Founding Weimar: Violence and the German Revolution of 1918–1919
Founding Weimar: Violence and the German Revolution of 1918–1919
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魏玛的建立：暴力与 1918-1919 年的德国革命
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2017
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Moritz Föllmer
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作者：
Moritz Föllmer
写一本意义重大的历史书有两种方法。一是“走大”，在一个大的地理空间内，在一个大的时间跨度内，覆盖最广泛的历史现象。这种方法利用了大量杂乱无章的历史书目和精选的原始资料。其结果是一种包罗万象的解释，有助于理解混乱的历史问题。另一种撰写史学重大贡献的方法意味着深入研究细节：将显微镜应用于发生在有限时空中的几个重要历史事件上；收集并仔细分析大量经验材料，使研究人员能够对这些事件进行细致入微的描述。这种方法有能力改变我们对历史的理解，就像它可以揭示推动历史事件朝着特定方向发展的以前未被察觉的因素一样。马克·琼斯的书是这种第二种历史写作模式的明显例子，有理由相信，它将被视为历史学家解释第一次世界大战后欧洲大陆革命进程和政治暴力的一个转折点。
There are two approaches to writing a significant history book. One is ‘going big’ and covering the broadest range of historical phenomena within a large geographical space during a wide time span. This approach makes use of vast and variegated historical bibliographies and well-selected primary sources. The result is an all-encompassing interpretation that helps to make sense of the chaotic matter of history. The other approach to writing a major contribution to historiography implies delving into the details instead: applying a microscope onto a few important historical events that took place in circumscribed time-spaces; gathering and closely analysing a great amount of empirical material that allows the researcher to provide a nuanced description of such events. This method has the ability to transform our understanding of history just as it can uncover previously unperceived factors that contributed to pushing historical events towards a specific direction. Mark Jones’ book is a clear example of this second model of history writing, and there are reasons to believe that it will be regarded as a turning point in the way in which historians explain post-First World War revolutionary processes and political violence in the European continent.