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The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences by Katja Guenther 《镜子与心灵:人类科学中的自我认知史》,作者:Katja Guenther
4区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/jinh_r_01981
Henry M. Cowles
Is history a mirror? One steals glimpses of this question throughout this excellent book, even though the author never steps through the looking-glass to answer it directly. Guenther’s subject is the mirror test, defined broadly as the use of mirrors to probe the capacity for self-recognition. This is a serious and superb intellectual history, tracking how mirrors function as material and metaphorical reflections of cognition across a range of fields. But the book also reflects aspects of the historian’s craft, or at least of the assumptions we bring to it. Near the frame, where the glass warps, there is a flickering image of the historian at work, projecting a model of the mind many of us take for granted onto the very figures who brought that model into being.Guenther’s chapters sketch a menagerie of human and non-human animals placed before mirrors. From Charles Darwin’s son in 1840, to many monkeys over the last century, to patients with “phantom limb” a decade ago, test subjects have helped hone ideas about consciousness, cognition, and cultural difference. In the first chapter, we watch the capacity for self-recognition become a milestone in child development; in the second, this capacity becomes quantitative data amid psychology’s shift toward behaviorism. Subsequently, robots and apes trouble our human exceptionalism by reacting to their reflections, and a wide range of humans in the second half of the book do the same by failing to react to theirs. Guenther gathers, chapter by the chapter, an exciting cast of characters around the scientific and medical mirror.And that is to say nothing of the book’s main subjects, the researchers and clinicians who scribbled notes and published papers about those whose behavior they observed. Figures like the cybernetician William Grey Walter and the psychiatrist Hilde Bruch drive the plot, even as apes and children (including Guenther’s own) are the ones looking in the mirror. It is in the ideas and ambitions of these scientific and medical practitioners that readers will begin to feel that they are staring not at historical actors, but at historians—that is, at themselves. After all, history is often classified as a human science, and we historians observe and account for behaviors as much as Guenther’s psychologists and primatologists do. What might we learn about our own limits by attending to theirs? How might The Mirror and the Mind be a mirror of our own minds?The advent of the “proper” mirror test, or the “mark test,” is a case in point. Developed in the late-1960s for infants and chimpanzees, testers “marked” subjects with dye and then exposed them to their reflections. If subjects rubbed at the dye, it was a sign that they saw “themselves” in the mirror, rather than a playmate or a rival. Gordon Gallup, one of the test’s inventors, used it to stretch the still-dominant paradigm of behaviorism. By plotting changes in chimpanzee behavior over time, Gallup thought he was seeing the kind of higher
历史是一面镜子吗?在这本优秀的书中,人们可以隐约看到这个问题,尽管作者从未穿过镜子直接回答这个问题。Guenther的实验对象是镜子测试,其广义的定义是使用镜子来探测自我认知的能力。这是一部严肃而卓越的思想史,追踪了镜子如何在一系列领域中作为认知的物质和隐喻反映发挥作用。但这本书也反映了历史学家手艺的各个方面,或者至少是我们给它带来的假设。在玻璃扭曲的画框附近,有一幅历史学家在工作的闪烁图像,将我们许多人认为理所当然的思维模式投射到创造这种模式的人物身上。冈瑟的章节描绘了一个人类和非人类动物的动物园,它们被放置在镜子前。从1840年查尔斯·达尔文的儿子,到上个世纪的许多猴子,再到十年前患有“幻肢”的病人,实验对象帮助我们磨练了关于意识、认知和文化差异的想法。在第一章中,我们看到自我认知能力成为儿童发展的一个里程碑;在第二种情况下,随着心理学向行为主义的转变,这种能力变成了定量数据。随后,机器人和猿类通过对它们的反思做出反应来扰乱我们的人类例外论,而在书的后半部分,大量的人类也因为没有对自己的反思做出反应而重蹈覆辙。冈瑟一章一章地围绕着科学和医学的镜子,讲述了一群令人兴奋的人物。更不用说这本书的主要研究对象了,这些研究人员和临床医生对他们观察到的那些人的行为做了笔记,并发表了论文。控制论专家威廉·格雷·沃尔特(William Grey Walter)和精神病学家希尔德·布鲁赫(Hilde Bruch)等人物推动了情节的发展,而照镜子的是猿类和儿童(包括冈瑟自己的孩子)。正是在这些科学和医学从业者的思想和抱负中,读者会开始感到他们不是在盯着历史演员,而是在盯着历史学家——也就是说,在盯着他们自己。毕竟,历史经常被归类为人类科学,我们历史学家观察和解释行为,就像冈瑟的心理学家和灵长类动物学家所做的那样。通过关注他人的极限,我们能了解到自己的哪些极限呢?《镜子与心灵》怎么可能是我们自己心灵的一面镜子呢?“适当的”镜像测试或“标记测试”的出现就是一个很好的例子。这种方法是在20世纪60年代后期为婴儿和黑猩猩开发的,测试者用染料“标记”受试者,然后让他们看到自己的倒影。如果受试者摩擦染料,这表明他们在镜子里看到了“自己”,而不是玩伴或竞争对手。该测试的发明者之一戈登·盖洛普(Gordon Gallup)用它来扩展仍然占主导地位的行为主义范式。通过绘制黑猩猩行为随时间的变化,盖洛普认为他看到了许多严格的行为主义者发誓放弃的那种更高层次的认知功能。Guenther提醒我们,在探索标记测试的发展过程中,人类科学必须弥合一个鸿沟——在这个例子中,从猿抓挠到自我识别。从这个角度来看,心理学是我们讲述的连接大脑和行为的故事。这和历史有什么关系?比表面上看到的要多得多。通过盖洛普和其他人的努力,冈瑟讲述了标记测试的历史,反映了我们自己的方法。我们怎么知道演员脑子里在想什么?我们弥合了差距,就像盖洛普所做的那样。我们通过可观察到的痕迹来推断动机和精神状态,在这样做的过程中,我们实践了冈瑟如此令人钦佩地将其历史化的行为主义。作为一个领域,我们经历了许多“转折”:社会的、文化的、物质的、情感的。但在每一个的核心都是同样的心智模式,通过外在行为揭示的内在生活。冈瑟的故事既不是唯物主义的反映“他们自己”的故事,也不是情感主义的反映他们的快乐的故事。相反,这本书探索并扩展了一种特殊的思想方法,在动物行为中寻找它们。所讨论的动物行为是对同一组问题的科学研究,这只会增强冈瑟这本美丽的书的镜像效应。
