The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. it is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In CADILLAC DESERT Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless t...(展开全部)

Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological disaster. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological disaster. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side." In his own imaginative way, Thoreau was imitating the countless young pioneers, prospector...(展开全部)

When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side." In his own imaginative way, Thoreau was imitating the countless young pioneers, prospector...(展开全部)

唐纳德·沃斯特（1941— ），环境史学的创始人与领军人物之一，美国堪萨斯大学霍尔荣誉教授（荣休），中国人民大学海外高层次文教专家，美国人文与科学学院院士。沃斯特曾担任美国环境史学会主席和美国西部史学会主席，曾获美国历史学会终生成就奖、美国环境史学会终身成就奖、美国西部史学会终身成就奖、保护生态协会杰出贡献奖。主要著作包括：《自然的经济体系：生态思想史》、《尘暴：1930年代的美国南部大平原》、《帝国之河：水、干旱与美国西部的成长》、《自然的财富》、《在西部的天空下》、《地球的终点》、《向西奔腾的河流：约翰·卫斯理·鲍威尔的一生》、《热爱自然：约翰·缪尔的一生》、《萎缩的地球：亚美利加自然丰裕的兴衰》。其著作获奖无数，包括美国历史学最高奖班克罗夫特奖、苏格兰文学最高奖、英语语言联盟最佳传记奖，并多次获普利策奖提名。

The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbo...(展开全部)

本书分为两部分，上篇“帝业”概述美国建国至今对外政策及中美关系演变历史，下篇“谋士”评析十多位美国著名外交战略家及其著作与思想。 上篇“帝业”所考察的范围与前人的多数论著有着三大差异：首先是年代跨度的问题。存在着大量关于美国外交政策的高质量研究，但这些研究通常被分隔成了彼此相距甚 远的历史写作，主要包括：对19世纪美国本土及海外扩张的研究；对冷战期间美国对抗苏联行为的分析；对20世纪最后十年以来美国权力投射的讨论。相较之下，本书试图以融会贯通的方式来理解美国从墨西哥战争到反恐战争的战略与外交机制。第二项差异在于地理上的关注点。对美帝国权力运用的报道所关注的通常要么是其在由前殖民地岛屿构成的第三世界采取的行动，要么是其对前共产主义国家构成的第二世界进行的战斗。总体来看，对于华盛顿在发达资本主义这一第一世界所追求的目标关注较少。本书试图同时关注美国在这三...(展开全部)