一堆令人晕头转向的年份、人名、地名、称号,就能涵盖了人类如何崛起、影响现代生活甚巨的资本主义、一神教、自由人文主义、基因工程如何兴盛的人类历史重大脉络……这是仅有的一部!
7、一部引发多国版权大战的神秘大书。
获得波兰斯基人文学科创造力与独创性奖。 100周蝉联以色列畅销书排行榜第一,在英国,9家出版商疯狂竞价。 23个国家竞相购买版权。台湾上市一周,金石堂、诚品历史类畅销书榜第一 ,诚品总榜第八,西班牙上市两周总榜第一。
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【内容简介】
《人类简史:从动物到上帝》是以色列新锐历史学家的一部重磅作品。从十万年前有生命迹象开始到21世纪资本、科技交织的人类发展史。十万年前,地球上至少有六个人种,为何今天却只剩下了我们自己?我们曾经只是非洲角落一个毫不起眼的族群,对地球上生态的影响力和萤火虫、猩猩或者水母相差无几。为何我们能登上生物链的顶端,最终成为地球的主宰?
从认知革命、农业革命到科学革命,我们真的了解自己吗?我们过得更加快乐吗?我们知道金钱和宗教从何而来,为何产生吗?人类创建的帝国为何一个个衰亡又兴起?为什么地球上几乎每一个社会都有男尊女卑的观念?为何一神教成为最为广泛接受的宗教?科学和资本主义如何成为现代社会最重要的信条?理清影响人类发展的重大脉络,挖掘人类文化、宗教、法律、国家、信贷等产生的根源。这是一部宏大的人类简史,更见微知著、以小写大,让人类重新审视自己。
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【各界评论】
《人类简史:从动物到上帝》为什么能够在国际畅销书榜上爆冲?原因很简单,它处理的是历史的大问题、现代世界的大问题,而且,它的写作风格是刻骨铭心的生动。你会爱上它!
——普利策奖得主 《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》作者戴蒙德
这是此类大历史中最好的一本:规模宏大但绝非泛泛而谈;具有时代性又不花哨,观念惊世骇俗但绝不是个简单的反对者。每个人都能在书里找到一部分和另外的人开始讨论,但是弄清楚是哪部分、为什么,对我们都有好处。
——牛津大学历史学院院长 斯蒂文·刚尼
我拿起这本《人类简史》立刻“着道”了——拿起了就放不下,几乎一口气读完。吸引力主要来自作者才思的旷达敏捷,还有译者文笔的生动晓畅,而书中屡屡提及中国的相关史实,也能让人感到一种说不出的亲切,好像自己也被融入其中,读来欲罢不能。
——北京大学历史系教授 高毅
《人类简史》的目的不是传授人类考古学的所有研究成果,而是提供一种看历史的视角,一种全局的观点。当你不再执着于科学、政治或宗教等某一个领域的发展过程,而是关注人类社会的整体演变,观察这些领域之间的相互作用,你会感到你脑海中零碎的历史知识忽然像拼图一样各就各位,构成一幅宏大的图景,这样的视角非常新鲜。
——果壳网 姬十三
读完这本书,有一种跟着人类一同走过十万年的感觉!
——读者
这本书如果要用“宏伟史诗”来形容一点也不过分,其中包含了很多学科的内容,例如考古学、生物学、物理学、经济学、宗教、社会学甚至计算机科学等等。书里里面的大部分观点都是从不同的角度进行介绍,其中很多都是经无数人严格验证过的,讲师很多时候仅仅是通过自己的表达希望尽量客观地介绍一些内容,至于每个人怎么理解并没有统一的标准了。
——读者
超级好的课程,付费都坚持下来了,观点独特,从来没想到能从这个角度理解我们人类自己。
——读者
2017年4月2日 已读
大概出色点是能拉扯众多零碎材料,凑起来分析;但缺点也在于此。
历史
In Search of Prosperity 豆瓣
作者: Rodrik, Dani 编 Princeton University Press 2003 - 5
The economics of growth has come a long way since it regained center stage for economists in the mid-1980s. Here for the first time is a series of country studies guided by that research. The thirteen essays, by leading economists, shed light on some of the most important growth puzzles of our time. How did China grow so rapidly despite the absence of full-fledged private property rights? What happened in India after the early 1980s to more than double its growth rate? How did Botswana and Mauritius avoid the problems that other countries in sub - Saharan Africa succumbed to? How did Indonesia manage to grow over three decades despite weak institutions and distorted microeconomic policies and why did it suffer such a collapse after 1997? What emerges from this collective effort is a deeper understanding of the centrality of institutions. Economies that have performed well over the long term owe their success not to geography or trade, but to institutions that have generated market-oriented incentives, protected property rights, and enabled stability. However, these narratives warn against a cookie-cutter approach to institution building. The contributors are Daron Acemoglu, Maite Careaga, Gregory Clark, J. Bradford DeLong, Georges de Menil, William Easterly, Ricardo Hausmann, Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufmann, Massimo Mastruzzi, Ian W. McLean, Lant Pritchett, Yingyi Qian, James A. Robinson, Devesh Roy, Arvind Subramanian, Alan M. Taylor, Jonathan Temple, Barry R. Weingast, Susan Wolcott, and Diego Zavaleta.
