19世纪80年代到20 世纪20 年代，美国出现了许多社会、政治和经济的改革实践。这个时期被称为“进步时代”。进步时代是美国历史上最具重要意义的时期之一。当时，美国社会正经历从农业社会向工业社会的急剧变革，美国经济迅速发展，但也产生了大量的经济社会问题。传统历史学家认为，反垄断、环境保护、禁酒、妇女参政权、儿童保护、产品质量控制成为当时进步主义改革者的重要选择。 有别于传统的历史学家，罗斯巴德在本书中并非向读者详细描述进步时代。相反，他以大量史料为基础，对这个时代进行了革命性诠释，深入分析了当时政策选择背后的原因、推动群体。在罗斯巴德看来，进步主义带来了有组织种族主义的胜利，南部黑人被剥夺选举权，移民终止，联邦政府推动建设的大政府、大企业和大工会三方联盟，对军人形象和征兵的大肆赞美，以及美国的海外扩张。简而言之，进步时代启动了美国现代政治经济体系的形...(展开全部)

史蒂文·J.迪纳（Steven J.Diner），美国罗格斯大学纽瓦克分校（Rutgers University，Newark）教务和历史学教授。著有《一座城市和它的大学：芝加哥的公共政策》（A City and Its Universities：Public Policy in Chicago）等5本著作。

While covering no especially new ground, Diner (History/George Mason Univ.) compiles a cohesive look at one of the most change-filled eras in American history. Diner's view of the Progressive era, stressing the effects of the Industrial Revolution on American society, concentrates on the lives and experiences of workers, women, African-Americans, immigrants, and politicians in ...(展开全部)

Thomas C. Leonard is research scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University, where he is also lecturer in the Department of Economics.

In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But not for all. Academic social scientists such as Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and...(展开全部)

Progressive Web Apps teaches you PWA design and the skills you need to build fast, reliable websites. There are lots of ways you can use PWA techniques, and this practical tutorial presents interesting, standalone examples so you can jump to the parts that interest you most. You'll discover how Web Service Workers vastly improve site loading, how to effectively use push notific...(展开全部)

林恩·亨特是美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校杰出的研究型教授，曾任美国历史学会主席。她著作等身，包括《人权的发明》《历史的真相》等。目前她定居于洛杉矶。

Shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Award: "The book is a gift, as fascinating as it is important."—Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during th...(展开全部)

Whether it's a faulty memory, a tendency to multitask, or difficulty managing our time, every one of us has limitations conspiring to keep us from being organized. But, as organizational guru and former Google CIO Douglas C. Merrill points out, it isn't our fault. Our brains simply aren't designed to deal with the pressures and competing demands on our attention in today's fast...(展开全部)

Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written. George Orwell wrote that “history is written by the winners.” Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers, women, and minorities challenge...(展开全部)