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The Complete Tutankhamun by Nicholas Reeves 尼古拉斯·里夫斯的《图坦卡蒙全集》
4区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/jinh_r_01979
Bob Brier
It is rare for an Egyptology book to remain in print for more than thirty years, but The Complete Tutankhamun, published in 1990, has been an invaluable research source for more than three decades. It is the go-to reference for information such as how many servant statues were buried with Tutankhamun or the meaning of the hieroglyphs on the west wall of the burial chamber. Now there is a revised and greatly enlarged new edition, with more than 600 photos, high quality paper, extensive color, and long introductory essays by the author. This handsome volume will be welcomed both by Egyptologists and the layman as there has been much new, interdisciplinary research done on Tutankhamun, the tomb, and the artifacts that the boy-king hoped to take with him to the next world.The long introductory essays at the beginning of the book are a well-written account of the discovery of the tomb, the political turmoil surrounding the excavation, Lord Carnarvon’s death, and more. It is a fascinating story well told, but this is not where we see the results of current research. In the last decade or two, new techniques have provided insights into Tutankhamun’s life and times. The mummy has now been CT-scanned, giving a far more detailed picture of the young pharaoh and dispelling erroneous theories, such as the possible blow to the back of Tutankhamun’s head suggested by old X-rays. This gave rise to the theory that he may have been murdered.1 The more detailed CT-scans clearly have shown that there was no such injury and have also given rise new theories about the boy-king, such as that Tutankhamun may have had a clubbed foot.2 Though this theory is far from certain, it is new.Reeves gives an interesting account of another modern scanning technique that has given rise to his theory that Queen Nefertiti is buried behind one of the tomb’s walls. Because many of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings are in danger of deteriorating due to moisture introduced by perspiring tourists, many of the walls have been laser scanned so that replica tombs may be constructed for visiting tourists. Reeves, a thorough researcher, obtained the original scans, in which he saw what looked like faint traces of a doorway behind the north wall’s painted surface.3 Reeves is convinced that Nefertiti, Tutankhamun’s stepmother, is buried behind the wall. This, of course, would be an incredibly important discovery and has attracted a great deal of attention. Indeed, three different radar scans have been conducted to see what is behind the wall. Only the first one—the most hastily done—claimed to have found evidence of a void behind the wall. When National Geographic was considering filming a documentary on the theory, they commissioned their own scan of the tomb, which convinced them that there was nothing behind the wall and led to the cancellation of the documentary. Another later scan produced the same results.Yet Reeves is confident that Nefertiti’s burial is behind the wall, and he presen
