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)

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. This book tells the remarkable story of the violent conflict over who would reap the benefits of this new industry an...(展开全部)

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)

America is a nation making itself up as it goes along—a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred origi...(展开全部)

Central America is a tiny region, broken into seven even smaller nations. More than 5 million North Americans visit these countries every year, exploring Mayan ruins in Guatemala and Belize, discovering the rain forests of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, snorkeling in Honduras, and cruising through the Panama Canal. Written for a general audience, A Brief History of Central America f...(展开全部)

托马斯·克伦普（Thomas Crump），荷兰学者，曾在阿姆斯特丹大学人类学系任教，在四十多年的学术生涯中，出版过多部著作，包括《科学简史》和《蒸汽时代简史》，他的写作范围涉及历史、科学和医学领域。

The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology - how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histories, telephone industry correspondence, and statistical data, Fischer's work is a...(展开全部)

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.

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.