Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers alike, New York City is widely perceived as the publishing capital of the United States and the world. This book traces the origins and early evolution of the city’s rise to literary pree...(展开全部)

Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers alike, New York City is widely perceived as the publishing capital of the United States and the world. This book traces the origins and early evolution of the city’s rise to literary pree...(展开全部)

In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland — pirated the works of prominent (and often banned) French writers and distributed them in France, where laws governing piracy were in flux and any notion of "copyright" very much in its...(展开全部)

作者简介： 斯坦利·埃尔金斯（Stanley Elkins，1925—2013） 美国著名历史学家、教育学家，曾任美国史密斯学院的历史学教授，研究领域为奴隶制、美国早期历史等。他的《奴隶制：美国制度与智识生活中的一个问题》（Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life）被视为美国奴隶制研究领域的开创性著作。《1788—1800年的美利坚共和国》由埃尔金斯与埃里克·迈特里克历经近30年的研究合著而成，该书于1994年荣获班克罗夫特奖（Bancroft Prize），1995年荣获辛辛那提协会（Society of the Cincinnati）颁发的考克斯图书奖（Cox Book Prize）。 埃里克·迈特里克（Eric McKitrick，1919—2002） ...(展开全部)

When Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, America had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by some of the towering figures of our history and by the challenge of having to do everything for the first time. Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Adams, and Jefferson himself each had a share in shaping that remarkable era--an era tha...(展开全部)

In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in—or spent time—in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captur...(展开全部)

Examines the various features of Chinese trade across southeast Asia and as far west as Indian and Ceylon from about 211 BC to the founding of the Sung dynasty in 960 AD. Looks especially at the economic background and the Chinese imperial and regional attitudes toward it, and at political struggles between Chinese and other people and among themselves. First published as the J...(展开全部)

The early history of the maritime trade of China had been largely studied (at the time of this 1954 study) from the Western point of view, that is, as the eastern terminal point of a trade carried and dominated by Indians, Persians and Arabs. This had also been true of the early history of Southeast Asia. Historians, both of China and of Southeast Asia, had seen the trade mainl...(展开全部)