本书用不足十万字的篇幅，厘清了明史上最为纠缠繁复又影响最深远的梃击、红丸、移宫三案。而在进入具体的“案情分析”之前，作者从帝权与相权的矛盾入手，到万历“造因”为止，从制度层面交代三案动因，从帝王层面交代三案导火线，将明代的皇权与相权，朝廷与宦官，以及三大案的来龙去脉、前因后果、相互联系等条分缕析，给读者呈现出一幅明末宫廷、朝政和社会清晰生动的立体图形。

这是剑桥大学梅特兰教授向学生讲授英格兰宪政史的课堂讲义的译著。原著作者将英格兰公法发展阶段划分为五个阶段，并对每个阶段立法的总体特征、王权、议会、中央及地方政府、司法等方面的宪政运作状况予以了总结介绍，并进行了深入细致的分析。清晰完美地梳理了英格兰法律发展和宪政运作脉络。本书虽非梅特兰精雕细琢之成熟作品，但并非简单的历史资料的堆砌，而是着眼于对法律运行过程的审视和探讨，背景资料翔实，分析细致入微并涵盖了大量的原创性观点，为我们学习和研究英格兰宪政史提供了很好的引领。其独特的阶段划分方法也为我们研究英国宪政史提供了不同寻常的观测点，对既有历史著述做出了重要补充。本书系统全面，条理清晰，翻译流畅，完全符合中国读者的阅读习惯。是广大比较法研究者、法学研究者以及法学爱好者、英国宪政史、法律发展史研究者以及英国政治爱好者不可多得的一本出色的著作。

"This is an immensely useful book for sociologists working in a wide range of sub-fields. It confirms Freidson's status among the leading exponents of the old Chicago tradition. This book is catholic in its reading, sophisticated in its arguments and cautious in its judgements."--Robert Dingwall, "Sociology"
"As an attempt to provide a complex, wide-ranging account this book should be essential reading for specialist students, and it should act as a stimulus for the extension of both empirical research and theory."--Alex Faulkner, "Sociological Review"
"Freidson's book is a concise introduction to the professions, challenging specialists with its puncturing of theoretically induced misconceptions and offering general readers a clear but critical entree to the theoretical literature concerning this central aspect of modern society."--Andrew Abbott, "Science"
"This is a stimulating and well-written book which opens up a new perspective on the professions as well as contributing to existing debates."--David Podmore, "Times Higher Education Supplement"

When Isaac Newton published the "Principia" three centuries ago, only a few scholars were capable of understanding his conceptually demanding work. Yet this esoteric knowledge quickly became accessible in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Britain produced many leading mathematical physicists. In this book, Andrew Warwick shows how the education of these "masters of theory" led them to transform our understanding of everything from the flight of a boomerang to the structure of the universe. Warwick focuses on Cambridge University, where many of the best physicists trained. He begins by tracing the dramatic changes in undergraduate education there since the 18th century, especially the gradual emergence of the private tutor as the most important teacher of mathematics. Next he explores the material culture of mathematics instruction, showing how the humble pen and paper so crucial to this study transformed everything from classroom teaching to final examinations. Balancing their intense intellectual work with strenuous physical exercise, the students themselves - known as the "Wranglers" - helped foster the competitive spirit that drove them in the classroom and informed the Victorian ideal of a manly student. Finally, by investigating several historical "cases", such as the reception of Albert Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, Warwick shows how the production, transmission and reception of new knowledge was profoundly shaped by the skills taught to Cambridge undergraduates. Drawing on a wealth of new archival evidence and illustrations, "Master of Theory" examines the origins of a cultural tradition through which the complex world of theoretical physics was made commonplace.

In seventeenth-century France, land took on new importance for the practice of politics and rituals of court life. In her major new book, Chandra Mukerji highlights the connections between the two seemingly disparate activities of engineering and garden design. She shows how, at Versailles in particular, the royal park showcased French skills in using nature and art to design a distinctively French landscape and create a naturalized political territoriality. She challenges the association of state power with social and legal structures alone and demonstrates the importance for Louis XIV and his state of a controlled physical site, a demarcated French territory within the wider European geo-political continent.

Economic modernity is so closely associated with nationhood that it is impossible to imagine a modern state without an equally modern economy. Even so, most people would have difficulty defining a modern economy and its connection to nationhood. In Saving the Nation, Margherita Zanasi explores this connection by examining the first nation-building attempt in China after the fall of the empire in 1911.
Challenging the assumption that nations are products of technological and socioeconomic forces, Zanasi argues that it was notions of what constituted a modern nation that led the Nationalist nation-builders to shape China’s institutions and economy. In their reform effort, they confronted several questions: What characterized a modern economy? What role would a modern economy play in the overall nation-building effort? And how could China pursue economic modernization while maintaining its distinctive identity? Zanasi expertly shows how these questions were negotiated and contested within the Nationalist Party. Silenced in the Mao years, these dilemmas are reemerging today as a new leadership once again redefines the economic foundation of the nation.

