Contents

Articles 

The Athenian Revolution Revisited /Huang Yang (1)

A Study of Biographical Inscription of Methen /Guo Dantong (12)

Patrons, Priests, and People: The Parish in Late Medieval England /Robert Swanson (24)

The Degradation of the Public Virtue and the American Transformation to a Modern Commercial and Industrial Society /Wang Xiaode (44)

Pathfinder 

Yang Shengmao and the Development of World History Studies in China /Li Jianming (67)

Christopher Bayly as a Pioneer of Global History /Richard Drayton (85)

Review Article 

Byzantine Studies in China /Chen Zhiqiang (89)

Book Reviews 

Liu Debin, ed., Studies on the Theory of the English School and the History of International Relations /Ren Dongbo (103)

Liang Zhiming, Li Mou, Yang Baoyun, eds., A History of Ancient Southeast Asia: From Prehistoric Times to Early 16th Century AD /Huang Yunjing and Zhang Shenghua (107)

Han Qi, ed., The Process of Modernization in the World: Latin America /Dong Jingsheng (110)

Yang Dongliang, ed., Japan’s Views of China in Modern Times /Tang Chongnan and Zheng Yi (112)

Sun Xiaomeng, Language and Power: The Application of Hausa in Northern Nigeria during the British Colonial Administration /Li Wengang (114)

Wang Haili, The History of Egypt /Han Jianwei (116)

Hou Jianxin, New Perspectives on the Origin of Capitalism in Europe /Liu Jinghua (118)

Contents

Articles 

The State of the Common Man as Reflected in the Pamphlets of the German Peasants’ War /Zhu Xiaoyuan (1)

On the Authorship of an 18th Century French Writing: Montesquieu or Fréret /Xu Minglong (22)

Contact between China and Africa before Vasco da Gama: Archeology, Document and Historiography /Li Anshan (34)

From the Punjab to the Bund: Sikh Policemen in Motion /Cao Yin (60)

Pathfinder 

Lin Zhichun’s Contributions to the Study of Ancient World History in China /Yan Shaoxiang (85)

Review Article 

Parallels and Connections: Consumption, Environment, and State Formation at Both Ends of Eurasia, 1500-1900 /Wang Wensheng (100)

Book Reviews 

Zhang Qianhong, The History of Israel /Ma Danjing (121)

Che Xiaomei, A Study of Globalization and Urban Development in the Middle East /Zhao Wenliang (123)