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The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.
蔣廷黻是第一流的近代史學者,也是一個傑出的外交家。 他從歷史的後台走向外交的前台,揭開了時代的帷幕。 蔣廷黻從小立志做大事,幼年在家鄉私塾讀四書五經,十歲時因科舉被廢除,轉學到湖南湘潭的教會學校,遇到恩師也是傳教士的林格爾夫人,後因她的幫助到美國念中學,1923年獲得哥倫比亞大學歷史學博士。學成歸國,先後在南開大學、清華大學歷史系任教,開始在學術界嶄露頭角。蔣介石看到蔣廷黻在《獨立評論》和《大公報》上的政論文章和有關對蘇、對日的外交政策,賞識他的才華,延攬他進入國府工作...