此外,里夫斯还描述了在坟墓中发现的所有箭、盾牌、战车和其他战争用具。新的研究带来了图坦卡蒙的新形象。现代法医面部重建也被应用于图坦卡蒙,但里夫斯正确地只给出了一页(291)。这远不能令人信服;有三种不同的图坦卡蒙的面部重建,没有一种看起来像另外两种。有人想知道为什么要进行这些研究——我们从坟墓中发现的雕像中有很多图坦卡蒙的肖像,包括著名的守护雕像、金面具、从莲花中钻出的法老木制头像等等。现代研究技术的另一个值得怀疑的应用是最近对图坦卡蒙的dna研究,从该研究中建立了一个家谱这里的问题是,对古代dna进行测序是极其困难的,通常的做法是将样本交给第二个独立的实验室来确认发现。然而,埃及当局不愿意向埃及以外的任何实验室提供样本进行确认。因此,我们不能肯定这些初步发现。另一方面,对图坦卡蒙墓中木制家具的现代研究非常成功。一个由日本和埃及专家组成的团队已经确定了十几种使用的木材,包括橡木、桦树、冷杉、杏仁和柳树。此外,通过研究树木的年轮,他们能够确定一件家具是由同一棵树制成的,还是由几棵树制成的。气象学家也一直在研究图坦卡蒙的宝藏。里夫斯指出,在坟墓中发现了几件铁器;在图坦卡蒙时代,埃及有铜和青铜,但没有铁。因此,墓中的任何铁器都被认为是非常特殊的。这些铁制品中最著名的是一把带有铁刃和水晶头的金匕首。里夫斯指出,一把类似的铁刃匕首是米塔尼国王送给图坦卡蒙的祖父阿蒙霍特普三世的,暗示这把匕首也是一种礼物。另一种可能性是,匕首是由一块陨石制成的,埃及人称之为“来自天空的铁”(bia em pet)。最近的研究表明,叶片绝对是陨石,虽然有人试图找到陨石铁的来源,铁叶片的起源仍然是一个谜。这把铁匕首很有名,被拍了很多张照片,但陵墓里的其他铁器却很少受到关注,即使是埃及学家。里夫斯展示了一套带铁刃的凿子,这是一个真正的谜团。它们看起来不像皇家工具。把手是简单的,没有装饰的木头,但刀刃是铁的,所以它们一定很特别。它们真的是被工匠使用和留下的吗?为什么要用珍贵的铁制作这么简单的工具呢?里夫斯的书展示了一系列令人眼花缭乱的对象和研究技术。他并不打算把《图坦卡蒙全集》作为跨学科研究的一个范例。事实上,在很大程度上,不同学科的图坦卡蒙研究人员并没有一起工作,甚至彼此之间也没有交流。然而,正如书中所示,图坦卡蒙研究取得了巨大的进步,而没有各个学科的协调。作者创建了一个漂亮的纲要,将被许多学科的研究人员在未来几年使用,但我对这本书有一个缺点。索引和参考书目远远不够用户友好。字体太小,条目没有列出来,而是以段落的形式排列在一起。尽管如此,我们还是应该感谢尼罗河的馈赠,它让我们对神秘的图坦卡蒙和他的世界有了新的认识。
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The Death and Life of State Repression: Understanding Onset, Escalation, Termination, and Recurrence by Christian Davenport and Benjamin J. Appel 《国家镇压的死与生:理解开始、升级、终止和复发》作者:克里斯蒂安·达文波特和本杰明·j·阿佩尔
4区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/jinh_r_01986
Myanmar’s decades-long systematic discrimination against its non-Buddhist minorities is inherently repressive. India’s new marginalization of its 200 million Muslims is clearly repressive. Ethiopia’s invasion and war against Tigray counts as state repression. So do Sudan’s past and possible ongoing genocidal acts in Darfur. Equatorial Guinea’s leaving its mainland inhabitants without access to human and economic rights is repressive. When Mozambique excludes its northernmost citizens from schooling and medical care, that is also repressive. Madagascar’s long neglect of its coastal inhabitants, favoring the lighter-skinned inhabitants of the central plateau, is also repressive.State repression is governmental behavior “that is enacted by … designated agents of … authority” who employ coercive power to compel national inhabitants to do what the state (and the leader of the state) wants them to do irrespective of their own individual, or even cultural and group, preferences. When Mao sent Chinese elites (including Xi Jinping) into the countryside to be “re-educated,” and culturally subordinated, he and his security forces were clearly repressing. Likewise, Stalin’s many gulags were repressive, just as Putin’s punishment of Alexandre Navalny and others is repressive and meant to be controlling.This tightly argued book focuses squarely on “government behavior that … historically” has unleashed violence against “large amounts of population” (148–149). The authors are interested in what they call repressive “spells” of reasonable duration. They seek to detail how those “spells”—an odd concept with diverse meanings—begin and are sustained.Large-scale, systematic repression is driven, the authors say, by domestic more than international considerations. Political threats are obvious triggers. When they lead to the onset of repression, the forces of the ongoing repression resemble a slow-moving juggernaut that accelerates relentlessly in a self-reinforcing fashion. The ruling cohort imagines that its interest lies in insulating and digging into earlier positions, “reinforcing the application of government repression even further” (34).Once it is well underway, halting repression is difficult. Indeed, as the authors assert, once a campaign of repression has begun any cancellation or relaxation of the repressive juggernaut is almost impossible absent countervailing internal opposition or concerted international action. Think of extreme cases such as Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, Ne Win’s Burma, or Sukarno’s Indonesia. Juggernauts cannot easily be disturbed (35).The dismantling of South Africa’s apartheid-driven repressive institutions after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison and Africans were allowed to vote obviously marked the end of an era of repression. “Electoral democratization,” this book declares, “reduces repression.” Indeed, democratization obliterates repression, or should, because the availability of choice usually implies that the state has become res
