When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an "empire for liberty" populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerce...(展开全部)

The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth–nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central A...(展开全部)

The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth–nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central A...(展开全部)

From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 格雷格•格兰丁，纽约大学的历史学教授，美国艺术与科学学院院士。他曾荣获古根海姆基金会的研究奖金、纽约公共图书馆卡尔曼中心的研究奖金并担任该中心吉尔德•莱尔曼美国历史研究员。他曾就职于联合国的真相调查委员会，调查过危地马拉内战，并为《洛杉矶时报》《国家杂志》《伦敦书评》《新政治家》《纽约时报》撰写过文章。作品《福特王国》（Fordlandia）曾入围普利策奖、国家图书奖、全美书评人协会奖、英国的詹姆斯•泰特•布莱克奖。另有《帝国工场》（Empire’s Workshop）和《最后的殖民地屠杀》(The Blood of Guatemala)。 · 【译者简介】 陈晓霜，自由译者，北京外国语大学英语语言文学硕士，译作包括《水手比利•巴德：梅尔维尔中短篇小说精选》、《创水记：以色列的治水之道》等。叶宪允，华东师范大学图书馆古籍部副研究员，华东...(展开全部)

Occupying much of imperial China's Yangzi River heartland and costing over twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions was the Taiping faith of the rebels. Inspired by a Protestant missionary tract, the core of the Taiping faith focused on the belief that Shangdi, ...(展开全部)

From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, sh...(展开全部)

Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu's seasonal patterns of freezing, thawing, and flooding shaped colonial efforts to control who and what could cross the border. Joseph Seeley shows how the unpredictable mo...(展开全部)

托马斯·克莱顿·沃尔夫(1900—1938)出生于北卡罗来纳州一个石匠家庭。自幼酷爱阅读与幻想，二十岁毕业于北卡罗来纳州立大学，进入哈佛研究院学习戏剧，获英国文学硕士学位，并在纽约大学任教。一丸二九年，他凭自传体小说《天使，望故乡》蜚声文坛，被认为是最有前途的美国小．说家。一九三五年《时间与河流》出版，成为畅销书。仅三年后，沃尔夫便因病去世。他的大量遗藕经编辑出版，成为另两部长篇小说《蛛网与磐石》和《你不能再回家》，短篇小说集《从死亡到早晨》，以及一部未完成的杂集《远山》。沃尔夫的自传体小说围绕作者的生平经历与感受形成了一个整体。从出生开始写起，一直到主人公以成名作家的身份重回故乡为止，重现了作者本人充溅孤独、幻想、思索与渴望的一生。