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.

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.

雅克·当斯（Jacques M. Downs），美国新英格兰大学（缅因州比迪福德）历史学教授。

雅克·当斯（Jacques M. Downs），美国新英格兰大学（缅因州比迪福德）历史学教授。

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers ...(展开全部)

麦高登（Gordon Mathews），香港中文大学人类学系主任。著作包括《全球文化/个人身份：在文化超市中寻求家园》（Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket）、《人生的意义是什么？日本人和美国人如何理解他们的世界》（What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds）及《香港，中国：培育国家认同》（Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation），并合编过多本书籍。 译者杨玚，香港中文大学学能提升研究中心研究助理。译著包括《香港重庆大厦：世界中心的边缘地带》、...(展开全部)

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers ...(展开全部)

麦高登（Gordon Mathews），香港中文大学人类学系主任。著作包括《全球文化/个人身份：在文化超市中寻求家园》（Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket）、《人生的意义是什么？日本人和美国人如何理解他们的世界》（What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds）及《香港，中国：培育国家认同》（Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation），并合编过多本书籍。 译者杨玚，香港中文大学学能提升研究中心研究助理。译著包括《香港重庆大厦：世界中心的边缘地带》、...(展开全部)

In this 25th anniversary edition, Bailyn has added a substantial essay, "Fulfillment", as a Postscript to the original text. In it he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This study of the p...(展开全部)