缅甸几十年来对非佛教少数民族的系统性歧视本质上是压制性的。印度对其2亿穆斯林的新边缘化显然是压制性的。埃塞俄比亚对提格雷的入侵和战争被视为国家镇压。苏丹在达尔富尔过去和可能正在进行的种族灭绝行为也是如此。赤道几内亚让其大陆居民无法获得人权和经济权利是一种压迫。当莫桑比克将其最北部的公民排除在教育和医疗服务之外时,这也是一种压迫。马达加斯加长期忽视沿海居民,偏爱中部高原上肤色较浅的居民,这也是一种压迫。国家镇压是“由……权威的……指定代理人”制定的政府行为,这些代理人使用强制权力迫使民族居民做国家(和国家领导人)希望他们做的事情,而不考虑他们自己的个人,甚至文化和群体的偏好。同样,斯大林的许多古拉格都是镇压性的,就像普京对亚历山大·纳瓦尔尼(Alexandre Navalny)等人的惩罚是镇压性的,意在控制。这本争论激烈的书直接聚焦于“历史上”对“大量人口”发动暴力的“政府行为”(148-149)。作者感兴趣的是他们所谓的合理持续时间的压抑“咒语”。他们试图详细描述这些“咒语”——一个有着多种含义的奇怪概念——是如何开始并持续下去的。作者说,大规模、系统的镇压是由国内因素而非国际因素驱动的。政治威胁是明显的诱因。当它们导致镇压的开始,持续镇压的力量就像一个缓慢移动的庞然大物,以一种自我强化的方式无情地加速。统治集团认为他们的利益在于隔离和挖掘早期的立场,“进一步加强政府镇压的应用”(34)。一旦它顺利进行,停止镇压是困难的。事实上,正如作者所断言的那样,一旦镇压运动开始,如果没有国内反对或协调一致的国际行动,几乎不可能取消或放松镇压的主宰。想想极端的例子,比如波尔布特的红色高棉,奈温的缅甸,或者苏加诺的印度尼西亚。神像不容易被干扰(35)。纳尔逊·曼德拉(Nelson Mandela)出狱后,南非种族隔离驱动的镇压机构被拆除,非洲人被允许投票,这显然标志着一个镇压时代的结束。“选举民主化,”这本书宣称,“减少了压制。”事实上,民主化消除了镇压,或者说应该消除镇压,因为选择的可得性通常意味着国家已经开始对人民的意愿作出反应,而不是对有压制倾向的暴君的命令作出反应。作者们很清楚:“选举民主化具有最强大的影响”,可以避免、改变和终止镇压事件——即使是非常漫长的事件(150)。但对于受压迫的民众如何推翻他们的压迫者并获得民主化的好处,作者们就不太清楚了。这本书是为政策处方服务的分析。但通往有益结果的道路却没有照亮。在这本书的大约250个案例中,很明显,当没有有意义的选举、司法或政治民主时,国家就会变得专制。同样,当这些民主形式被修改或取消时,镇压就更有可能发生。强迫(而不是说服)民众遵循统治精英的政策偏好或其自身利益的倾向,总是潜伏在政府大楼或军营里。恶霸无处不在,他们的本能是强制性的。这种对镇压的充分论证应该有助于那些试图丰富对镇压作为一种现象的理解并研究过去镇压政权的历史学家。然而,它只包括少数详细的案例研究,因此历史学家可能不得不在他们自己的案例中使用本书中开发的方法,回顾性地。
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Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality by Mariana P. Candido 《安哥拉的财富、土地和财产:剥夺、奴役和不平等的历史》作者:Mariana P. Candido
4区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/jinh_r_01995
Mariana L. R. Dantas
Candido offers a critical revision of the history of African societies’ relationship to land use and rights. In the process, she delivers an insightful and fascinating narrative about the contested process of wealth accumulation underpinning the colonial dynamics of dispossession. Candido demonstrates her impressive command of the historiographies of pre-colonial and colonial Africa and the Portuguese Atlantic, as well as her deep familiarity and skillful treatment of Angolan archival sources. The richness of the book, and Candido’s generous and detailed sharing of her archival findings, make this an essential read for scholars of Africa and the Portuguese Atlantic. Candido’s analysis of the integral role of nineteenth-century Western liberalism in the continued enslavement, displacement, and impoverishment of African peoples—through its legal, judicial, and archival promotion of individual property rights—also makes this a crucial work of global economic and political history.The book traces the history of West Central African land regimes from the 1600s to the early twentieth century to demonstrate the complex and diverse ways indigenous societies and peoples claimed and occupied land. Candido discusses claims made by West Central African rulers and individuals, notably women, during disputes between African actors, and with Portuguese settlers and interlopers. This examination underscores the relevance of land to local economic, social, and political interests while successfully dismantling the historical and historiographical trope of “wealth in people,” which has supported erroneous views that Africans emphasized control over slaves and dependents over ownership of land. The author demonstrates how a growing reliance on Portuguese written records and courts to prove land rights, and a Portuguese colonial narrative that dismissed or ignored indigenous African systems of resolution of land disputes, cemented the myth that Europeans introduced the notion of private property to a backward Africa. Practice, rhetoric, and archival biases thus came together to promote greater Portuguese state and settler encroachment in Angola, leading to patterns of land dispossession among its indigenous population.Candido’s focus on land does not distract her from the question of slavery, and she explores the connection between land and territorial dispossession and the rising vulnerability of dispossessed people, which ensured the longevity of slavery in nineteenth-century Angola despite rising Atlantic pressures to abolish it. She highlights West Central Africans’ deployment of written records and court appeals as strategies to protect their interests, socio-economic position, and freedom from slavery, revealing the wholesale impact of European colonialism on African privation and broader racial inequality during the period. The imperial state’s efforts to record people, land, and goods—and to control their integration into an economic system structured around
