标题：美国历史概况
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