With the publication of "Liberty Tree", acclaimed historian Alfred F. Young presents a selection of his seminal writing as well as two provocative, never-before-published essays. Together, they take the reader on a journey through the American Revolution, exploring the role played by ordinary women and men (called, at the time, "people out of doors") in shaping events during an...(展开全部)

With the publication of "Liberty Tree", acclaimed historian Alfred F. Young presents a selection of his seminal writing as well as two provocative, never-before-published essays. Together, they take the reader on a journey through the American Revolution, exploring the role played by ordinary women and men (called, at the time, "people out of doors") in shaping events during an...(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.

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.

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)

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)

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）。

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)