坎迪多对非洲社会与土地使用和权利关系的历史进行了批判性的修订。在这个过程中,她提供了一个富有洞察力和引人入胜的叙述,讲述了财富积累的竞争过程,这一过程支撑着剥夺的殖民动态。坎迪多在前殖民时期和殖民时期的非洲以及葡萄牙大西洋的历史编纂方面表现出了令人印象深刻的掌握,她对安哥拉档案资料的深入了解和熟练处理也让人印象深刻。这本书内容丰富,坎迪多慷慨而详细地分享了她的档案发现,使这本书成为研究非洲和葡萄牙大西洋的学者的必读书目。坎迪多分析了19世纪西方自由主义在非洲人民持续的奴役、流离失所和贫困中所扮演的不可或缺的角色——通过其对个人财产权的法律、司法和档案的促进——也使这本书成为全球经济和政治历史的重要著作。这本书追溯了从17世纪到20世纪初西非土地制度的历史,展示了土著社会和人民声称和占领土地的复杂多样的方式。坎迪多讨论了西非统治者和个人,特别是妇女,在非洲行动者之间以及与葡萄牙定居者和闯入者之间的争端中提出的主张。这一研究强调了土地与当地经济、社会和政治利益的相关性,同时成功地推翻了“人民的财富”的历史和史学修辞,这种修辞支持了错误的观点,即非洲人强调对奴隶和依赖者的控制,而不是土地所有权。作者展示了越来越依赖葡萄牙文字记录和法院来证明土地权,以及葡萄牙殖民时期对非洲土著解决土地纠纷制度的蔑视或忽视,巩固了欧洲人将私有财产概念引入落后非洲的神话。因此,实践、修辞和档案偏见共同推动了葡萄牙国家和殖民者对安哥拉的更大侵犯,导致了土著居民被剥夺土地的模式。坎迪多对土地的关注并没有分散她对奴隶制问题的关注,她探索了土地和领土剥夺之间的联系,以及被剥夺者日益增长的脆弱性,这确保了奴隶制在19世纪安哥拉的长期存在,尽管大西洋上要求废除奴隶制的压力越来越大。她强调了西非人利用书面记录和法庭上诉作为保护他们的利益、社会经济地位和免于奴役的策略,揭示了欧洲殖民主义对非洲贫困和更广泛的种族不平等的全面影响。帝国对人民、土地和货物的记录,以及控制他们融入以葡萄牙利益为中心的经济体系的努力,塑造了法律和法律的执行,限制了西非的自决。土著精英、非洲妇女和其他经济参与者一直在挑战这些做法。但是,通过土地交易、对人民的控制,以及通过掠夺非洲资源的大西洋体系交易的外国商品的消费,这些行为者无意中形成了一个财富积累的过程,使剥削和不平等永久化。本书的一个重要观点是,19世纪葡萄牙关于土地权利的自由主义改革在安哥拉成形,比在葡萄牙成形要早。因此,从这个角度来看,对私有财产和个人权利的拥护并不是欧洲启蒙运动的产物,而是帝国和非欧洲土地、人口和资源商品化的副产品。坎迪多在概述历史现实方面的灵巧使她的作品与最近对自由主义和资本主义的批判性研究不相上下,比如洛的《四大洲的亲密关系》,同样挑战了19世纪西方主导的现代性和进步的舒适叙述
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For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America by Jonathan D. Cohen 为了一美元和一个梦想:现代美国的州彩票,乔纳森·d·科恩著
4区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/jinh_r_01983
Jacob S. Hacker
Do you feel lucky? When Clint Eastwood asked this question on the big screen, a string of cash-strapped states were asking it of their residents, establishing the first publicly run lotteries in the United States in more than a century. Deindustrializing Northeastern states were under budgetary siege, caught between tax-resistant electorates and their own declining fortunes. They were fighting the mob and wanted to corner its winnings as well as its bosses. And they had ready customers; working-class Catholics fleeing to the suburbs were as eager to play the lottery as the Black urbanites they left behind. The states that pioneered this new wave of government gambling—New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts—were feeling lucky. Lotteries would make their day.They did not. Despite the many innovations to come—scratch-off tickets, growing jackpots, multi-state mega-prizes—lotteries did not rescue Northeastern states from tough choices in the 1970s, make up for property tax revolts in the West in the 1980s, or allow Southern states to revitalize cash-starved education systems in the 1990s. But they did become the biggest government-run business in the United States, with a staggering $45 billion revenue in 2020, surpassing even the profits of cigarettes or smartphones. In a society marked by growing inequality and insecurity, the product that lotteries offered was an increasingly improbable chance of increasingly astronomical riches.This little-known story is an ideal subject for interdisciplinary history, and Cohen seizes the opportunity. His slim book is deeply researched yet eminently readable, and it draws on political science, behavioral economics, public finance, cultural studies, and good old-fashioned political economy. Cohen is as comfortable citing Kahneman as he is Cowie, exploring popular images of wealth as trenchantly as he explicates religious ideals. He has also mined a remarkable number of archives. The only dimension that seems to be missing is the cross-national one; I could not help but wonder whether America’s lottery obsession is unique within the advanced industrial world and, if so, why.Cohen’s book has a straightforward structure, dividing the rise of state lotteries into three phases: their 1970s arrival, 1980s Western consolidation, and 1990s Southern expansion. For each, he pairs an archivally grounded history with a nuanced analysis of associated cultural and economic developments.Three sophisticated interdisciplinary claims are embedded in this simple approach. The first is that state lotteries are fundamentally the product of politics, driven by basic fiscal imperatives, elite-level jockeying, voter attitudes, and (particularly important) aggressive lobbying by the private lottery industry seeking lucrative contracts. Lotteries were established by politicians, and politicians could, in theory, dis-establish them.The second claim, which shifts the focus from politics to economics, is that the explosive growth
