內容提要
書籍封面《美國歷史文化概況(英文版)》遵循“以人為本”的理念，從中國學生實際出發，從不同方面向中國學生介紹美國的歷史與文化現象。全書共分15個單元，既涵蓋了美國歷史上的重大事件，如：殖民與獨立、西進運動、內戰、世界大戰、經濟大蕭條等，又涉及美國文化的方方面面，巨觀方面涵蓋了領土與環境、法律、節慶日、黑人奴隸、宗教與信仰等，微觀方面則包含了文學、藝術、建築、運動、音樂、電影、科技、城市等大量內容，可謂是美國歷史文化的一部縮影。全書採用真實地道的語言材料，主要取材於國外報刊雜誌以及相關歷史文獻資料，穿插圖表、照片等真實的視覺材料，表現手段活潑，效果生動直觀。無論對廣大學生還是對美國歷史文化感興趣的其他學習者來說，《美國歷史文化概況(英文版)》都是一本了解美國、積累歷史文化知識、開闊視野、啟發思路的良好讀物。
編輯推薦
《美國歷史文化概況(英文版)》是全國高等院校英語專業系列精品教材之一。
目錄
Unit 1 Colonization and Independence
Text A British Colonization (1607-1776)
Text B The Road to Independence (1763-1783)
Supplementary Reading The Issue of Representation
Unit 2 Territory and Environment
Text A Introduction to Territory and Environment of the United States
Text B Extremes and Natural Disasters in U.S.A
Supplementary Reading The Mississippi River
Unit 3 Westward Expansion
Text A Territorial Expansion
Text B Life on the Frontier
Supplementary Reading The Underground Railroad
Unit 4 Civil War and Abraham Lincoln
Text A American Civil War
Text B Abraham Lincoln and His Speech
Supplementary Reading O Captain! My Captain!
Unit 5 Two World Wars
Text A America During and After World War I
Text B America During and After World War II.
Supplementary Reading Speech on Hitler's Invasion of the U.S.S.R.
Unit 6 The Great Depression and theNew Deal
Text A Introduction to the Great Depression
Text B Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
Supplementary Reading Franklin Delano Roosevelt's FirstfiresideChat——"The Banking Crisis"
Unit 7 Laws and Rules
Text A The Law of the United States
Text B Declaration of Independence
Supplementary Reading Constitution of the United States of America
Unit 8 Sports and Figures
Text A TheNational Basketball Association
Text B Michael Jeffrey Jordan
Supplementary Reading Sports n the United States
Unit 9 Art, Literature, and Architecture
Text A Visual Arts and Architecture of U.S.A.
Text B MarkTwain
Supplementary Reading Pearl S. Buck
Unit 10 Music, Dance and Film
Text A Michael Joseph Jackson: A Super Star
Text B The Oscars
Supplementary Reading "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Unit 11 Science and Technology
Text A Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Text B Endeavour
Supplementary ReadingunmannedMilitary Space Planes Usher in New Weaponry Era
Unit 12 Holidays and Celebrations
Text A Thanksgiving Day
Text BIndependence Day
Supplementary Reading Christmas Day
Unit 13 Famous Cities and Sightseeing
Text A Washington, D.C.
Text B New York City
Supplementary Reading Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Unit 14 American Black
Text A African Americans
Text BMartin Luther King, Jr.
Supplementary Reading Barack Obama
Unit 15 Religions and Faith
Text Apuritansinthe North America
Text B Nathan iel Hawth0rneand The Scarlet Letter
Supplementary Reading The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
序言
隨著全球化時代的到來和改革開放的深入，國際間跨文化合作日益增多，同時，各行各業，對具有紮實的外語知識技能和廣博的全球文化知識的人才的需求也日益迫切。2004年，國家教育部高等教育司公布的《大學英語課程教學要求》明確地把學生“文化意識”的培養列入到英語教學中，認為在英語教學中培養學生的文化意識與培養學生的語言意識、語言技能同等重要。語言教學不僅包括語言知識的教學，而且包括文化知識的教學。只有充分了解目標語言國的歷史文化，學習者才能真正有效地掌握語言知識，提高語言能力，更加有效地將這門語言運用於實踐。《美國歷史文化概況（英文版）》將了解美國歷史文化知識與學習英語語言技能結合在一起，是為高等學校英語專業學生和非英語專業本科學生、研究生編選的融文化與歷史知識為一體的新型英語教材。
本書遵循“以人為本”的理念，從中國學生實際出發，從不同方面向中國學生介紹美國的歷史與文化現象。全書共分15個單元，既涵蓋了美國歷史上的重大事件，如：殖民與獨立、西進運動、內戰、世界大戰、經濟大蕭條等，又涉及美國文化的方方面面，巨觀方面涵蓋了領土與環境、法律、節慶日、黑人奴隸、宗教與信仰等，微觀方面則包含了文學、藝術、建築、運動、音樂、電影、科技、城市等大量內容，可謂是美國歷史文化的一部縮影。全書採用真實地道的語言材料，主要取材於國外報刊雜誌以及相關歷史文獻資料，穿插圖表、照片等真實的視覺材料，表現手段活潑，效果生動直觀。無論對廣大學生還是對美國歷史文化感興趣的其他學習者來說，本書都是一本了解美國、積累歷史文化知識、開闊視野、啟發思路的良好讀物。通過本書的學習可以進一步增進中國學生對美國歷史文化的了解，並透過歷史的表象了解美國文化核心，拓寬文化視野，從而進一步提高跨文化交際的能力。
本書可以作為英語專業知識基礎課——美國文化、美國歷史方向的專業課教材，也可以作為高等院校非英語專業本科學生和研究生公選課教材或課外泛讀教材，也可供歷史學專業美國史方向和對美國問題饒有興趣的學生及希望通過對美國歷史與文化的學習來提高英語技能的讀者使用。
文摘
本書插圖In the field of world policy, I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor: the neighbor whoresolutelyrespects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others; the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects thesanctityof his agreements in and with a world of neighbors.
If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize, as we have never realized before, our interdependence on each other; that we can notmerelytake, but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress can be made, no leadership becomes effective.
We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and our property to such discipline, because it makes possible a leadership which aims at the larger good. This, I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us, bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of our people dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems.
Action in this image, action to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors. Our Constitution is so simple, so practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form. That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring political mechanism the modern world has ever seen.
It has met every stress of vast expansion of territory, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations. And it is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly equal, wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.
