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)

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)

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)

By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively. In South Carolina, only twenty year...(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)

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)

From Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author of The Three Body Problem, comes a new science fiction masterpiece. In those days, Earth was a planet in space. In those days, Beijing was a city on Earth. On this night, history as known to humanity came to an end. Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth ...(展开全部)