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)

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)

"Science and Empire in the Atlantic World" is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, 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)

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)

Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management strategies that still visibly shape our ...(展开全部)

Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management strategies that still visibly shape our ...(展开全部)

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. "In the Shadow of Slavery" provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods...(展开全部)