《外国历史大事集》现代部分第一分册已出版面世。该书是中国社会科学院世界历史研究所组稿编辑的十卷本《外国历史大事集》系列著作的第七册,又是现代部分四个分册中的首册。《外国历史大事集》现代部分第一分册(以上简称大事集)可贵之处,我以为主要在两个方面,一是其内容和知识的容量大,二是反映了一些新的学术见解, The first volume of the modern part of Foreign Historical Events has been published. This book is the seventh volume of a series of ten volumes of this “Foreign Historical Events Collection” compiled and edited by the World History Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the first of four volumes in the modern part. The valuable part of the first part of the “Modern History of Foreign Affairs” (referred to as the “Major Events” above) is mainly based on two aspects. First, its content and knowledge are of large capacity. Second, it reflects some new academic insights,