American History

出版者:Oxford University Press, USA

作者:Paul S. Boyer

页数:176

出版时间:2012-8-9

价格:USD 11.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780195389142

丛书系列:Very Short Introductions

图书标签:美国史历史VSI美国历史historyOxford美国History

This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and religion. It will reflect his personal view of American history, in which a sense of paradox and irony loom large. While noting positive achievements--political, economic, social, and cultural--he will also discuss the United States's failures to live up to its oft-stated ideals; although America has figured in the world's imagination (and its own self-image) as a "land of opportunity" offering "liberty and justice for all," the reality has often fallen short. For example, the establishment of the North American colonies had very different meanings for colonists from the British Isles and Europe, for Native peoples, and for enslaved Africans brought against their will. The late nineteenth century saw not only impressive industrial expansion and the creation of vast fortunes but also appalling conditions in urban-immigrant slums and a degraded, exploited labor force. The twentieth-century emergence of a suburban society of consumer abundance meant a better life for many and laid the groundwork for impressive cultural creativity, yet left behind crime-ridden inner cities and spawned a stultifying mass culture. The immigrants who have renewed and revitalized the nation have also stirred hostility and resentment. While American popular culture has demonstrated global appeal, the projection of U.S. military power abroad, from the Philippines early in the twentieth century to Iraq early in the twenty-first, has sometimes failed in its purpose and damaged the nation's international standing. Although this book will not be a muckraking expose or anachronistic moral tract, neither will it be a celebratory panegyric or a bland recital of facts.

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在哈佛书店买的小册子，看着玩，居然还学了点新东西。我还是喜欢历史胜过小说

非常非常非常好读

A good introduction- general and clear.

我咋还看过这个？？？

作者是wisc一位已经去世的 似乎很有地位的历史学家 麦迪逊果然是适合做学术的地方啊 笑