英帝国非殖民化决策与非洲--战后初期工党政府非殖民化路线的制定

战后英国在放弃还是保存帝国这样的一个两难悖论中挣扎的时候,非洲的价值却因其巨大的资源以及战略优势引起了英国的注意,于是非洲被放入了非殖民化时期帝国语境下进行重新审视.由于对非洲在未来帝国生存模式重组方面可能会发挥的巨大作用,英国开始了以非洲为中心的帝国非殖民化的探索进程,但这同时也将是以非洲为中心重组一个隐性帝国的历程.     

唐朝与阿拉伯帝国海路香料贸易初探

唐代是中阿贸易发展史上的一个关键时期。一方面，从唐代中后期开始，海上丝路逐渐取代陆上丝路成为中阿贸易的主通道，加速了唐以后中阿海路贸易的发展。另一方面，中阿海路贸易物品种类明显增多，贸易航线更为明确，贸易互补性进一步加强。对唐代中阿海路贸易交通线、中阿海路贸易香料种类及香料贸易互补性等问题的探讨，有助于唐代中外贸易史和中阿关系史研究的不断深入。     

奥古斯都行省改革政策论析

奥古斯都统治时期,对行省制度进行了改革,在各行省建立起比较完备的、有效的行政管理体制.本文主要从奥古斯都对行省总督的管理与监督,创设行省议会,加强行省法制,建设道路和传递信息系统,建立军人金库和实施裁军政策等几个方面,比较深入地探讨了奥古斯都的行省改革政策.     

论波斯帝国对犹太民族的统治政策

波斯帝国对犹太民族的统治政策与古代许多帝国的征服政策不同,它对被征服地区往往采取极为宽容的统治方略,这一点在它对犹太民族的统治政策中体现得最为明显。波斯帝国对犹太民族的统治政策主要表现在三个方面：政治上,犹太民族不仅建立了神权自治政体,后来甚至取得了行省自治;经济上,犹太民族的负担从帝国与行省的双重压力向帝国的单一负担过渡;宗教上,犹太民族成功地重建了圣殿并取得了神权自治地位。波斯帝国对被征服民族统治政策的独特性对于我们重新认识这一帝国具有重要意义。     

中阿古代科技文明兴衰的比较研究与启示——兼论中国科技创新的可持续发展战略问题

目前,中国正在大规模地开展自主科技创新研究与“创新型国家”的建设,科技创新的可持续发展问题是其中需要认真研究的重要问题之一。本文结合中古阿拉伯帝国时期科学文明的兴衰探讨了影响科技创新可持续发展的几个重要因素,剖析了我国科技创新所面临的困境及其迫切需要处理的三个方面的重要关系问题。     

从民族宗教到帝国宗教——基督教的产生与发展历程

基督教产生于罗马帝国的全盛时代 ,初始是犹太人的民族宗教 ,是被压迫者的宗教。但基督教在成长过程中信徒的民族成分、阶级成分、教义以及与罗马帝国的关系都发生了很大变化 ,最终一步步发展为罗马帝国各阶层人士都信奉的帝国宗教。     

悬置之思：论《等待野蛮人》中的不确定性

在后现代主义文学视域下,从主题、形象、情节三个方面详细剖析文本中的不确定性。库切以不确定的后现代主义创作手法铸就了鲜明的讽喻利器,置疑帝国＂逻各斯中心＂形而上学的神话,进而得出帝国自我瓦解的必然性,被殖民者重获命名之权。     

‘SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGES OF THOUGHT’: EMPIRE'S INSERTS

Scattered throughout Hardt and Negri's Empire are a number of short sections whose manifesto-like energy contrasts with the relatively expository style of the main text. These passages, modeled after the scholie of Spinoza's Ethics, are meant to suggest new ways of thinking about material already presented, to highlight the affective aspect of the material, and to point to hidden connections among different discursive elements. Several of these which did not appear in the published version of Empire for reasons of space are published here for the first time. The matters touched on are as diverse as those in Empire itself: Totality as a philosophical problem, the gender of biopolitical production, the relationship between genocide and the nationstate, the possibility of hope; the paradoxes of unemployment, the function of fear, postmodern prophecy,Hollywood's imperial fantasy, and the paradoxical relationship between being-against and love that has puzzled and fascinated many of Empire's readers.     

Jewish acculturation in late nineteenth-century Russia: the case of Yonah Berkhin

Young Jewish students in the Pale of Settlement have not received comprehensive scholarly attention, despite their impact on Jewish politics and the public sphere in the late nineteenth century. Typically, representations of Jewish pupils and students are limited to the study of small and non-representative radical groups. This paper fills this gap through a contextualized examination of the practices and meanings of acculturation among educated Jewish youth. It focuses on a previously unknown diary by Yonah Berkhin, a Jewish teenager who strove to obtain a secondary education between 1879 and 1882. The discussion of this document adds a critical contextual perspective to the existing scholarship on acculturation among Jewish learning youth in late nineteenth-century Russia. I suggest that acculturation was a complex, multidirectional process. I show how, rather than merely creating alienation from Jewish society – which is often described as a “departure” leading either to a complete assimilation or to “repentance” and “return” – acculturation created new as well as modified existing modes of attachment to Jewish society.     

Anti-Jewish disturbances in the North-Western provinces in the early 1880s

This article is devoted to a single wave of anti-Jewish violence in Lithuania which spread through northern Lithuania during the first half of the summer of 1900. It claims that specific incidents that took place during the first half of 1900 at Konstantinovo (news of an allegedly kidnapped girl, the so-called Jewish “procession” and a domestic dispute between Jews and the priest's workmen) were among the most important reasons for the pogroms. At the same time, it is clear that there were some more general (structural) changes in this society which facilitated the occurrence of violence (changes in the economy, growing Lithuanian nationalism, antisemitic tendencies, and pogroms in the south of the Romanov empire in the early 1880s, because they established the idea that violence against Jews was somehow legitimate). Peasants in the Panev??ys and ?iauliai districts took up violence against Jews because, as they understood it, an offence had been committed which no one else (especially the authorities) would put right and so Jews would go unpunished. Uncontrolled rumours ruled the mobs. Since Catholic peasant religious sentiments had been affected the most, it was common religious identity that drew people into a temporary community of action. When Jews were beaten in public spaces, the doors and windows of their houses smashed, the Jews were not only being punished for their alleged offences, but being shown the clearly delineated boundaries within the local social hierarchy. In public life, Jews were supposed to submit to the monopoly of power enjoyed by the Catholic community. Thus, this wave of anti-Jewish violence essentially differs from the deadly pogroms that took place in the early twentieth century in other gubernias of the Jewish Pale of Settlement.