你觉得幸运吗?当克林特·伊斯特伍德(Clint Eastwood)在大银幕上提出这个问题时,一系列资金短缺的州也在向他们的居民提出这个问题,在美国建立了一个多世纪以来第一个公开发行的彩票。正在去工业化的东北部各州在预算上陷入困境,他们被抵制税收的选民和自己不断下降的财富夹在中间。他们与暴民斗争,想要垄断暴民的利润和暴民的老板。他们有现成的顾客;逃到郊区的工薪阶层天主教徒和他们身后的黑人城市居民一样渴望买彩票。引领这波政府赌博新浪潮的几个州——新罕布什尔、新泽西、纽约、马萨诸塞——感到很幸运。彩票会让他们很开心。他们没有。尽管有许多创新——刮刮乐彩票、越来越多的头奖、多州大奖——彩票并没有在20世纪70年代拯救东北部各州的艰难选择,也没有弥补80年代西部地区对财产税的不满,也没有让南方各州在90年代重振资金匮乏的教育系统。但它们确实成为了美国最大的政府经营企业,2020年的收入达到了惊人的450亿美元,甚至超过了香烟或智能手机的利润。在一个以日益不平等和不安全为特征的社会里,彩票提供的产品是一个越来越不可能获得越来越多的天文数字财富的机会。这个鲜为人知的故事是跨学科历史的理想主题,科恩抓住了这个机会。他那本薄薄的书研究深入,但可读性极佳,它借鉴了政治学、行为经济学、公共财政、文化研究和优秀的老式政治经济学。科恩喜欢引用卡尼曼的话,就像他喜欢引用考伊的话一样,他对流行的财富形象进行了深入的探索,就像他对宗教理想的阐释一样犀利。他还挖掘了数量惊人的档案。唯一似乎被忽略的是跨国层面;我不禁想知道,美国对彩票的痴迷在发达工业国家中是否独一无二,如果是的话,原因是什么?科恩的书结构简单明了,将州彩票的兴起分为三个阶段:20世纪70年代的到来、80年代的西部整合和90年代的南部扩张。对于每一本书,他都将基于档案的历史与相关文化和经济发展的细致分析相结合。这个简单的方法包含了三个复杂的跨学科主张。首先,州彩票从根本上说是政治的产物,受基本财政要求、精英阶层的玩弄权术、选民态度以及(尤其重要的)私人彩票行业寻求利润丰厚合同的积极游说所驱动。彩票是由政治家创立的,从理论上讲,政治家也可以废除彩票。第二种观点将焦点从政治转移到经济,即彩票的爆炸式增长反映了自20世纪70年代以来美国经济的变化。因此,彩票从20世纪70年代为中产阶级提供稳定——正如一位彩票高管在1975年所说的那样,“我们在萧条的经济中出售希望”——到后来日益不平等的几十年里提供难以想象的财富(3)。越来越多的人意识到工人和家庭必须自己应对经济挑战(我称之为“巨大的风险转移”)鼓励人们越来越多地寻找通往向上流动的门票。科恩最后的信息是他最重要的:那些认为美国应该恢复其长期无彩票时代的人——科恩是其中之一——需要倾听那些购买所有彩票的美国人的声音。科恩的研究表明,彩票玩家更有可能是低收入、非白人、男性,而且没有大学学位。但他也把这些看似不合理的赌注放在一个更广泛的背景下,这个背景不仅包括痛苦的经济转变,还包括一个令人不安的事实,即国家机构正在鼓励弱势公民进行这些赌注。根据第一手资料,科恩要求我们思考为什么“每个星期都有数千万美国人……认为他们对新生活的最大希望在于抽签的运气”(207)。在这样做的过程中,他提出了一个令人信服的理由,即不仅对政策历史,而且对政策改革采取跨学科的方法。
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America’s Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794–1911 by Mark A. Noll 美国书:《圣经文明的兴衰,1794-1911》作者:马克·a·诺尔
4区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/jinh_r_01992
James Hudnut-Beumler
Noll knows a lot about the history of religion in America and frames the Bible as his protagonist in this engaging, complex, and telling account of how Protestant America became Bible-obsessed in the long nineteenth century. This massive sequel to his formidable In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492–1783 (2015) is interdisciplinary insofar as it combines the history of political rhetoric, pro- and anti-slavery arguments before the Civil War, women’s history, history of the book and publishing, African American history, and the impact of biblical criticism.Noll attends to religious movements, innovations, and organizations that embraced biblicism, but also fairly channels individuals like Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Maria Stewart, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who often were better interpreters from outside ecclesiastical precincts than the preachers who occupied the then-popular pulpits of the years from the Revolution to World War I.The net effect of Noll’s impressive synthesis of so many kinds of history is highly readable, employing thirty chapters to spotlight significant episodes, and sweeping when it comes to the topic of Protestantism. Since 1970, historians’ treatment of Protestantism in America has shifted from something passé (why study dead white people?) to a newly acknowledged monolithic force that accounts for everything old holding back an emerging diverse contemporary democratic society. Much like whiteness, therefore, Protestantism is now widely invoked but not historicized so much as summarized. Noll’s work corrects this lacuna.If his formal subject is the Bible, Noll’s greater story is how the social custodial Protestants (Congregationalists and Anglicans) lost out to the sectarian Protestants (Methodists and Baptists) who did not initially wish to run society, but only their own churches. The early national era saw most Americans becoming evangelical Bible consumers who believed that all answers could be found in the words of the scripture they fervently quoted. This worked, Noll argues, until slavery revealed that the Bible was used to support every