Contents

Articles

The Limited Abortion Freedom of Ancient Roman Women:From the Perspective of a Rescript of Septimius Severus/Ni Tengda

Kingship and Counsellorship in the Works of William of Malmesbury /Liu Ming

The Yellow Fever Pandemic and the Establishment of a Transatlantic Knowledge Network for Epidemic Prevention in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries/Zhao Hang

Conferenecs

A Review of 2023 Annual Conference of China Research Association of History of Soviet Union and Eastern Europe/Kang Le and Guo Chunsheng

A Review of 2023 Annual Conference of China Latin American History Association/Yuan Miaomiao

A Review of the Academic Conference on Historical Studies of Women and Gender from the Perspective of Worldwide Changes /Lu Diqiu

Book Reviews

Qian Chengdan, A New History of the World: An Outline /Qin Shuangyan and Zhang Jin

Meng Qinglong etc., The China-India Boundary Issues as Viewed from a World History Perspective /Sun Yinbing

Ma Keyao, Han Dynasty and Rome: A Comparison of War and Strategy/Ba Xiaojin

Chen Rihua, Qiu Di, Homeland in Writing: A Study on Modern British Chorography/Qiao Zixin

Zhang Chi, Revaluation of Politics: Understand the History of 18th-Century France/Li Ciyi

Wang He, On the Relationship of the Roman Army and the Romanization/Wang Yang 

Du Hua, The Rise of Antislavery Politics in the Antebellum United States/Xu Xiangyun

Contents

Articles

The Formation of U.S. Policy to Establish Military Bases in the Philippines in the Early Postwar Period and Its Implications/Jiang Xingshan and Zhang Cunwen

Immigrants, Citizenship and Social Integration in French Urban Society in the Late Middle Ages: A Case Study of Avignon/Lv Zhao

ἱερὰ καὶ ὅσια: The Polis Life in the Parthenon Inventories of 5th Century BC/Zhang Duoduo

Pathfi nders

Mao Zhaoxi and the Research of Prehistoric World History/Gong Yingyan

Tang Chongnan’s Research of Japanese History/Zhang Yuebin

Conferences

A Review of the 2022 Annual Conference of Chinese Research Association of World Ancient and Medieval History/Ji Yun and Han Yaoxin

A Review of the Inaugural Conference of the Asia Civilization Research Center/Liu Xiaochen and Zhang Yiwen

Book Reviews

Gong Yushu, The Epic of Gilgamesh /Chen Fei

Dong Ziyun, The Dimensions of Truth: The French National Legal Culture in the Making (1200-1500) /Shen Jian

Yang Chao, The Impossible American Dream of Equality: “Affi rmative Action”and the African American Employment, 1965-2000 /Lyu Hongyan

An Ping, Political Mobilization of the Modern Japanese Press (1868-1945) /Xie Shutian

Liang Lijia, Fur and Empire: A Study of the Russian-American Company’s Colonial Activities in the North Pacifi c, 1799-1825 /Wu Wanku