达娜•戈德斯坦（Dana Goldstein） 记者、《纽约时报》畅销书作家、《纽约时报》全国通讯作者，为《大西洋月刊》等多家杂志供稿。荣获新美国基金会（New America Foundation）的伯纳德•L•施瓦茨（Bernard L. Schwartz）项目奖金和国家研究所（Nation Institute）的海鹦基金会（Puffin Foundation）写作项目奖金。两次入围利文斯顿大奖（Livingston Awards）35岁以下杰出青年记者最终名单。

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)

Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous warfare affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by France against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and the immediate consequences of the tremors that spread from France a...(展开全部)

Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous warfare affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by France against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and the immediate consequences of the tremors that spread from France a...(展开全部)

Review "A highly cohesive, well-illustrated, penetrating series of essays that deserves to be added to every collection of books on the profession of architecture."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History "One of those infrequent books that satisfies very well the disparate needs of the general reader, the student, and the serious scholar...a significant contribution to our under...(展开全部)

Review "A highly cohesive, well-illustrated, penetrating series of essays that deserves to be added to every collection of books on the profession of architecture."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History "One of those infrequent books that satisfies very well the disparate needs of the general reader, the student, and the serious scholar...a significant contribution to our under...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 埃里克•杰•多林（Eric Jay Dolin）毕业于布朗大学，主修生物和环境研究，在耶鲁大学森林和环境研究学院获得环境管理硕士学位后，又取得麻省理工学院环境政策和规划博士学位。曾任美国环保署项目经理，在美国和英国从事环境顾问工作，他的大部分作品反映了他对野生动物、环境和美国历史的兴趣，如《美国和中国最初的相遇》《皮毛、财富和帝国》《利维坦》《政治的浑水》《蛇头》等。 个人网站：www.ericjaydolin.com 【译者简介】 冯璇，北京外国语大学英语学院毕业，曾在出版社从事版权工作，现专门从事翻译工作，已翻译出版了《利维坦 》《皮毛、财富和帝国》《印象巴黎》 《安第斯山脉的生与死》《印加帝国的末日》《布鲁内莱斯基的穹顶》《美第奇家族的兴衰》《郁金香热》等作品。

With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters is “rumbustious enough for the adventure-hungry” (Peter Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle). Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” - spanning the late 1600s through the e...(展开全部)

As Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds, said, "After reading Marjorie Shaffer's Pepper, you'll reconsider the significance of that grinder or shaker on your dining room table. The pursuit of this wizened berry with the bite changed history in ways you've never dreamed, involving extraordinary voyages, international trade, exotic locales, exploitation, brutality, diseas...(展开全部)