conceivable moral position on the issue. Meanwhile, Catholics and Jews became increasingly vocal about the hegemonic use of the King James Version (kjv) in public schooling. After 1876, Americans produced a plethora of new versions of scripture to support their own religious ideas, evidencing both a diversity of faith and further fragmentation.Noll also tracks how religious consciousness shifted in the scripture passages clergy chose to memorialize American presidents upon their deaths. The shift he finds between the death of President Washington in 1799 and the assassination of President McKinley in 1901 is from biblical Hebraism, invoking the Old Testament, to a decidedly New Testament emphasis. The implication is that American Protestants went from thinking of America as God’s new Israel to comparing assassinated presidents mostly to Jesu
诺尔对美国的宗教史了解甚多,他以《圣经》为主角,引人入胜、复杂而生动地描述了新教美国在漫长的19世纪是如何变得痴迷于《圣经》的。这是他令人敬畏的《一开始就是话语:1492-1783年美国公共生活中的圣经》(2015)的续集,它是跨学科的,因为它结合了政治修辞的历史,内战前支持和反对奴隶制的争论,妇女的历史,书籍和出版的历史,非裔美国人的历史,以及圣经批评的影响。诺尔关注宗教运动、创新和信奉圣经的组织,但也相当地引导像亚伯拉罕·林肯、弗雷德里克·道格拉斯、玛丽亚·斯图尔特和伊丽莎白·卡迪·斯坦顿这样的人,他们通常是来自教会以外的更好的解释者,而不是从革命到第一次世界大战期间占据当时流行讲坛的传教士。诺尔对如此多的历史进行了令人印象深刻的综合,其结果是极具可读性。用了三十章来突出重要的事件,当涉及到新教的话题时,它是全面的。自1970年以来,历史学家对美国新教的看法已经从一种微不足道的东西(为什么要研究死去的白人?)转变为一种新被承认的单一力量,它解释了阻碍新兴的多元化当代民主社会的一切旧事物。因此,就像白人一样,新教现在被广泛引用,但没有被历史化,而是被总结了出来。诺尔的工作弥补了这一缺陷。如果他的正式主题是《圣经》,诺尔更伟大的故事是社会监护的新教徒(公理会派和英国国教派)如何输给宗教性的新教徒(卫理公会派和浸信会派),后者最初并不希望管理社会,而只想管理自己的教会。建国初期,大多数美国人成为福音派圣经消费者,他们相信所有的答案都可以在他们热切引用的圣经中找到。诺尔认为,这是有效的,直到奴隶制揭示出圣经被用来支持在这个问题上的每一个可以想象的道德立场。与此同时,天主教徒和犹太人越来越强烈地反对在公立学校中霸权地使用钦定本(kjv)。1876年后,美国人出版了大量新版本的圣经来支持他们自己的宗教思想,这既证明了信仰的多样性,也证明了信仰的进一步分裂。诺尔还追踪了神职人员在纪念美国总统去世时选择的经文中宗教意识的转变。他发现,在1799年华盛顿总统去世和1901年麦金利总统遇刺之间的转变,是从引用旧约的圣经希伯来语,到明确强调新约。言下之意是,在不到一个世纪的时间里,美国新教徒从把美国视为上帝的新以色列,转变为把遇刺的总统大多比作耶稣。到1911年,在英皇钦定本出版300周年之际,《圣经》仍然很受欢迎,被广泛引用,但英皇钦定本本身在政治和社会生活中已经不像内战前那么重要了。虽然耶稣会天主教期刊《美国》认为钦定本是错误地将天才只归于教会——钦定本的源头——,但前总统西奥多·罗斯福和未来的总统伍德罗·威尔逊都宣称钦定本是美国作为一个基督教国家的道德规范的源头。威廉·詹宁斯·布莱恩(William Jennings Bryan)提出了原教旨主义的立场,认为《圣经》不应被视为人类的作品,而应被视为神所启示的书。因此,圣经文明的观念在一些信徒中黯然失色,而在另一些信徒中却得到了强化,与此同时,美国未能实现圣经的理想,这对艾达·b·威尔斯(Ida B. Wells)和弗朗西斯·格里姆克(Francis Grimke)等非裔美国观察家来说是痛苦而明显的,他们敏锐地看到了像威尔逊这样的基督徒在实践圣经伦理方面的缺点。这本文献极其丰富的研究也值得称赞,因为它采用了跨学科的观点,将圣经同时视为来源、对象、产品、支柱、问题,而且仍然经常是美国人及其文化的灵感。
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The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions by Peter B. Villella and Pablo García Loaeza 《征服墨西哥:500年的重新发明》作者:彼得·b·维利亚和巴勃罗García Loaeza
4区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/jinh_r_01978
Ida Altman
According to a recent article in the New York Times entitled “Demoting the Conquest: How the Denver Art Museum Kicked Columbus Out the Door,” a Colorado art museum “obliterated all references to the canceled hero from its collections.”1 Regardless of how one views Columbus, the effort to “cancel” historical figures and events that have resonated for good and ill over the centuries is far from straightforward. In our continuing fascination with the conquest of Mexico, as with Columbus, the actual history can seem to take second place to the many interpretations that have colored our understandings of it.The conquest of Mexico usually is assumed to have been a singular, transformative episode in which the lands and peoples of what is now modern Mexico were brought definitively under Spanish rule. Scholars who have examined the events leading up to, resulting in, and following the fall of the Aztec (Mexica) capital of Tenochtitlan to the Spanish-Indigenous forces led by Hernando Cortés, however, paint a different picture of events. Over time, most have concluded that the ostensible conquest was far less definitive than generally thought, that Indigenous forces played a far greater role in the apparent Spanish victory over the Mexica than long assumed, and that the immediate impact of Cortés’ victory was limited to a relatively small area even within central Mexico, with large swaths of peoples and territories remaining outside the scope of Spanish domination, in some cases for years, decades, or even centuries.The chapters in this volume survey how the conquest of Mexico has been depicted, studied, understood, and portrayed in everything from