The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources—and a history of productivity and wealth—in recent decades the region has fallen further and further behind developed nations, surpassed even by other developing economies in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. In Left Behind , Sebastian Ed...(展开全部)

著者简介 罗伯特·伍斯诺（Robert Wuthnow），普林斯顿大学社会学系主任，曾任宗教科学研究学会和东方社会学学会会长，是美国文理科学院院士和美国哲学学会院士；曾获美国出版商协会专业和学术卓越奖；主要研究美国文化和社区、公民社会，尤其聚焦研究美国小城镇和农村地区的社会变革；在方法论上，一直支持将调查和深入定性访谈相结合的方法；曾出版《重塑核心地带: 20世纪50年代以来的美国中部》、《小镇美国》、《留守者: 美国乡村的衰落与愤怒》等。 译者简介 卢屹，杜伦大学翻译研究专业文学硕士，译有《漫长的旅行》（[英] 玛丽·沃斯通克里夫特著）等。

著者简介 罗伯特·伍斯诺（Robert Wuthnow），普林斯顿大学社会学系主任，曾任宗教科学研究学会和东方社会学学会会长，是美国文理科学院院士和美国哲学学会院士；曾获美国出版商协会专业和学术卓越奖；主要研究美国文化和社区、公民社会，尤其聚焦研究美国小城镇和农村地区的社会变革；在方法论上，一直支持将调查和深入定性访谈相结合的方法；曾出版《重塑核心地带: 20世纪50年代以来的美国中部》、《小镇美国》、《留守者: 美国乡村的衰落与愤怒》等。 译者简介 卢屹，杜伦大学翻译研究专业文学硕士，译有《漫长的旅行》（[英] 玛丽·沃斯通克里夫特著）等。

What is fueling rural America’s outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America’s small towns, farms, and rural communities to paint a rich por...(展开全部)

What is fueling rural America’s outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America’s small towns, farms, and rural communities to paint a rich por...(展开全部)

A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. . . . A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. . . . A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder. . . . Before she can call for backup, though, she fin...(展开全部)

尚塔爾．墨菲（Chantal Mouffe） 西敏大學民主政治研究中心的政治理論教授。著作包括《競勝》（Agonistics）、《政治性回歸》（The Return of the Political）、《文化統識和社會主義的戰略：邁向基進民主政治》（Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics，與厄尼斯特．拉克勞［Ernesto Laclau］合著）、《基進民主的幾個面向》（The Dimensions of Radical Democracy）、《民主悖論與施米特的挑戰》（The Democratic Paradox and the Challenge of Carl Schmitt）。

弗朗西斯·福山（FrancisFukuyama），日裔美籍学者，哈佛大学政治学博士，现任美国斯坦福大学弗里曼·斯伯格里国际问题研究所奥利弗·诺梅里尼高级研究员，此前曾任教于约翰·霍普金斯大学尼兹高等国际研究院、乔治·梅森大学公共政策学院，曾任美国国务院政策企划局副局长、兰德公司研究员。著有《历史的终结与最后的人》、《信任》、《十字路口上的美国》、《政治秩序的起源》等。现居加利福尼亚。

In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied schol...(展开全部)

Wiarda's scope, to say the least, is wide: he covers a broad range of Iberian and Latin American history in a rather compact text, swiftly and with a surprising and impressive amount of detail. It is a puzzle and a paradox, then, that he can at once provide many specifics concerning, say, Jos‚ Enrique Rod¢, the early 20th century Uruguayan writer, while at the same time insisti...(展开全部)