"Perhaps the most penetrating examination yet published of 'the sources of our obsessive concern with the meaning of America.'"--Jack P. Greene, "History" "The most valuable achievement in colonial American literature since the best work of Perry Miller."--David Levin, "William and Mary Quarterly" "A brave and brilliant book...that is the most significant and far-reaching con...(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。

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed "Epistemology of the Closet". Working from classic texts of European and American writers - including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde -S...(展开全部)

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed "Epistemology of the Closet". Working from classic texts of European and American writers - including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde -S...(展开全部)

The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder’s work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts ...(展开全部)

Review An important book about a critical question. (New York Times Book Review ) Loftus is a quiet, sincere, and reliable guide to this important research and its applications. (Times Higher Education Supplement ) Product Description Every year hundreds of defendants are convicted on little more than the say-so of a fellow citizen. Although psychologists have suspected for dec...(展开全部)

An astonishing range of reading in contemporary tracts and modern authorities is manifest, and many aspects of British and colonial affairs are illuminated. As a political analysis this very important contribution will be hard to refute .... -- Frederick B. Tolles, Political Science Quarterly "He produces historical analysis which is as revealing to the political scientist or s...(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)

"Wolf's intention is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted their historical accounts of their societies before European intervention. . . . His historical sweep and analytic breadth are astounding, and he gives approximately equal weight to historical 'winners' and 'losers.'" --Michael S. ...(展开全部)

Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in his...(展开全部)