I didn't write this book. I stole it... A Parisian bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript containing three stories, each as unlikely as the other. The first, 'The Education of a Monster', is a letter penned by the poet Charles Baudelaire to an illiterate girl. The second, 'City of Ghosts', is a noir romance set in Paris in 1940 as the Germans are invading. The third, 'Tales of...(展开全部)

Simon Schama's extraordinary novel in a new stage adaptation by Caryl Philips. As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British Naval Officer embark on an epic journey in search of freedom. Divided by barriers of race but united in their ambitions for equality, their convictions will change attitudes towards slavery forever. Sweeping from...(展开全部)

Simon Schama's extraordinary novel in a new stage adaptation by Caryl Philips. As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British Naval Officer embark on an epic journey in search of freedom. Divided by barriers of race but united in their ambitions for equality, their convictions will change attitudes towards slavery forever. Sweeping from...(展开全部)

丹尼尔•T. 罗杰斯 普林斯顿大学历史系教授，讲授美国文化和思想史、比较和跨国界视野中的美国历史等。《大西洋的跨越：进步时代的社会政治》（1998）曾获美国历史协会的比尔（Beer）奖、美国历史学家组织的霍利（Hawley）奖。他的著作还包括《1850—1920年美国工业时代的职业道德》（1978）、《受到挑战的真理：独立以来的美国政治关键词》（1987）、《破裂的时代》（2011）。

"The most belated of nations", Theodore Roosevelt called his country during the workmen's compensation fight in 1907. Earlier reformers, progressives of his day, and later New Dealers lamented the nation's resistance to models abroad for correctives to the backwardness of American social politics. This text is an account of the vibrant international network that they constructe...(展开全部)

西蒙·沙玛（Simon Schama），英国作家、历史学家，曾先后任教于剑桥大学、牛津大学和哈佛大学，现为哥伦比亚大学历史及艺术史教授，在艺术史、荷兰史和法国史方面尤有建树。著有《爱国者和解放者》《风景与记忆》《伦勃朗的眼睛》《犹太人的故事》等，作品曾荣获沃尔夫森奖、W. H. 史密斯文学奖和美国国家书评人协会奖。沙玛还在BBC电视系列纪录片《英国史》《艺术的力量》《文明》中担任撰稿人和主持。

Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, who would you want to win? Tens of thousands gave their answer, voting with their feet for Britain and King George. In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated...(展开全部)

西蒙·沙玛（Simon Schama），英国作家、历史学家，曾先后任教于剑桥大学、牛津大学和哈佛大学，现为哥伦比亚大学历史及艺术史教授，在艺术史、荷兰史和法国史方面尤有建树。著有《爱国者和解放者》《风景与记忆》《伦勃朗的眼睛》《犹太人的故事》等，作品曾荣获沃尔夫森奖、W. H. 史密斯文学奖和美国国家书评人协会奖。沙玛还在BBC电视系列纪录片《英国史》《艺术的力量》《文明》中担任撰稿人和主持。

Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, who would you want to win? Tens of thousands gave their answer, voting with their feet for Britain and King George. In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated...(展开全部)

The United States–Mexico border is neither the United States nor Mexico; it is rather a "third country," ten miles wide and two thousand miles long, that lies in between. This borderland, split by the Rio Grande and the border fence, is a place of transience and crossings—of people and goods as well as of ideas and beliefs. Noted photo-journalist Alex Webb has spent decades cov...(展开全部)