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)

If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms, plantations, and cities to try to reach the British camp. A military strategy originally designed...(展开全部)

Simon Schama's extraordinary novel in a new stage adaptation by Caryl Philips. As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British Naval Officer embark on an epic journey in search of freedom. Divided by barriers of race but united in their ambitions for equality, their convictions will change attitudes towards slavery forever. Sweeping from...(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.

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)

“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years.” -Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciou...(展开全部)

"An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years." -Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousne...(展开全部)

Why did Western countries become so much wealthier than the rest of the world? And what explains the huge rise in incomes during the Industrial Revolution - and why did Britain lead the way? In the years between the Glorious Revolution and the Great Exhibition, the British economy was transformed. Joel Mokyr's landmark history offers a wholly new perspective for understanding B...(展开全部)