*Now with a new afterword containing never-before-seen research on the identity of the spy ring’s most secret member, Agent 355 “This is my kind of history book. Get ready. Here’s the action.” —BRAD MELTZER, bestselling author of The Fifth Assassin and host of Decoded When George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolu...(展开全部)

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

纳撒尼尔•菲尔布里克（Nathaniel Philbrick）是美国著名历史作家，1956年生于费城，在美国近代史与北美航海史领域著有多部非虚构作品，曾凭《海洋深处》（In the Heart of the Sea）一书荣获2000年美国国家图书奖，出版于2006年的作品《五月花号》（Mayflower）入围当年普利策奖决选名单。他还著有《海洋荣耀》（Sea of Glory）、《背水一战》（The Last Stand）、《邦克山》（Bunker Hill），以及《为何阅读莫比-迪克？》（Why Read Moby-Dick？）等作品。 译者简介 王兢，北京大学历史系硕士，中英译者，翻译兴趣集中于人文艺术和社科史地。译有《文件中的历史》《地图中的历史》等。

A surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution, and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental Army under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle) evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the British Army. Three weeks later, near the Canadi...(展开全部)

“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years.” -Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciou...(展开全部)

"An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years." -Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousne...(展开全部)

In this 25th anniversary edition, Bailyn has added a substantial essay, "Fulfillment", as a Postscript to the original text. In it he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This study of the p...(展开全部)

经济杀手，是指那些拿着高薪的顶尖专业人士，他们从世界各国攫取了数以千亿计的金钱。这些钱，通过世界银行，美国国际开发署以及其他国外的援助机构，装入到美国各大集团公司的金库和少数控制全球自然资源的显赫家族的口袋中。经济杀手用尽各种高明手段：伪造财政报告、操纵选举、贿赂、敲诈，色诱乃至谋杀。他们玩的是美国“帝国霸权”时代一开始就有的“老把戏”，在经济全球化的时代，其规模空前庞大，令人恐怖。 我清楚这一切！因为我曾经就是一名经济杀手！ ——约翰•珀金斯

埃里克·纳尔逊（Eric Nelson）哈佛大学政府学院罗伯特·M.贝伦讲席教授。研究领域集中于欧美现代早期政治思想史及其在当代政治理论中的应用，代表作有《希伯来共和国：欧洲政治思想的转变及其犹太根源》（The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, 2010）；《共和思想中的希腊传统》（The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought, 2004）。

Generations of students have been taught that the American Revolution was a revolt against royal tyranny. In this revisionist account, Eric Nelson argues that a great many of our "founding fathers" saw themselves as rebels against the British Parliament, not the Crown. The Royalist Revolution interprets the patriot campaign of the 1770s as an insurrection in favor of royal powe...(展开全部)