The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it ultimately had a catastrophic global impact—it strengthened the British Empire and led to widespread persecution and duress. From the opium wars in China to anti-imperial rebellions in Peru t...(展开全部)

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.

A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas The Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment, s...(展开全部)

[英]乔纳森·伊斯雷尔（Jonathan Israel） 本科毕业于剑桥大学，在牛津大学获得博士学位，现任普林斯顿高等研究院现代欧洲史名誉教授。沃尔夫森历史奖得主，世界知名启蒙运动历史学家。著有《法国大革命思想史》 《荷兰共和国：崛起、兴盛和衰落，1477—1806》等。

安德鲁·克雷格（Andrew Craig） 英国伦敦金融城20余年工作经验，曾就职于瑞银欧债部、股票部，法国农业信贷银行，专业生物技术投资银行等。在其金融职业生涯中，曾参与巴宝莉、易捷航空等数十家知名公司的IPO。 2011年创立个人理财网站，此后经常受邀在《星期日邮报》（The Mail on Sunday）、《镜报》（The Mirror）、《财经周刊》（MoneyWeek）等发表评论，也多次接受彭博社等专业媒体及电视台的专访。

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth cent...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·奈 “软实力之父”，美国知名政治学家，亚太事务专家，新自由主义学派代表人物之一。 先后受教于普林斯顿大学、牛津大学、哈佛大学，1964年获哈佛大学政治学博士学位，1977年步入政坛，曾出任卡特政府助理国务卿、克林顿政府全国情报委员会主席和美国助理国防部长，后来重回哈佛大学，曾任肯尼迪政府学院院长，现为哈佛大学杰出贡献教授。 ·提出复合相互依赖理论，直接促进了国际关系研究的自由国际主义（理想主义）的复兴，催生了新自由主义 ·最早提出并阐述了“软实力”概念，被称为“软实力之父” ·对美国外交政策影响最大的学者之一

约瑟夫·奈 “软实力之父”，美国知名政治学家，亚太事务专家，新自由主义学派代表人物之一。 先后受教于普林斯顿大学、牛津大学、哈佛大学，1964年获哈佛大学政治学博士学位，1977年步入政坛，曾出任卡特政府助理国务卿、克林顿政府全国情报委员会主席和美国助理国防部长，后来重回哈佛大学，曾任肯尼迪政府学院院长，现为哈佛大学杰出贡献教授。 ·提出复合相互依赖理论，直接促进了国际关系研究的自由国际主义（理想主义）的复兴，催生了新自由主义 ·最早提出并阐述了“软实力”概念，被称为“软实力之父” ·对美国外交政策影响最大的学者之一

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)

“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years.” -Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciou...(展开全部)