广西运河史研究述评

广西的运河以其历史悠久、内涵丰富而著称,对广西运河的研究历来受到学术界的重视。位于广西境内的灵渠和临桂县的桂柳运河为南方水利史上的佳话;位于防城县江山半岛的潭蓬运河成为安南交通的捷径。     

灵渠北渠创建问题辨析——兼与伍镇基先生商榷

灵渠是世界上现存最古老的人工运河,主要由铧嘴、大小天平坝和南北二渠、秦堤、陡门等组成。也许开凿之初没有现在这样完善,但是,史实表明灵渠北渠是秦代史禄所创建应该确信无疑。伍镇基先生所提出的灵渠北渠不是秦史禄所修,而是东汉马援创建的观点,无论从证据还是从逻辑上讲,都是无法成立的。     

试析我国能源运输战略

马六甲海峡是世界上最危险和最重要的战略要冲之一。专家们认为,它是世界上最容易受到攻击的10大目标之一。控制马六甲海峡是目前美国的主要战略目标,即使可能导致它与该地区的国家甚至和中国发生武装冲突也在所不惜。如果泰国的克拉运河计划最终能够得以实现,一定会给该地区的自由贸易和海运事业带来共同利益。但对中国来说, 必须把缅甸通道和克拉运河区别开来。     

Ownership of a cultural landmark: The case of Gotha Canal

Gotha Canal is perhaps the most gigantic construction work ever undertaken in Sweden. It is a seaway through Sweden that connects the Baltic Sea with the Atlantic Ocean. It is nowadays considered to be one of the most famous cultural landmarks in Sweden from the time it opened for traffic the canal was in 1832 until 1978 the canal was privately owned. Since then, it has been owned by the state. Such a long time of private ownership of transportation link is remarkable. This paper analyses why the change from private to state ownership finally took place and also looks at the implication of this ownership change for profit maximising behaviour and maintenance of the canal. A discussion of how ownership of a cultural landmark like Gotha Canal can be structured is also provided.     

British Understandings of the Sanussiyya Sufi Order’s Jihad against Egypt, 1915–17

Abstract

This article considers the Sanussiyya Sufi order’s 1915–16 jihad on Egypt from a fresh perspective, analysing British understandings about the attack that soldiers and officials fashioned as the conflict progressed. By incorporating aspects of imperial and Islamic history and a focus on British perceptions, the article presents new directions in the study of the war in the Middle East that move beyond the concerns of older military histories. It analyses three key areas of British thinking in relation to this jihad. First, the belief that local fighters joined the campaign as a result of economic factors, chiefly the famine that swept the Western Desert from November 1915 as a result of an Anglo-Italian blockade, and that the order had little support from the local population owing to their policy of requisitioning goods. Second, the important set of perceptions that the Sanussiyya were pressured by the Ottomans to attack the British as part of their overall call for jihad against the Allied powers. Third, the divided nature of British views around the broader threat posed by the order to Egypt and the wider war effort. Finally, it examines the broader religious and ideological context of the Sanussiyya as an organised reformist Sufi order, engaged in a struggle for resistance to and survival against European imperialism—a struggle that collided with the changed strategic landscape of a region rent by conflict between the Ottoman and British empires from November 1914.     

山东运河文化旅游开发现状分析及对策

京杭大运河南北纵贯山东省西部地区 ,沿途有大量人文和自然旅游资源分布 ,但是运河沿线地区是山东省旅游业发展相对落后的区域 ,优越的旅游资源尚未得到很好的开发和利用。发展山东运河文化旅游应开辟专门的旅游交通线路 ,开发急需的“品牌商品” ,建立统揽山东运河文化旅游的管理机构 ,并解决资金短缺问题     

试析古桂柳运河旅游开发

古桂柳运河修筑于唐朝长寿元年,作为古代贯通漓江和柳江的唯一通道,缩短了桂州至柳州的水路300多公里,在开拓岭南、加强封建王朝统治的过程中起到了重要的作用。运河拥有深厚的历史文化意义和独具特色的湿地生态环境,已作为桂林市政府2007年的工作重点,运河旅游的开发将弥补大桂林旅游圈的一大空白,成为桂林新的旅游经济增长点。