★法国年鉴历史学派史学大师马克·布洛赫经典之作
★《国王神迹》研究10-18世纪间英、法两国广泛流行的一种历史现象——国王以触摸为臣民治疗瘰疬病，人们则普遍相信国王“御触”可治愈这种疾病——以及这种现象发生、发展与衰落的过程。
★汉语世界首次翻译——百年老店，商务印书 馆精装珍藏版
★《国王神迹》一种奇迹的整体史，包含着依旧新颖的巨大思想库：对历史社会的仪式、图像以及手势的研究，在很大程度上仍是今天可资利用与发展的。
★意大利历史学家卡洛·金兹堡、法国历史学家雅克·勒高夫为《国王神迹》撰写了长篇导读文章，英国历史学家彼特．伯克推荐《国王神迹》为“未来历史学家”必读书目。
★一部潜入“深层”历史的作品，是当代为数不多的常读常新的历史著作。
编辑推荐：
《国王神迹》全书的研究对象，是中世纪11世纪到18世纪期间，广泛流行于法、英两国的一种现象，即国王以手触摸为瘰疬病患者治病，以及人们相信国王的触摸能够治愈这种疾病的普遍心态。瘰疬病是近代以前世界各国常见的一种疾病，即淋巴结结核、慢性淋巴结等炎症。这种疾病如其他任何病一样都不是国王可以治愈的，但在11-18世纪的英、法两国，却形成了国王以手触摸治疗这种疾病的习俗，而且人们对此深信不疑，成为普遍的信仰。国王为人治病这种习俗，与人们相信国王能为人治病这种心态，犹如一对连体婴儿，是这一时期英法两国盛行的历史现象。
布洛赫写作《国王神迹》的目的，是通过一个长期存在而不被人重视的现象，研究广义的欧洲政治史。布洛赫没有像传统史学那样去研究王权制度下行政、司法与经济体系的运作，而是研究长期存在的国王为人治病习俗，普通民众怀有的“国王具有神奇医治力量”的信仰，以及二者之间的互动过程；通过研究一种存在长达八个世纪之久的“神圣化”的王权治病仪式，以及与这种仪式密切关联的一种集体心态或信仰体系，展现前现代王权对民众思想与精神实施控制的运作机制。布洛赫认为这一动态过程的演变，反映了自古以来人们相信“王权”神秘力量的“集体意识”、一种意识趋向。
★《国王的神迹》开创了新政治史的先河，树立了新政治史研究的实践榜样。本书向人们证明了在历史研究中，“迄今为止仅被视为趣闻的东西可以转变为历史”。
★开辟了民众史研究的新境域。虽然研究王权政治神学，但同样重视研究民众信仰，尤其是民众的信仰接受心理，民众如何将神圣事物和凡俗事物联系起来，王权如何利用这种联系性来维系政治合法性。《国王神迹》一书中作者很乐意揭露阴谋，并表明在英国和法国国王治疗瘰疬病的背后隐藏着的是有意识的政治策略。另一方面，作者也力图理解为什么那些穷人、乞丐和妇女要经历那么漫长的朝圣历程以求治愈自己的病症。
★扩展了历史学研究的资料范围——作者用他的“强大粉碎机”将形形色色的历史事实融为一体。
《国王神迹》中，作者扩展了历史研究的内涵，将貌似荒诞的主题纳入历史研究的范围；扩大了历史研究使用的材料，将以往拒之门外的材料变成了活生生的史料，可谓点石成金。
肖像材料（包括绘画作品）的利用占有相当大的分量。另外，宫廷账簿、公文资料、叙事文学、政治学理论著作、小册子、教堂人口登记簿、医学与神学论文、《圣经》、宗教祈祷文、诗文、法律诉讼文件、信件、钱币、遗嘱等，甚至连游戏纸牌、酒肆小店中村夫野老的对话，都成为了历史研究的材料。将历史研究利用的资料扩展到如此广泛的范围，这在传统史学研究是做不到的，也是不可想象的。
★历史人类学的创立。在书中作者清楚而有力地证明：王权的超自然性是与一系列仪式相联系的，其中最重要的有涂油礼、圣餐礼、戒指圣经礼等，这些仪式本身具有神秘感与神圣性；与这些仪式之间的固定联系，赋予国王触摸治疗活动以神圣性与神秘感。正是在这些合法的神圣仪式的联系中，王权的神圣性建立起来，王权的正当性与合法性也建立起来。
内容简介：
《国王神迹》研究10-18世纪间英、法两国广泛流行的一种历史现象——国王以触摸为臣民治疗瘰疬病（scrofula），人们则普遍相信国王“御触”可治愈这种疾病——以及这种现象发生、发展与衰落的过程。其目的是由长时段中的“一种奇迹”及其仪式，展示一种长期支配人们思想的“精神力量”，即民众对“国王具有医治疾病的神奇力量”这一信念的信仰；这一信仰反映了人们相信王权神秘力量的“集体意识”，展示了这一时期民众王权观念的具体形态。《国王神迹》所使用的观念及设定的纲领与方法，对后世年鉴派学者的心态史研究产生了极大的影响，是名副其实的历史人类学的经典之作。
相关评论：
★英国著名史学家彼特．伯克指出，该著作的卓越之处有三：一是它不限于中世纪那样的传统历史阶段，而是选择了与问题相适应的时段，他将八个世纪国王触摸的兴衰作为考察对象，意味着“长时段”研究方法的运用；二是对“宗教心理学”的贡献。《国王神迹》关注的是“一种奇迹的历史”，布洛赫从“集体幻觉”现象解释人们对国王奇迹的信仰，认为对奇迹的信仰产生于对奇迹的期盼。这样的解释跨越了心理学、社会学与人类学之间的学科界限。三是它对英法王权触摸行为的比较研究，为“比较史”研究做出了贡献。
★ “这个重要的研究由于它对中世纪观念史的广泛兴趣，也由于文献众多，为我们研究古文献的历史学家提供了有益且新颖的资料”。——语文学家恩内斯特·厄普夫内
★“你研究的国王‘奇迹’令我极感兴趣，我研究的是一些社会中的所谓原始心态，这些社会不同于你可能研究的社会，但我感谢那些像你一样，研究历史上相近地域与时间中相似心态的人。它将为我提供可贵的反思与比较材料。”—— 吕西安·列维-布留尔
★ “该书具有罕见的优秀品质：它是斯特拉斯堡图书馆从刚成立的文学院得到的瑰宝之一。我曾常对布洛赫说，这是他的著作中我最欣赏的部分——他愉快地说感谢我‘对这个粗劣作品’的好感。”——吕西安·费弗尔
★ “如果我知道您的著作，我肯定会修正我关于专制主义学说的一些观点。毫无疑问，研究不应只局限于一些作者的‘社会哲学’，但是，您知道，深入研究民众的情感很不容易，在这个意义上，您将为研究政治观念的史学家确立方向。“——亨利·塞

