An argument that America's economy needs a strong and innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates. “There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.”—Bill Gates In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary ...(展开全部)

瓦科拉夫•斯米尔（Vaclav Smil），马尼托巴大学终身名誉教授，曾在2010年被《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）杂志评选为“全球百位思想家”。他研究的领域涉猎广泛，并作跨学科研究，包括能源、环境、食品、人口、经济、历史和公共政策等。他还将这些方法应用到研究中国的能源、食品和环境问题上。 瓦科拉夫•斯米尔曾在能源、环境、粮食和技术发展史等领域出版了30多本专著，其中包括MIT出版社出版的《全球化的原动机：柴油机和蒸汽涡轮机的历史和影响》（Prime Movers of Globalization：The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines）和《生物圈的丰收：我们从自然界拿走了什么》（Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Ta...(展开全部)

The Bulldozer in the Countryside is the first scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of suburban development in the United States. The book offers a new account of two of the most important historical events in the period since World War II--the mass migration to the suburbs and the rise of the environmental movement. This work offers a valuable historic...(展开全部)

The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread of tract-house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land, and a variety of Americans began to protest against the environmental costs of suburban development. By the mid-1960s, indeed, many of the critics were attempting to institutionalize an urban land ethic. T...(展开全部)

尼尔•弗格森，英国最著名的历史学家之一。哈佛大学历史系劳伦斯•A•蒂施教授、牛津大学耶稣学院高级研究员，同时也是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的高级研究员。他是极少数能横跨学术界、金融界和媒体的专家之一。著有畅销书《帝国》、《虚拟的历史》、《顶级金融家》、《纸与铁》、《金钱交易》、《战争的悲悯》、《巨人》、《货币崛起》、《罗斯柴尔德家族》，同时还为多家报纸和杂志撰稿。此外，他还为第四频道撰写并制作了五部非常成功的电视纪录片：《帝国》、《美国巨人》、《世界战争》、《货币崛起》和《文明》。2004年被《时代》周刊评为“影响世界的100人”之一。

Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is the greatest military and economic colossus of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, with its founding fathers battling westwards for territory and their successors spreading freedom across the world - at gun...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson ranges across the entire history of Americas foreign entanglements and delves into all the dimensions of American powermilitary, economic, cultural, and political. The result is a book whose conclusions are as convincing, and troubling, as they are original. Ferguson demonstrates that America has always been an empire in denial and show...(展开全部)

Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's onl...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德•W.麦考伊（Alfred W. McCoy），美国知名历史学家。生于1945年，1977年毕业于耶鲁大学，获历史学博士学位。现为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校历史学教授。2012年，耶鲁大学和耶鲁大学研究生院校友会联合授予麦考伊教授“威尔伯•克劳斯勋章”（Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal），表彰他“是研究东南亚历史的世界顶级历史学家，是研究菲律宾政治史、金三角毒品非法交易、地下犯罪集团和国际政治监控的专家”。著有《东南亚的海洛因政治》（The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, 1972）、《对刑讯的质疑：中情局从冷战到反恐战争以来的审讯》（A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on T...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德•W.麦考伊（Alfred W. McCoy），美国知名历史学家。生于1945年，1977年毕业于耶鲁大学，获历史学博士学位。现为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校历史学教授。2012年，耶鲁大学和耶鲁大学研究生院校友会联合授予麦考伊教授“威尔伯•克劳斯勋章”（Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal），表彰他“是研究东南亚历史的世界顶级历史学家，是研究菲律宾政治史、金三角毒品非法交易、地下犯罪集团和国际政治监控的专家”。著有《东南亚的海洛因政治》（The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, 1972）、《对刑讯的质疑：中情局从冷战到反恐战争以来的审讯》（A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on T...(展开全部)