美国历史概况
2006-6
外经贸大学
范悦
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本书按年代顺序分十章介绍从殖民地时间到二十一世纪美国社会和历史的演变，每章都配有相关年代美国的社会简介，并精先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。读者通过阅读本书，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。 为使读者更好地理解和掌握各章的重点和难点，每章末尾还附了练习题和思考题。本书所选部分材料和文章都在相当程序上反映西方学者对美国的认识，希望读者对其思想内容持客观和公正的批判态度。
Part one The Colonial Period（1607—1776） Section A Texts I . The European Explorers II. The British Colonies Section B Supplementary Readings Passage one Native Americans and Euopena？ Passage Two Why Did They Come to America？ Passage Three Life in Colonial America Passage Four The Evolution of Thanksgiving Section C ExercisesPart Two The Revolutionar 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 Rpresentation Passage Three Thomas Paine Passage Four James Madison’s Contribution to the Constiution Section C ExercisesPart Three The Young Republic（1790—1828） Section A Texts Section B Supplementary Readings Section C ExercisesPart Four Western Expansion and Reform（1829—1859） Section A Texts Section B Supplementary Readings Section C ExercisesPart five The Civil War and Reconstruction（1860—1887） Section A Texts Section B Supplementary Readings Section C ExercisesPart six The Gilded Age（1865—1900） Section A Texts Section B Supplementary Readings Section C ExercisesPart Seven The Progressive Era and World War I（1890—1917） Section A Texts Section B Supplementary Readings Section C ExercisesPart Eight Prosperity and Depression（1918—1933） Section A Texts Section B Supplementary Readings Section C ExercisesPart Nine The New Deal and Wolrd War(1993—1945) Section A Texts Section B Supplementary Readings Section C ExercisesPart Ten The Modern Era（1946—Present） Section A Texts Section B Supplementary Readings Section C ExercisesAppendixesBibliography
In rural areas， many people were poor. In inner cities， over-worked factory workers lived in crowded and unsanitary tenements. But， in general， at the beginning of the century people in the U. S. were able to buy more than they had in previous decades. More farm products were available in the cities： and therefore these products there were cheaper. With the rise of industry had come an increase in the variety and abundance of goods. There were department stores and mail-order catalogs. Shopping by telephone had begun. Electricity was reaching more people in the cities， the electric light having the advantage of being without soot or the need to'ventilate - while a few feared it， blaming it for fires， explosions and electrocutions， and some claimed that it caused freckles. There were electric trolley cars on which to ride to work or to stores or on Sunday outings. Middle and upper class Anglo-Americans were feeling brash and optimistic. Despite centuries of Calvinist preaching about the depravity of man， they were cheerful. And among the cheerful in 1900 was the Republican president， William McKinley. He was running for re-election， and he boasted of the pride and prosperity that had come to the United States during his four years in office. City folks were enjoying more leisure. The middleclass had annual vacations， and many of them looked forward to going to a resort during the summer. On weekends they went to orchestral concerts in a park or city center. They went to vaudeville shows， to amusement parks or to a local baseball game. During the summer a family might go fishing or boating. Family picnics were also popular， as were community socials. Much in entertainment was home made. Very few people had a phonograph， but there was an abundance of store bought sheet music. And in place of the phonograph， girls of a family played musical instruments. Families frequently gathered around a piano， organ， or pianola for sing-alongs. The most popular song in 1902 was "In the Good Old Summeffime，" which that year sold a million copies in sheet music， a song that evoked in many city people a nostalgia for the rural towns where they had strolled through shady lanes. Another popular song was "By the Light of the Silvery Moon. " Soon to follow were songs such as "Sweet Adeline，" "Ida， Sweet as Apple Cider，" and "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree. " People in middleclass families played lawn games such as croquet or lawn tennis. Young girls， along with their mothers， spent leisure hours at needle crafts， read religious novels. Some among the middleclass read westerns such as The Virginian， or they read sentimental sagas， or The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Some read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde， or The Red Badge of Courage， and some read from among Horatio Alger's 135 