马克•布洛赫是20世纪极为重要的史学大师，作为大师一生治史经验的结晶，本书从历史审美的角度着眼，为历史研究的合法性进行辩护，提醒世人注重求真的同时，也要悉心保存历史的诗意；在对历史进行体悟的同时，要善于从历史遗迹找寻历史的脉络，注重培养历史学家的想象力，由古知今，由今知 古，力求通古今之变，提升历史研究的境界。

A survey of popular culture in 16th century Italy. Ginzburg’s study The Cheese & The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller, first published in 1976, is one of those fascinating micro-histories which explores the remote lives of unknown and forgotten people. The story of Menocchio is one of a peasant life of obscurity but also one of strange and powerful ideas – confused and half-baked even – but powerful enough to bring him into conflict with the Inquisition and thereafter to the final purgatorial flames.
“I have said that, in my opinion, all was chaos … and out of that bulk a mass formed – just as cheese is made out of milk – and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels, and among that number of angels, there was also God, he too having been created out of that mass at the same time ….”
This was Menocchio’s own version of Genesis, recounted at his first interrogation: it has perhaps something in common with modern chaos theory. Sadly, the inquisitors did not appreciate the idea that God might have started out as a worm in a primordial curd. Nonetheless, this was Menocchio’s oft-repeated explanation, one he never recanted. More than an independent mind, Menocchio’s was a rebel spirit, harshly critical of Church and clergy and determined to have his say. His ‘learning’ was a fascinating hotch-potch of superstition, oral tradition, ‘strong’ ideas, misunderstood reading, peasant radicalism, paganism and ‘cottage cheese cosmology’. Ginzburg’s book details the patient mechanism of the Inquisition in Counter Reformation Italy as it sought to eradicate suspected heresy and heretical groups rather in the same way that Stalin suspected counter-revolution everywhere.
Bruno burned for the books he had written; Menocchio burned for the books he had misunderstood. Both burnings demonstrate among other things the truth of the old adage; a little learning can be a dangerous thing. Menocchio’s roasting generated more heat than light but at least it did not contradict the Laws of Thermodynamics. Today in Montereale the visitor will find the Domenico Scandella Social Centre. In the piazza there is a monument in the form of a large wheel of cheese with one slice missing. Our heretic has become a hero. Stephen Dedalus said of Bruno that, heretic or not, ‘he was terribly burnt’; so was the poor miller from Friuli.

