基本信息
書名：A People’s History of the United States 美國人民的曆史
作者：Howard Zinn
齣版社名稱：Harper Perennial
齣版時間：2015
語種：英文
ISBN：9780062397348
商品尺寸：13.5 x 3.1 x 20.3 cm
包裝：平裝
頁數：730

編輯推薦
A People’s History of the United States《美國人民的曆史》是美國著名左翼曆史學傢和社會評論傢霍華德?津恩的代錶作。作品從普通人而非政治和經濟精英的視角來講述曆史，其主角不是徵服者、統治者、政客和資本傢，而是印第安人、黑奴、勞工、婦女以及逃犯、示威者、騷亂者、拒服兵役者，講述的是那些反對奴隸製度和種族歧視的勇士的曆史，是那些為爭取勞工權利而領導罷工鬥爭的工人領袖的曆史，是那些反對戰爭和軍國主義的社會主義者及其他人士的曆史。本書適閤有一定美國曆史基礎、英文水平中級以上的讀者。
推薦理由：
1.視角和觀點獨特，從普通人的角度講述美國曆史；
2.初版於1980年齣版，並獲得1981年國傢圖書奬提名，成為美國很受歡迎的曆史教材；
3.本版本額外提供16頁的附錄，包括作者訪談及相關推薦書等，有助於理解書本內容。
With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this edition of the classic national bestseller chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in school—with its emphasis on great men in high laces—to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People’s History of the United States is the only volume to tell America’s story from the point of view of—and in the words of—America’s women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country’s greatest battles—fights for fair wages, eight-hour workdays, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women’s rights, racial equality—were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance.
Covering Christopher Columbus’s arrival through President Clinton’s first term, A People’s History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. 
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Review
“Howard Zinn’s work literally changed the conscience of a generation. And the series of ‘people’s histories’ derived from this great work have provided new understanding of who we are and what we should aspire to be. As the thirty-fifth anniversary edition reminds us, this is a remarkable legacy.” — Noam Chomsky
“A brilliant and moving history of the American people.” — Library Journal
“Historian may well view it as a step toward a coherent new version of American history.” — Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review


作者簡介
霍華德?津恩（Howard Zinn），曆史學傢、劇作傢、社會活動傢。1922年生於紐約一個猶太裔工人傢庭，23歲時作為美國空軍的一名投彈手參加瞭二戰，這一經曆促成瞭他日後強烈的反戰觀點。戰後，津恩先後就讀於紐約大學和哥倫比亞大學，獲得博士學位。在黑人女子學院斯佩爾曼學院教授瞭七年曆史後，津恩在波士頓大學擔任政治學教授，直到24年後退休。1980年，《美國人民的曆史》齣版，並獲得1981年國傢圖書奬提名。津恩以被壓迫人民的抗爭為視角，敘述瞭一部以人民反抗運動為主題的美國史，取代標準曆史教科書，在美國大學和高中廣泛教授，紐約時報稱其二十多年來“年均銷售超過十萬冊”，成為美國很受歡迎的曆史教材。2008年，津恩成立瞭“津恩教育計劃”，在全美各地的初、高中推廣教授《美國人民的曆史》。從20世紀60年代投身黑人民權運動，到後來反對越戰、伊戰的和平運動，津恩活躍在社會舞颱上超過半個世紀，2010年獲得馬丁?路德?金人道主義奬錶彰。同年，津恩在加州聖莫尼卡去世。
Howard Zinn (1922–2010) was a historian, playwright, and social activist. In addition to A People’s History of the United States, which has sold more than two million copies, he is the author of many books, including the autobiography You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, The People Speak, and Passionate Declarations. 

目錄
  Introduction by Anthony Arnove
1. Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress
2. Drawing the Color Line
3. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition
4. Tyranny Is Tyranny
5. A Kind of Revolution
6. The Intimately Oppressed
7. As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs
8. We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God
9. Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
10. The Other Civil War
11. Robber Barons and Rebels
12. The Empire and the People
13. The Socialist Challenge
14. War Is the Health of the State
15. Self-help in Hard Times
16. A People War?
17. “Or Does It Explode?”
18. The Impossible Victory Vietnam
19. Surprises
20. The Seventies: Under Control?
21. Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus
22. The Unreported Resistance
23. The Coming Revolt of the Guards
24. The Clinton Presidency
25. The 2000 Election and the “War on Terrorism”
  Afterword
  Bibliography
  Index

精彩書摘
    Columbus wrote:
    As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts.
    The information that Columbus wanted most was: Where is the gold? He had persuaded the king and queen of Spain to finance an expedition to the lands, the wealth, he expected would be on the other side of the Atlantic-the Indies and Asia, gold and spices. For, like other infoit1ied people of his time, he knew the world was round and he could sail west in order to get to the Far East.
    Spain was recently uni6ed, one of the new modern nation-states, like France, England, and Portugal. Its population, mostly poor peasants, worked for the nobility, who were 2 percent of the population and owned 95 percent of the land. Spain had tied itself to the Catholic Church, expelled all the Jews, driven out the Moors. Like other states of the modern world, Spain sought gold, which was becoming the new mark of wealth, more useful than land because it could buy anything.
   There was gold in Asia, it was thought, and certainly silks and spices, for Marco Polo and others had brought back marvelous things from their overland expeditions centuries before. Now that the Turks had conquered Constantinople and the eastern Mediterranean, and controlled the land routes to Asia, a sea route was needed. Portuguese sailors were working their way around the southern tip of Africa. Spain decided to gamble on a long sail across an unknown ocean.
    In return for bringing back gold and spices, they promised Columbus 10 percent of the profits, governorship over new-found lands, and the fame that would go with a new title : Admiral of the Ocean Sea. He was a merchants clerk from the Italian city of Genoa, part-time weaver (the son of a skilled weaver), and expert sailor. He set out with three sailing ships, the largest of which was the Santa Maria, perhaps 100 feet long, and thirty-nine crew members.
    Columbus would never have made it to Asia, which was thousands of miles farther away than he had calculated, imagining a smaller world. He would have been doomed by that great expanse of sea. But he was lucky. One-fourth of the way there he came upon an unknown, uncharted land that lay between Europe and Asia-the Americas. It was early October 1492, and thirty-three days since he and his crew had left the Canary Islands, off the Atlantic coast of Africa. Now they saw branches and sticks floating in the water. They saw flocks of birds.