Modernity and the Holocaust 豆瓣 Goodreads
Modernity and the Holocaust
作者: Zygmunt Bauman Cornell University Press 2001 - 2
Attempting to provide a sociological explanation of the Holocaust, the main theme of this work is the demonstration that the Holocaust has to be understood as deeply involved with the nature of modernity - neither a single event nor a simple outpouring of barbarism. The author discusses what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly concentrates upon the lesson which the Holocaust has for sociology. There are two ways, he points out, in which the significance of the Holocaust can be side-stepped in our understanding of modernity. One way is to present the Holocaust as something which happened to the Jews, as an event in Jewish history. A second way is to regard the Holocaust as representing loathsome aspects of social life which the progress of modernity will increasingly overcome. Neither of these views stand up to scrutiny, according to the author.
2019年2月3日 已读
When one has to make a choice, one is already "lost". From behavior econ, the best way to not do "stupid" things is not to have the option available in the first place. This is about the modern conditions for the Holocaust, and indeed, rationality and modernity does not grant immunity from violence. Even democracy may not..
历史 政治 社会学
美好生活 豆瓣
Den kultiverade människan
9.0 (31 个评分) 作者: [瑞典] 奥维·洛夫格伦 / 乔纳森·弗雷克曼 译者: 赵丙祥 / 罗杨 等 北京大学出版社 2011 - 1
本书以中产阶级的生活方式为观察对象,透过丰富鲜活的民俗材料,描述了1880年至1910年间的瑞典中产阶级的生活图景:他们尝试摆脱“暴发户”的嘴脸,并希望与农民、没落贵族以及无产者划清界限;在努力营造自身的文化和生活方式的同时,他们也认为自己的文化形式是最文明、最先进的,并应被推广给普罗大众。正是在对“美好生活”的包装与塑造中,中产阶级自身的文化和价值观也成功地渗透到现代日常生活的每一个琐碎庸常的角落。
对于世纪之交瑞典中产阶级的这一研究发人深省,它表明对中产阶级的研究与认识应当基于理解而非抨击;本书的另一个重要贡献是表现历史研究可以结合其他相邻学科的方法。这两个成就令人鼓舞。
——Journal of Modern History
作者们所体现的知识视野之广令人惊叹。他们对来自民族学档案、课本、回忆录、小说和礼仪手册中的材料巧手编织,展现了中产阶级、农民和工人阶级的丰富的日常生活画面。本书还对社会文化的复杂性、冲突与抵牾进行了深入的思考,而这些内容往往都被忽视了。
——American Anthropologist
本书融合了历史学和民族学的方法所呈现的生活方式,不仅能吸引斯堪底纳维亚的学者们,同样也能吸引历史学家、社会学家,以及试图描述与解读19世纪西方文化和中产阶级的所有人。
——Ethnos
2017年5月18日 已读
奥威尔言:“这里就遇到了西方阶级差别的真正秘密……可以用五个非常丑恶的字总结……下等人难闻。”
历史 文化史
Who Are We? 豆瓣
作者: Samuel P. Huntington Simon & Schuster 2005
In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international politics. Now in his controversial new work, Who Are We?, Huntington focuses on an identity crisis closer to home as he examines the impact other civilizations and their values are having on our own country. America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture, says Huntington, including the English language, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the United States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, our national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of primarily Hispanic immigrants and challenged by issues such as bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, and the "denationalization" of American elites. September 11 brought a revival of American patriotism and a renewal of American identity, but already there are signs that this revival is fading. Huntington argues the need for us to reassert the core values that make us Americans. Timely and thought-provoking, Who Are We? is an important book that is certain to shape our national conversation about who we are.
2017年8月15日 已读
廉颇老矣。自60年代以降,美国人见世风日下,而重接受盎格鲁-撒克逊-新教伦理,抵制多元文化主义及其伦理。但于我而言,多元主义的伦理体系如何失败?或者诚如布鲁姆的立论,真因美国人的不思考致多元主义失败?另亨廷顿并未引布鲁姆著作,有趣。
历史 政治 美国
Modernism 豆瓣
作者: Peter Gay W. W. Norton & Company 2007 - 11
二十世纪的西方艺术历史是一个暴风雨般反叛、改变、价值重估和更新的叙事史。对于我们这些生活在这段历史后半段的人来说,很难察觉这个故事现在已经结束了——就是说,现代主义已经是过去的事了。尽管少数鼓吹者还存在,还很活跃,但是艺术追求的主流已经变了,只是给批评家和历史学家留下了叙述与清点这段历史的任务。
但是至今还没有人提供这样一个关于现代主义的综合性论叙。原因显然在于无人有能力对建筑师、舞蹈设计者、作曲家、电影制作者、小说家、画家和诗人的作品进行综合把握和评论。唯一的选择是省略现代主义观念,聚焦个别作品,这些作品的意义在于它们引起了所有门类的艺术和艺术家的改变。
读史阅世六十年 豆瓣
7.9 (14 个评分) 作者: 何炳棣 广西师范大学出版社 2009 - 3
《读史阅世六十年》是何炳棣的回忆亲撰,内中并附有私人信札和学术评估密件,详述过去60多年“读史阅世”的心得体会。何炳棣半个多世纪的亲见亲闻,弥足珍贵。阅读这本书,不仅可吸收他生平积累的治史心得,更可从何炳棣艰忍自强的性格和天生异禀的记忆力——特别有关三四十年代清华和西南联大的师友和校风——重新体会中国过去百年的风云变幻。
2017年5月24日 已读
作者小学班主任评语:如能爱众亲仁,则美玉无暇矣。此书亦是。
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