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图书信息

出版社: 对外经济贸易大学出版社; 第1版 (2006年6月1日)

平装: 297页

开本: 16开

ISBN: 781078661X

条形码: 9787810786614

尺寸: 22.9 x 18.5 x 1.2 cm

重量: 458 g

内容简介

《美国历史概况》按年代顺序分十章介绍从殖民地时期到二十一世纪初美国社会和历史的演变，每章都配有相关年代美国社会简介，并精选四五篇文章介绍美国历史上的重大事件、热点话题和知名人物，以帮助读者进一步了解每一历史时期的政治、经济和文化背景。读者通过阅读《美国历史概况》，能理清美国历史发展的脉络，获得对美国历史全景式的认知，从而能更好地了解美国这个社会和文化多元的国家。

目录

Part One The Colonial Period ( 1607 - 1776)

Sedion A Texts

I. The European Explorers

II. The British Colonies

Section B Supplementary Readings

Passage One Native Americans and Europeans

Passage Two Why Did They Come to America?

Passage Three Life in Colonial America

Passage Four The Evolution of Thanksgiving

Section C Exercises

Part Two The Revolutionary Period (1763 -1789)

Section A Texts

I. Conflict Between the American Colonies and the Mother Country

II. War for Independence

III. The New Constitution and Government

Section B Supplementary Readings

Passage One A Century of Imperial War

Passage Two The Issue of Representation

Passage Three Thomas Paine

Passage Four James Madison' s Contribution to the Constitution

Passage Five The Independence Hall

Section C Exercises

Part Three The Young Republic ( 1790 - 1828)

Section A Texts

I. The washington Administration

II. The John Adams Administration

I!1. The Jefferson Administration

IV. The Madison Administration

V. The James Monroe Administration

VI. The John Quincy Adams Administration

Section B Supplementary Readings

Passage One Alexander Hamilton and Finance

in the Washington Administration

Passage Two The Louisiana Purchase

Passage Three Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

Passage Four The Monroe Doctrine

Section C Exercises

Part Four Western Expansion and Reform (1829 -1859)

Section A Texts

I. The Jackson Administration

II. Manifest Destiny and the Mexican American War

II1. The Gold Rush

IV. Movement to the West

V. Reform

VI. Slavery and the Drift Toward the Civil War

Section B Supplementary Readings

Passage One The Early Banking System

Passage Two The Indian Removal Act of 1830

Passage Three The Underground Railroad

Passage Four Harriet Tubman

Passage Five Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Passage Six Horace Mann

Section C Exercises

Part Five The Civil War and Reconstruction (1860 -1877)

Section A Texts

I. The Civil War

II. Reconstruction

Section B Supplementary Readings

Passage One First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

Passage Two The Gettysburg Address

Passage Three Freedmen' s Bureau

Passage Four Ku Klux Klan

Passage Five General Robert E. Lee

Section C Exercises

Part Six The Gilded Age (1865 -1900)

Section A Texts

I. Industrialization

II. Urbanization

III. Immigration

IV. The Rise of U. S. Imperialism

Section B Supplementary Readings

Passage One Immigration in the United States

Passage Two Tenements

Passage Three Rockefeller and Standard Oil —— Rags to Riches

Passage Four Yellow Journalism

Passage Five Joseph Pulitzer

Section C Exercises

Part Seven The Progressive Era and World War I (1890 -1917)

Section A Texts

I. The Progressive Movement

II. World War I

III. The End of the Progressive Agenda

Section B Supplementary Readings

Passage One Jane Addams

Passage Two The Spoils System Versus the Merit System

Passage Three American Life at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Passage Four Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation

;Passage Five World War I on the Home Front

Passage Six The,Federal Reserve System

Section C Exercises

Part Eight Prosperity and Depression ( 1918 - 1933)

section A Texts

I. Prosperity: the Roaring Twenties

II. The Great Depression

Section B Supplementary Readings

Passage One Henry Ford

Passage Two Prohibition

Passage Three F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream

Passage Four Herbert Hoover

Section C Exercises

Part Nine The New Deal and World War 11 (1933 -1945)

Sedion A Texts

I. The New Deal

II. World War II

Section B Supplementary Readings

Passage One Social Security in the United States

Passage Two Isolationism

Passge Three The Cruel Injustice of Japanese Internment:

Camp Harmony

Passage Four The Dust Storm: Mass Exodus from the Plains

Sedion C Exercises

Part Ten The Modern Era (1946 - present)

Sedion A Texts

I. The United States in the 1950s

II. The United States in the 1960s

III. The United States in the 1970s

IV. The United States from 1980 to 2000

V. The United States Enters the 21st Century

Section B Supplementary Readings

Passage One The Truman Doctrine

Passage Two I Have a Dream

Passage Three Rosa Parks

Passage Four Malcom X

Section C Exercises

Appendixes

Appendix I: Map of the United States

Appendix II: Outstanding Events in American History

Appendix m: Historical Documents

Bibliography