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。

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)

萨克凡·伯克维奇（1933—2014） 出生于加拿大，一生大部分时间都在美国教学与写作。曾为美国人文科学院院士，“美国学”研究协会主席，八卷本《剑桥美国文学史》主编。1983—2000年为哈佛大学查尔斯·H.卡斯威尔英美文学与语言教授，2000年到去世为哈佛大学鲍威尔·M.卡伯特美国文学教授。去哈佛前曾在加州大学圣迭戈分校、布兰代斯大学、哥伦比亚大学任教。

经济杀手，是指那些拿着高薪的顶尖专业人士，他们从世界各国攫取了数以千亿计的金钱。这些钱，通过世界银行，美国国际开发署以及其他国外的援助机构，装入到美国各大集团公司的金库和少数控制全球自然资源的显赫家族的口袋中。经济杀手用尽各种高明手段：伪造财政报告、操纵选举、贿赂、敲诈，色诱乃至谋杀。他们玩的是美国“帝国霸权”时代一开始就有的“老把戏”，在经济全球化的时代，其规模空前庞大，令人恐怖。 我清楚这一切！因为我曾经就是一名经济杀手！ ——约翰•珀金斯

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)

杰西卡·米特福德（Jessica Mitford，1917—1996 ），英国出生的著名作家、记者，以其对美国社会各方面的深入调查和批判闻名。1963年，她的第二本著作《美国式死亡》出版，凭借对于美国殡葬业无情而深入的揭露，成为当年的畅销书。米特福德之后有关美国监狱产业、新生儿护理产业以及民权运动的作品，也获得了巨大的反响。

What holds America together? In this classic work, Russell Kirk describes the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul and commonwealth. Beginning with the Hebrew prophets, Kirk examines in dramatic fashion the sources of American order. His analytical narrative might be called "a tale of five cities": Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia. For ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. Eric Foner takes freedom not as a timeless truth but as a value whose meaning and scope have been contested throughout American history. His sweeping narrative shows freedom to have been...(展开全部)