American History: A Very Short Introduction 英文原版 牛津通识系列：美国历史 Paul S. Boyer

基本信息

By (author) Paul S. Boyer

Format Paperback | 184 pages

Dimensions 116 x 173 x 10mm | 141g

Publication date 21 Sep 2012

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Publication City/Country New York, United States

Language English

Illustrations note 10 b/w halftones

ISBN10 019538914X

ISBN13 9780195389142

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

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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美国的这段简短历史将涵盖从最早的迁移到现在，这反映了保罗·博耶（Paul S. Boyer）对社会，知识和文化历史（包括大众文化和宗教）的兴趣。这将反映出他对美国历史的个人看法，其中充满了悖论和讽刺意味。在指出政治，经济，社会和文化方面的积极成就的同时，他还将讨论美国未能实现其常有

理想的失败。尽管美国将世界的想象力（及其自身形象）视为提供“所有人的自由与正义”的“机遇之地”，但现实往往不尽人意。

例如，北美殖民地的建立对于不列颠群岛和欧洲的殖民者，土著人民以及违背其意愿的被奴役的非洲人来说意义截然不同。十九世纪末期，不仅出现了令人印象深刻的工业扩张，创造了巨大的财富，而且城市移民贫民窟的条件令人震惊，劳动力的退化和剥削也使他们感到震惊。二十世纪郊区的消费者数量丰富的社会的出现意味着

改善了许多人的生活，奠定了令人印象深刻的文化创造力的基础，但留下了犯罪缠身的内城，并催生了大众化的文化。更新和复兴了国家的移民也激起了敌对和怨恨。尽管美国的大众文化已

显示出全球吸引力，但从20世纪初的菲律宾到二十一世纪初的伊拉克，美国在国外的军事力量投射有时达不到目的，并损害了该国的国际地位。尽管这本书不是荒唐的道德风俗或过时的道德风范，但它既不是庆祝性的赞美诗，也不是平淡的事实朗诵。

关于系列：牛津大学出版社的“非常简短的介绍”系列包含几乎每个主题领域的数百种标题。这些袖珍本是快速在新学科上取得成功的理想方法。我们的专家作者结合了事实，分析，观点，新思想和热情，使有趣且具挑战性的主题更具可读性。

作者简介

Paul S. Boyer was Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus and former director, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison; editor in chief, Oxford Companion to United States History (2001); co-author, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (with Stephen Nissenbaum, 1974); author, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (1985), et al.

保罗·博耶（Paul S. Boyer）是威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校（University of Wisconsin-Madison）的梅尔·柯蒂（Melle Curti）荣誉退休教授和前人文研究所所长。牛津大学美国历史同志主编（2001年）；萨勒姆拥有的著作：《巫术的社会起源》（与斯蒂芬·尼森鲍姆（1974年））合着；作者，《炸弹的早期曙光：原子年龄黎明的美国思想和文化》（1985年）等 。

书籍目录

List of illustrations ; Preface ; Chapter 1: Beginnings: Prehistory to 1763 ; Chapter 2: 1763-1789: Revolution, constitution, a new nation ; Chapter 3: 1789-1850: The promise and perils of nationhood ; Chapter 4: 1850-1865: Slavery and civil war ; Chapter 5: 1866-1899: Industrialization and its consequences ; Chapter 6: 1900-1920: Reform and war ; Chapter 7: 1920-1945: From conflict to global power ; Chapter 8: 1945-1968: Affluence and social unrest ; Chapter 9: To the present ; References ; Further reading ; Index