两艘船：1619 年詹姆斯敦，1620 年普利茅斯，与美国灵魂的博弈Two Ships:Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of AmericaDavid S. Reynolds

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Press

Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 9, 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 480 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593490231

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593490235

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.19 x 9.25 inches

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

“引人深思……在当今两极分化的时代，本书是喜爱之作。”——小亨利·路易斯·盖茨

“这是一个绝妙的构思，执行得也十分出色……大卫·S·雷诺兹找到了一种新颖而引人入胜的方式来探索美国故事的无穷复杂性——这些复杂性至今仍在塑造着我们。” ——乔恩·米查姆

本书以两艘曾被广泛用作南北思想战争象征的船只为棱镜，揭示了美国分裂的历史——这场斗争的回响至今仍在我们耳边回响。

在美国内战爆发前那段极度分裂的几十年里，人们普遍认为美国的纷争可以追溯到两艘船的到来，这两艘船的抵达时间相隔不到一年——“白狮号”于1619年将被奴役的非洲人带到詹姆斯敦，“五月花号”于1620年将清教徒带到普利茅斯岩。

戴维·S·雷诺兹在这部杰作中向我们揭示了更深层次的意义：这两艘被弗雷德里克·道格拉斯和其他许多人提及的船只，实际上代表着两种截然不同的现实：清教徒和保皇党，这两个群体及其意识形态都诞生于英国内战的血腥冲突之中。弗吉尼亚殖民地由保皇党人建立，深受君权神授思想的影响，这种思想体现在森严的父权等级制度中。普利茅斯殖民地反对国王及其教会的人士，虽然并非无缺，却孕育着更为平等主义的政治愿景。

1619年和1620年的这两艘船在围绕奴隶制的激烈斗争乃至战争中，扮演了至关重要的角色，它们在象征意义和语言的交锋中发挥了关键作用。正如雷诺兹所指出的，在美国，曾有很长一段时间，人人都知道“保皇党”和“清教徒”的含义。这表面上是南北之争，但更深层次上，它关乎社会等级制度是否是自然秩序。

然而，随着美国陷入吉姆·克劳法的漫长黑暗时期，这两艘船的象征意义也随之消逝。“五月花号”和感恩节的意义也随之改变，成为主流的、非政治化的理念。如果说内战前这两艘船作为文化交汇点的地位揭示了这场冲突的关键所在，那么战后人们对它们的遗忘则深刻地解释了为何通往真正平等的道路如此崎岖。伟大的大卫·S·雷诺兹通过挖掘这两艘船的对立形象，使我们能够像弗雷德里克·道格拉斯及其同时代人那样，利用它们来挑战我们，并给予我们完成这项任务的希望。

“Provocative . . . essential reading for today’s polarized times.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

“This is a brilliant conceit, wonderfully executed. . . . David S. Reynolds has found a new and compelling way to explore the infinite complexities of the American story—complexities that shape us still.” —Jon Meacham

A revelatory history of American division through the prism of two ships once widely used as symbols in the war of ideas between North and South—a struggle whose echoes remain with us today

In the bitterly polarized decades leading up to the American Civil War, it was commonplace to argue that America’s strife could be traced back to the arrival of two ships, less than a year apart—The White Lion, which brought the first enslaved Africans to Jamestown in 1619, and the Mayflower, which brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth Rock in 1620.

In a deeper sense, David S. Reynolds shows us, in this magnificent book, those two ships, invoked by Frederick Douglass and many others, stood for two quite distinct realities: the Puritans and the Cavaliers, names and ideologies born in the bloodshed of the English Civil War. The Virginia colony, founded by royalists, was steeped in the ideas of divine right, which flowed down in rigid patriarchal hierarchies. Plymouth Colony’s dissenters to the king and his church, while hardly perfect, carried the seeds of a more egalitarian political vision.

These two ships of 1619 and 1620 played a key role in the battle of images and words that marked the roiling fight, and then war, over slavery. As Reynolds shows, there was a long stretch of time in America when everyone knew what Cavaliers and Puritans meant. It was North versus South, but more deeply, it was about whether social hierarchy was the natural order of things.

But then, as America descended into the long night of Jim Crow, the metaphor of the two ships went to sleep as well. The meaning of the Mayflower and of Thanksgiving changed as they became mainstream, apolitical ideas. If the ships’ status as cultural touchpoints before the Civil War tells us something vital about that conflict, their forgetting afterward tells us much about why the road to true equality has proved so stony. By dredging up these two ships’ dueling images, the great David S. Reynolds enables us to make the same use of them that Frederick Douglass and his contemporaries did to challenge us, and to give us hope that we are up to the task.

作者简介

大卫·S·雷诺兹是纽约市立大学研究生中心的杰出教授。他是《沃尔特·惠特曼的美国：一部文化传记》的作者，该书荣获班克罗夫特奖和大使图书奖。他的其他著作包括荣获克里斯蒂安·高斯奖的《美国文艺复兴之下》；《废奴主义者约翰·布朗》；《觉醒的巨人：杰克逊时代的美国》；《胜于刀剑：汤姆叔叔的小屋与美国之战》；以及《林肯文选》。他的新著作是《亚伯：亚伯拉罕·林肯的时代》，该书是纪录片《林肯的困境》的创作基础，并荣获吉尔德·莱尔曼亚伯拉罕·林肯奖。

David S. Reynolds is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography, winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award. His other books include Beneath the American Renaissance, winner of the Christian Gauss Award; John Brown, Abolitionist; Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson; Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America; and Lincoln’s Selected Writings. His most recent book is Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times, the basis of the documentary Lincoln’s Dilemma and winner of the Gilder Lehrman Abraham Lincoln Prize.