新时代拉开帷幕，伊丽莎白女王艰难地在不断变化的世界中前行，同时维系着君主制以及自己的婚姻。

Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant enquiry into the question of nationalism won further acclaim for his 'colossal stature ... his incontrovertible excellence as an historian, and his authoritative and highly readable prose'. Recent events in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics have since reinforced the central importance of nationalism in the history of political evolution and upheaval. This second edition has been updated in the light of those events, with a final chapter addressing the impact of the dramatic changes that have taken place. It also includes additional maps to illustrate nationalities, languages and political divisions across Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Kenneth M. Straus (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1990) draws, in this study, both on academic training in the fields of Russian/soviet history and comparative labor history and also on work experience as a welder in shipbuilding. He conducted research for this study in Moscow in 1986-87 and in 1992, and completed it while teaching at Binghamton University, 1990-1997.

《上海警察(1927-1937)》系统地研究和描述1927年至1937年上海特别市警政及其与多种政治力量对抗与台作的历史，其中重点分析了国民党如何在这十年中依靠警察力量将上海转变成一个国民党表现自身的舞台；澄清了国民党政权其他方面的问题，包括中央的党国体制与民国地方势力间的关系，秘密组织和犯罪集团在腐蚀国家政治机构中的作用，警察力量和民间势力在都市中的平衡，在军事八侵和占领的巨大压力下上海政治组织的演变；并在“新市政秩序的局限”中对上海公安局最终失败的原因作了深入的剖析。作者魏斐德完全摆脱了孤立地就警察论警察的模式，而将上海警政的变迁与整个城市治安环境的变迁乃至20世纪中国的政治变迁有机地结台起来加以考察，缜密地分析论证了国民政府上海公安局的成立、作用及其演变，体现出一个史学大家的大史识和大视野。可以说，这是一部上海警察研究的开创性著作，也是一部有关城市社会控制的范式性著作。法国知名汉学家白吉尔教授称这部著作“必将具有历久不衰的学术价值”。

Chinese history, institutions, and thought from 500 BC to 1949, with particular emphasis on sociology and economic history of ancient China.

《糟糕历史》是CBBC出品的一档儿童节目，但吸引到了各个年龄段的观众，在IMDB上有高达9.1的评分。该节目用喜剧的视角向观众朋友们展示历史上最囧的一面，涉及到古希腊、古罗马、阿兹台克、印加、世界大战以及英国历史上各王朝等，内容丰富，寓教于乐。几位演员可谓全才，对各种类型的角色的塑造堪称经典，并且能歌善舞。《糟糕历史》中的歌舞桥段，可谓一大看点。总之，一句话形容，就是“外表荒诞无节操，内心高洁学问高”。

Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used to justify religious movements and political campaigns alike. Dictators may suppress history because it undermines their ideas, agendas, or claims to absolute authority. Nationalists may tell false, one-sided, or misleading stories about the past. Political leaders might mobilize their people by telling lies. It is imperative that we have an understanding of the past and avoid these and other common traps in thinking to which many fall prey. This brilliantly reasoned work, alive with incident and figures both great and infamous, will compel us to examine history anew—and skillfully illuminates why it is important to treat the past with care.

1949年以后的数十年间，国内史学界有关中国近代历史的书写，基本上等同于中国革命史的书写。在业已“告别革命”的今天，我们不能仅仅简单地放弃、淡忘或者否定那些曾经长期沉迷的观念，而有必要追问，那些早已成为我们思想价值观念的革命话语和革命政治文化是如何建构起来的？又是如何演变的？由于近代中国革命离我们太近，我们常常因置身其中而对习以为常的问题缺乏敏感性。适度拉开一点距离，以一种“去熟悉化”的眼光来重新检视，也许能引发新的认识和新的思考。本书的思考即就此而展开。
本书从社会文化的角度考察民国政治，其突出特点在于“去熟悉化”，即对民国史的一些传统观点提出挑战，譬如关于民国县长和保长的政治、生活情境、关于国民党在西南联合大学的活动、关于新文化运动的发生发展等等，都有新的诠释，也更接近历史的真实。