novels. And people conversed more than they would decades later. Men courted women in the parlor or front porch of the young woman's home， sometimes singing songs， playing their banjo or guitar， or strolling to the village green. As yet， women did not go driving off in automobiles. The automobile， "or horseless carriage，" was just beginning to make its appearance in the United States， disturbing the city traffic of horse drawn wagons and bicycles. In San Francisco and Cincinnati a speed-limit was established at eight miles an hour. Debates in bars and at dinner tables arose over whether the horseless carriage or the horse was better transportation. Animal power， it was argued， was better on mud-slick roads. With automobiles， some said， city streets would have less horse manure and smell. At the turn of the century， more women were finding work outside of their homes-the result of enlarged office bureaucracies and the coming of the typewriter. Women had become a third of the nation's clerical workers. Women were also filling positions as telephone operators. Artd teaching， once a male preserve， was now eighty-six percent women - but still managed by male principals and superintendents. Morality， Feminism and Class At the turn of the century， three quarters of the states forbade married women to have property in their own name. In these states a woman's property became her husband's upon marriage. In a third of the states， a woman's eamings belonged to her husband. And in all states except Wyoming， Utah， Colorado and Idaho， women were not allowed to vote-frontiers being less conservative on the woman's suffrage issue than the older， metropolitan areas， similar to Australia being ahead of England on this issue. Women active in the suffrage movement were descnbed as neurotic， as suffering from an urge to imitate men， as hysterical or as homosexuals. It was argued that with their big sleeves， women would be able to hide numerous ballots and vote more than once. Widespread among Americans was a desire for self-improvement-a constant force though the twentieth century. Since 1890 the number of students attending high school had been rising an average of around thirty percent a year， and high schools were increasing in number at an average of nineteen percent a year. The number of college graduates was also increasing： from a mere one percent of the population in the 1870s and on its way to eight percent by the 1920s. A part of the striving for self-improvement was religion. Many Americans gave credit to Christianity for the nation's prosperity， and they saw their own material successes as God's reward for their virtue， industry and thrift. While church attendance was declining in some of the more technologically advanced European societies， in the United States the number of churches being built increased and church memberships were growing. It was common among middleclass parents to try to put the fear of God into their children， and God and morality reached the children in the schools through the McGuffey Readers， with titles such as "Respect for the Sabbath Rewarded" and "The Bible the Best of Classics. " These books suggested that to succeed one had to be sober， frugal and energetic， and they suggested that prolonged poverty was a sign of God's disapproval. ……
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阅读此书既可以了解美国历史概况、扩大视野，还可以通过英语阅读提高英语能力，除此以外，书中描写既简洁又全面，大体上涵盖了美国历史上重大的历史事件和举足轻重的人物。因此读者在此大力推荐，希望读者朋友们喜欢。
全英文介绍美国历史挺有用的不过全书侧重点在经济贸易上。
适合每一位对英语和西方史有着浓厚兴趣的读者，不仅能提高英语阅读水平，也拓展了自己的知识面，对于即将去美国留学的学生来说是本难得的书，了解西方文化，更快融入当地的生活氛围。
这本书很好，很值得大家看。
内容翔实，且纸质不错，读起来特别好
外教让买来做课本的，可见内容的权威性了。发货挺快的，但是不知道为什么，纸张质量不是特别好，有同学觉得不是正版书。但是内容是可以肯定滴~
书是我们老师指定的教材，内容挺不错的
老师缺少的教师参考书
纯英文的看起来有点累，但是知识挺多~！但是字有点小~！
很专业很棒
全英寫作,內容囊括較全面,用詞簡潔,通俗易懂.
对于系统全面的了解美国历史很有帮助！
既适合了解美国历史，又能学英文，用词易懂。
所说是全英文的，但还是比较好理解的
用词不是很难 挺好理解 挺详尽的
稍微翻了一下，比较简单了，适合大学生阅读。
仅仅是英文，应该有注解的嘛
比较适合高一学生，英文比较简单。
书不是很厚，语言比较死板，如果当小说来读是不行的了
全英文的，有挑战
难度适中，我觉得可以当一般读物看看，全当长知识了
书是不错，可惜本人英语水平一般，翻译起来比较费劲，只好又买了一本类似此书的带中英文对照的版本，诶，.............
很值得拥有的一本书，就是里面人名比较多看起来有些吃力！但是对了解美国历史来说还是一本不错的书籍，值得拥有！！！
不错！我喜欢这本英文版的美国历史。可惜我想要美国出版的历史教材。中国人写美国历史，肯定有一定的偏见和不实。
如果英文不好，就别买了
这是市面上我能找到的唯一一本英文的简要介绍美国历史的著作。
任何一个国家的历史，如果细究起来，恐怕都会纷繁复杂的。可是这本书，简洁明了的叙述了美国历史上的重大事件，应该算书一本很好的入门书。 另外就是中国人用外语写书，特别又是写历史专业性的书，读来总是感觉有点不地道。
这本书是为了去美国才买的，很有用。对英语学习者来说也是很好的课外资料。
一直想找一本介绍美国历史的正规一点的书，这是网上我唯一搜到的一本。。。。但愿靠谱。。。。
外教让买的就买了呗，但是......等了20多天才到啊！！！！！！这是亚马逊的速度？？！！！！！！！！！！
很好 除了纸质一般以外，目前挺满意的
没有明确标明是全英文版的，迫使我又重新买了一本中文版的。还好家里小孩喜欢全英文的。
书到达速度一般吧有几本压的比较皱总体还行吧 送货员态度也行以后还是会在这边订书的
对于SAT2,其实这本书用处不大。。直接买辅导书就可以了。
最近正在看英文版的，还不错，蛮浅显易懂的
我是卓越老顾客，书不错，但是盗版，我很恼！！
这本书编排的很不错，对美国历史的讲解也有自己的独到之处。很喜欢
内容适合，送货很好。谢谢
对不起！我的英语很不好！
内容还可以，但是书的质量实在是不敢恭维。
呵呵，感觉就是一本教科书，其实也很不错