How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complex By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rur...(展开全部)

Communism was one of the most powerful political and intellectual movements the world has ever seen. At the height of their influence, Communists controlled more than a third of the earth’s surface. But perhaps more astonishing than its rapid rise and extraordinary reach was Communism’s sudden, devastating collapse in November of 1989. In The Red Flag , Oxford professor David ...(展开全部)

托马斯•索威尔（Thomas Swowell） 《被掩盖的经济真相》一本作者。托马斯•索威尔曾在康奈尔大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校、阿默斯特学院及其他学术机构讲授经济学课程，他所写的《基础经济学》一书被译成6种语言。他还广泛著书立说讨论其他社会问题。索威尔博士曾在政府部门、私有产业和独立的研究机构中担任经济学家。他获得的荣誉包括全美人文学科奖牌、布莱德雷基金奖以及各种学术机构颁发给他的荣誉学位。

A distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups--the Irish, the Germans, the Jews, the Italians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Blacks, the Puerto Ricans, and the Mexicans--in order to explain their varied experiences in adapting to American society.

This best-selling text for introductory Latin American history courses, A History of Latin America, encompasses political and diplomatic theory, class structure and economic organization, culture and religion, and the environment. The integrating framework is the dependency theory, the most popular interpretation of Latin American history, which stresses the economic relationsh...(展开全部)

理查德•罗斯坦（Richard Rothstein） 美国历史学家、学者，美国经济政策研究所副研究员、全美有色人种协进会法律辩护基金会瑟古德•马歇尔研究所名誉高级研究员、加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校法学院哈斯研究所高级研究员。曾于1999—2002年间担任《纽约时报》国民教育专栏作家。 罗斯坦的学术研究重点是美国住房政策和教育领域的种族隔离史，曾广泛发表以种族平等和教育为主题的演讲。已出版《我们曾走之路：美国学生成绩的假与真》《阶级与学校：以社会、经济和教育改革缩小“黑”“白”学生之成绩差距》《评分制教育：取得问责权》等多部著作，最新力作《法律的颜色：一段被遗忘的美国政府种族隔离史》于2017年入围美国国家图书奖非虚构类长名单。

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation―that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of La...(展开全部)

216 pages | 3 halftones, 1 figure | 6 x 9 | © 2002 In this long-awaited book, David M. Halperin revisits and refines the argument he put forward in his classic One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: that hetero- and homosexuality are not biologically constituted but are, instead, historically and culturally produced. How to Do the History of Homosexuality expands on this view, upd...(展开全部)

Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety and accompanied by diseases which would ravage the native populations. It explores the tensions in...(展开全部)