★ 尚未上市即引起媒体热议，入围2021新京报年度阅读推荐榜 ★ 穿过传统中国史的缝隙，书写一部藏在海贝里的全球史 栖息在马尔代夫群岛周边海域的软体生物——海贝，从史前时期开始，就被货贸至亚非欧大陆的各个区域，并逐渐转变为人类历史上最早的一种货币。作者从这一微小的海洋生物着手，把从考古时期到二十世纪初的历史碎片拼凑起来，以全球史的视野，对亚非欧大陆内外的贝币进行了考察，描绘了一个奇妙且引人入胜的贝币世界，展现了一部鲜为人知的全球史。 《海贝与贝币》描绘了在两千年时间里，以贝币为媒介的市场是如何将语言复杂、文化多元的印度洋世界整合为一体的，而全球资本主义又是如何终结这个世界的。全书按区域展开分析，同时又超越区域的界限，结合了中国史和世界史两种叙事体系。海贝文化体现出了一种“全球在地性”，即它既是地方性的，也是全球性的；而将陆地世界和海洋世界联系起来的贝币世界，则为全球史提供了一个全新的视角。 【本书荣誉】 这本书不仅是一部有关海贝的传奇，还是一部由贝币交错串联起来的全球史。这是杨斌教授的一部世界史力作：它既向我们展示了贝币在全球体系内作为支撑性基础货币的区域和地方性特色，又揭示了它在东半球传播的广度。从海贝本身到其作为货币的兴衰，本书描绘了一幅它在东半球六个区域内传播的历史画卷。 ——帕特里克·曼宁， 匹兹堡大学安德鲁·W. 梅隆讲席教授、美国历史学会前任主席 杨斌的《海贝与贝币：鲜为人知的全球史》是迄今为止对这种主要货币（贝币）最全面的研究之一。它建立在坚实的历史资料之上，必将与万志英的《财富之泉：11~18世纪中国的货币和货币政策》等作品一样，成为货币史上的经典。《海贝与贝币》应被放在全球历史学家和货币史学家的书架上。 ——丹尼斯·O. 弗林，美国著名经济学家 研究人员和教员若在他们的书目和课程大纲中加入这一研究成果，定会有很大收获……世界史的学生和教员在用海贝拼凑我们全球历史的碎片时，会从这部重要的作品中获益匪浅。 ——埃里克·施皮雷尔，美国马萨诸塞州格罗顿学校助理教师

A history of the project of world government, from the first post-Napoleonic visions of the brotherhood of man to the current crisis of global finance. The Napoleonic Wars showed Europe what sort of damage warring states could do. But how could sovereign nations be made to share power and learn to look beyond their own narrow interests? The old monarchs had one idea. Mazzini and the partisans of nationalist democracy had another, and so did Marx and the radical Left. It is an argument that has raged for two hundred years now, and Mark Mazower tells its history enthrallingly in Governing the World . With each era, the stakes have grown higher as the world has grown smaller and the potential rewards to cooperation and damage from conflict have increased. As Mark Mazower shows us, each age’s dominant power has set the tune, and for nearly a century that tune has been sung in English. He begins with Napoleon’s defeat, in 1815, when England, Russia, Austria, and Prussia formed the Concert of Europe. Against this, there emerged many of the ideas that would shape the international institutions of the twentieth century–liberal nationalism, communism, the expertise of the scientist and the professional international lawyers. Mazower traces these ideas into the Great War through to the League of Nations. He explains how the League collapsed when confronted by the atrocities of the Third Reich, and how a more hard-nosed approach to international governance emerged in its wake. The United Nations appeared in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, and a war-fighting alliance led by Great Britain and the United States was ultimately what transformed into an international peacetime organization. Mazower examines the ideas that shaped the UN, the compromises and constraints imposed by the Cold War and its transformation in the high noon of decolonization. The 1970s ushered in a sea change in attitudes to international government through the emergence of a vision of globalized capitalism in the 1970s that marginalized the UN itself and utilized bodies like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization—the final acts of Anglo- American institution-building. But the sun is setting on Anglo-American dominance of the world’s great international institutions. We are at the end of an era, Mazower explains, and we are passing into a new age of global power relations, a shift whose outcome is still very much in question.

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Periods of increased equality are usually born of carnage and disaster and are generally short-lived, disappearing with the return of peace and stability. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world. Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling—mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues—have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future. An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent—and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.

了解近代中英政治文化互動的濃縮之作 中國的崛起，會改變長時期由西方工業和民主國家建立起來的國際體系嗎？ 儒家傳統蘊含可以與現代世界的人類普世價值相融通的道德前景嗎？ 崛起的中國，能夠引領中華文明的更新，以促進國際體系的平等嗎？ 本書根據作者在香港中文大學余英時講座所作的演講修改而成。作者是以海外華人的視角來思考「現代中國國家建構」的過程，視野寬廣而具歷史的深思，討論了中國人關於中國在世界史中的地位的意識，追尋了將中國推向現代全球轉型的特徵，並描繪了中國不得不面對的自身陣痛，說明崛起的中國，應如何引領中華文明更新，在當今聯繫緊密的世界中尋求恰當的定位。 如想從中國傳統根源到追尋路徑來思考中國現代化的過程，這部沉思集是不可失的著作。 本書特色： 1. 作者為著名的歷史學家，在中國歷史、海外華人、民族主義方面均有深厚的研究根底。這本為講稿改寫成的著作，篇幅不長，是為一本了解近代中英政治文化互動的濃縮的歷史課題之作。 2. 專業而又從中國歷史文化本位出發，冷靜客觀分析中國人關於中國在世界史中的地位的意識，並深究了將中國推向現代全球轉型的特徵。 3. 普及的歷史政治學讀物，適合不同年齡層人士閱讀。 4. 此書分別探究中國人自古以來的世界觀、「民族」、「國家主權」、「革命」等概念在中國歷史發展中的演變，並藉此總結中國近百年來如何努力邁向現代化國家，並重建古代文化與現代文明相連之路。