history books to literature and opera. The editors write that the contributors consider the conquest of Mexico through an Atlantic lens, rather than an exclusively Mexican or even Spanish-American one. Thus, although chapters in the first part of the volume trace changing views and uses of the conquest in Mexico itself over time, contributors to the second part address such topics as the English response to the conquest, representations of the conquest in Enlightenment-era French and Italian opera, and the impact of William Prescott’s enormously influential mid-nineteenth century history of the conquest in the United States.Scholars and other readers with a solid command of Mexican history likely will not find a great deal that is new in the first part of the volume, although the interdisciplinary nature of the contributions, which range from Terraciano’s discussion of revisionist scholarship to Myers’ use of oral history to understand contemporary views of the conquest, should be noted. The second part, however, broadens considerably our understanding of the range of responses that the history of the conquest has evoked, in perhaps surprising ways.Altogether, this is a very readable and enjoyable volume—a useful reminder of the value of addressing historiography in conjunction with history. As Villella writes
根据《纽约时报》最近一篇题为《贬低征服:丹佛艺术博物馆如何将哥伦布赶出门外》的文章,科罗拉多州的一家艺术博物馆“从其藏品中删除了所有与这位被取消的英雄有关的内容”。不管一个人如何看待哥伦布,要“取消”几个世纪以来一直引起人们善恶共鸣的历史人物和事件,远非直截了当。在我们对征服墨西哥的持续迷恋中,就像对哥伦布一样,真实的历史似乎可以让位于我们对它的理解的许多解释。对墨西哥的征服通常被认为是一个独特的、变革性的事件,在这个事件中,现在墨西哥的土地和人民最终被置于西班牙的统治之下。然而,学者们研究了阿兹特克(墨西哥)首都特诺奇蒂特兰(Tenochtitlan)被埃尔南多·科特萨姆斯(Hernando cortsamas)领导的西班牙土著军队占领之前、导致和之后发生的事件,描绘了一幅不同的画面。随着时间的推移,大多数人得出的结论是,表面上的征服远不如通常认为的那样具有决定性,在西班牙对墨西哥的表面胜利中,土著力量发挥的作用比长期以来所认为的要大得多,而且科尔塔姆斯的胜利的直接影响仅限于墨西哥中部相对较小的地区,在西班牙统治范围之外还有大片的人民和领土,在某些情况下,几年,几十年,甚至几个世纪。在本卷的章节调查如何征服墨西哥已经被描绘,研究,理解,并描绘从历史书到文学和歌剧的一切。编辑们写道,撰稿人是从大西洋的视角来看待墨西哥的征服,而不是仅仅从墨西哥人或西班牙裔美国人的角度。因此,尽管卷的第一部分的章节记录了随着时间的推移,墨西哥本身对征服的看法和用途的变化,但第二部分的贡献者讨论了诸如英国对征服的反应,启蒙时代法国和意大利歌剧中征服的表现,以及威廉·普雷斯科特19世纪中期对美国征服历史的巨大影响。对墨西哥历史有扎实了解的学者和其他读者可能不会在本书的第一部分中发现很多新的内容,尽管应该注意到这些贡献的跨学科性质,从Terraciano对修正主义学术的讨论到Myers使用口述历史来理解征服的当代观点。然而,第二部分以令人惊讶的方式,极大地扩展了我们对征服历史所引发的一系列反应的理解。总而言之,这是一本非常可读和令人愉快的书,它有效地提醒了我们将史学与历史结合起来的价值。正如Villella在结论中所写的那样,“墨西哥内外的文化观察家和政治领袖反复重新解释1519-21年的事件,以反映和影响当代的价值观和关注点。”其结果就是他所说的“永恒的征服”,“历史永恒的当代性的一个令人心酸的例子”(295)。
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The Origin of Electoral Absenteeism in Early Italy: New Evidence to Explain North–South Diverging Trends 意大利早期选举缺勤的起源:解释南北分化趋势的新证据
4区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/jinh_a_01975
Giorgio Brosio, Roberto Zanola
Abstract Low turnout rates with high geographical disparities characterized Italian national elections in the first six decades after the country’s founding in 1861. Historians have largely overlooked these regional voting differences and their potential economic implications. A multiple-group interrupted time series analysis regression model demonstrates distinct electoral trends between the Center-North and the South, coinciding with electoral reforms in 1894 that affected electoral competition, particularly in the South. Furthermore, a random effect panel regression model reveals determinants of regional abstention rates, which indicate that different factors influenced abstention rates in the Center-North than in the South, emphasizing the relevance of political factors in the creation and widening of regional divergences in Italy.
在1861年意大利建国后的前60年里,意大利全国大选的特点是投票率低、地域差异大。历史学家在很大程度上忽视了这些地区投票差异及其潜在的经济影响。多组中断时间序列分析回归模型显示了中北部和南部之间明显的选举趋势,与1894年影响选举竞争的选举改革相吻合,特别是在南方。此外,随机效应面板回归模型揭示了区域弃权率的决定因素,表明影响中北部弃权率的因素不同于影响南部弃权率的因素,强调了政治因素与意大利区域差异产生和扩大的相关性。
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Reason and Experience in Renaissance Italy by Christine Shaw 《文艺复兴时期意大利的理性与经验》克里斯汀·肖著
IF 0.5 4区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1162/jinh_r_01883
John M. Najemy
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Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher 《邦联征兵和南方士兵的斗争》约翰·m·萨切尔著
IF 0.5 4区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1162/jinh_r_01888
P. Doyle
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