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  • 作 者:魏啸飞编著
  • 出 版 社:北京市:北京大学出版社
  • 出版年份:2008
  • ISBN:9787301139158
  • 页数:381 页
图书介绍:本书旨在帮助学生了解美国文明史,包括美国历史上美国法律经济贸易美国文学及社会生活等方面的一些重要事件,使学生在结束本课程之后得到对美国历史和文明的轮廓印象,并且能就其中某些重要事件和人物进行深层次对话。本书与传统的英语精读课相比较,把传统文化知识启发积极思考作为目标,英语语言在学习过程中成为获取知识的工具。
《美国文明史英文教程》目录

Chapter 1 The Discovery of America 1

1.1 Native American Civilization 3

1.2 Discovery of America (1492) 5

1.3 Spanish Adventures in the Americas (1500s) 8

1.4 The Spanish American Empire 10

1.5 The English Reformation (1534) 13

1.6 Raleigh’s Roanoke Venture (1585) 16

1.7 Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) 18

Chapter 2 The British American Society 23

2.1 The First British American Colony (1607) 24

2.2 Mayflower Compact (1620) 27

2.3 A City Upon a Hill (1630) 30

2.4 Halfway Covenant (1662) 32

2.5 Founding of the Carolinas (1663) 36

2.6 Development of New York (1664) 38

2.7 The Holy Experiment of Pennsylvania (1681) 40

Chapter 3 The American Nationality 45

3.1 Dominion of New England (1686—1689) 46

3.2 Witchcraft Trials in Salem (1692) 49

3.3 The Great Awakening (1730s—1740s) 51

3.4 The French and Indian War (1754—1760) 55

3.5 The Proclamation of 1763 58

3.6 Repeal of the Stamp Act (1766) 60

3.7 A Distinctive American Nationality 62

Chapter 4 The Declaration of Independence 67

4.1 The Boston Massacre (1770) 68

4.2 The Boston Tea Party (1773) 71

4.3 Benjamin Franklin Dressed Down (1774) 73

4.4 The First Continental Congress (1774) 76

4.5 Common Sense (1776) 78

4.6 Declaration of Independence (1776) 80

4.7 American Advantages and Disadvantages 83

Chapter 5 The U.S.Constitution 87

5.1 The American Revolutionary War (1776—1783) 88

5.2 State Constitutions (1780s) 91

5.3 The Articles of Confederation (1781) 93

5.4 Shays’s Rebellion (1786—1787) 95

5.5 The Federal Constitution (1787) 97

5.6 The Federalist v.Antifederalist Debate (1787—1788) 101

5.7 The First Secretary of the Treasury (1789—1795) 103

Chapter 6 Manifest Destiny 109

6.1 The Louisiana Purchase (1803) 111

6.2 The War of 1812 (1812—1814) 113

6.3 The Missouri Compromise (1820) 116

6.4 The Monroe Doctrine (1823) 118

6.5 The Indian Removal Act (1830) 121

6.6 Transcendentalism (1836) 123

6.7 The Annexation of Texas (1845) 126

Chapter 7 A House Divided 131

7.1 The Mexican War (1846—1848) 132

7.2 California Gold Rush (1848—1850) 134

7.3 The Compromise of 1850 137

7.4 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) 139

7.5 The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) 141

7.6 The Dred Scott Decision (1857) 144

7.7 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates in 1858 146

Chapter 8 The Civil War 151

8.1 The Secession (1861) 152

8.2 Causes of the Civil War 155

8.3 Emancipation Proclamation (1862) 157

8.4 Gettysburg Address (1863) 159

8.5 The Beginning of the Reconstruction (1863) 161

8.6 The End of the Civil War (1865) 163

8.7 The 14th Amendment (1868) 165

Chapter 9 The Gilded Age 169

9.1 The First Transcontinental Railroad (1869) 170

9.2 The End of Reconstruction (1877) 173

9.3 The First Great Trust (1882) 176

9.4 Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) 178

9.5 Dawes Severalty Act (1887) 180

9.6 Plessy v.Ferguson (1896) 183

9.7 The Spanish-American War (1898) 186

Chapter 10 The First World War 191

10.1 Roosevelt Corollary (1904) 193

10.2 World War I (1914—1919) 195

10.3 Treaty of Versailles (1919) 198

10.4 Prohibition (1919) 201

10.5 The 19th Amendment (1920) 203

10.6 The Roaring 20s (1920s) 205

10.7 The Monkey Trial (1925) 208

Chapter 11 The Great Depression 213

11.1 The Great Depression (1929) 214

11.2 Hoover’s Remedies (1932) 217

11.3 FDR’s New Deal (1933) 219

11.4 Roosevelt’s Alphabet Soup (1933) 221

11.5 The Second New Deal (1935) 223

11.6 Opposition to the New Deal 226

11.7 End of the New Deal (1938) 228

Chapter 12 The Second World War 233

12.1 Neutrality Acts (1935—1937) 235

12.2 The Blitzkrieg (1939) 237

12.3 Pearl Harbor Air Raid (1941) 239

12.4 The Manhattan Project (1942) 241

12.5 D-Day (1944) 245

12.6 Hiroshima&Nagasaki (1945) 247

12.7 Legacy of WW Ⅱ 250

Chapter 13 The Cold War 253

13.1 The Iron Curtain (1946) 255

13.2 The Korean War (1950—1953) 257

13.3 Army—McCarthy Hearings (1954) 260

13.4 Brown v.Topeka (1954) 263

13.5 Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) 265

13.6 Students for a Democratic Society (1962) 267

13.7 Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) 270

Chapter 14 The Vietnam War 275

14.1 I Have a Dream (1963) 276

14.2 The Beginning of the Vietnam War (1964) 279

14.3 The Woodstock Festival (1969) 282

14.4 D6tente with China (1972) 284

14.5 Roe v…Wade (1973) 287

14.6 The End of the Vietnam War (1973) 290

14.7 The Resignation of Nixon (1974) 292

Chapter 15 The End of the Cold War 297

15.1 Bakke v…Regents of the UC at Davis (1978) 299

15.2 Iran—Contra Affair (1986) 301

15.3 The End of the Cold War (1990) 305

15.4 The Impeachment of Clinton (1998) 308

15.5 9.11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) 310

15.6 The Iraq War (2003) 314

15.7 Hurricane Katrina (2005) 316

Vocabulary 321

Postscript 362

Bibliography 366

Index 370

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