美国读本

出版时间：2011-8  出版社：北京大学出版社  作者：金衡山 编  
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内容概要

　　如何读懂美国?收集在《美国读本(英语版)》里的文本涵盖美国社会的各个方面，包括政治、文化、宗教、哲学、经济、文学、教育等，沿着历史的脉络，提供的不仅是历史文献，对于美国历史的形成和走向有过重要的影响，更是关于美国的理念和思想，读懂了它们也就读懂了美国是如何一路走到今天的。
　　

作者简介

　　金衡山，华东师范大学英语系教授，博士。1991年北京大学英语系研究生毕业留校工作，2005调入华东师大。长期从事美国文学和文化的研究。2010—2011年度中美富布赖特项目研究学者。主要著作有：《厄普代克“兔子四部曲”中的当代美国》(英文)、《厄普代克与当代美国社会：厄普代克十部小说研究》等。“美国文学研究中的跨民族视野”，《红字》的政治和文化批评—兼谈文化批评的模式”，“自由的丧失—《一位女士的画像》的谱系学研究”，“经典以外的世界—十九世纪美国通俗小说的文化解读”等。译著：《美国大城市的死与生》。

书籍目录

i. from colony to constitution: 1620---
a. colonial mind
john smith: a description of new england (excerpt) (1616)
mayflower compact (1620)
john winthrop: the little speech (excerpt) (1639)
roger williams: the bloody tenet of persecution, for cause of
conscience (excerpt) (1644)
benjamin franklin: the way to wealth (1757)
b. making the revolution
samuel adams: the rights of the colonists (excerpt) (1772)
patrick henry: give me liberty or give me death (1775)
thomas jefferson: declaration of independence (1776)
thomas paine: the american crisis (i) (excerpt) (1777)
c. american character and thoughts on the constitution
hector st. john de crevecoeur: letters from an american farmer what
is an american (excerpt)(1782)
james madison: the federalist essays no. 10 (1787)
george washington: first inaugural address (1789)
ii. democratic development and cultural formation:1820--1863
a. development and democracy
andrew jackson: the majority is to govern (excerpt) (1829)
alexis de tocqueville: social condition of the anglo-americans(from
democracy in america) (1835)
ralph waldo emerson: the american scholar (excerpt) (1837)
henry david thoreau: civil disobedience (excerpt) (1848)
b. voices of the disadvantaged
elizabeth cady stanton:
the seneca falls declaration of sentiments and resolutions
(1848)
frederick douglass: speech at the anti-slavery association
(excerpt) (1848)
seattle: the indian's night promises to be dark (1853)
c. causes of the civil war
george fitzhugh: cannibals all! or, slaves without masters
(excerpt) (1857)
abraham lincoln: the emancipation proclamation (1863)
iii. reconstruction and industrialization: 1865--1900
a. the american dream: imagination and faith
horatio alger: ragged dick (excerpt) (1867)
walt whitman: democracy (excerpt) (1867)
b. visions of and criticisms about progress
thomas alva edison: on the industrial research laboratory
(1887)
frederick turner: the significance of the frontier in american
history (excerpt) (1893)
thorstein veblen: "conspicuous consumption"(excerpt from the theory
of the leisure class) (1899)
john dewey: my pedagogic creed (excerpt) (1897)
iv. the rise of the american age: 1900---1950
a. business and entrepreneurialism
john wanamaker: on the department store (excerpt) (1900)
frederick winslow taylor: on scientific management (excerpt)
(1912)
henry ford: my life and work (excerpt) (1922)
b. the voice of the oppressed
w.e.b dubois: the souls of black folks (excerpt) (1903)
"manifesto" of industrial workers of the world (1905)
c. american ideas
william james: pragmatism (excerpt) (1907)
woo&ow wilson: the meaning of democracy (1912) /
h. l. mencken: preface to the american language (1919)
herbert hoover: american individualism (excerpt) (1922)
henry fairchild: the melting-pot mistake (excerpt) (1926)
d. the conquer of fear, a vision of american mission and the will
to prevail
franklin d. roosevelt: first inaugural address (1933)
henry luce: the american century (excerpt) (1941)
william faulkner: speech on acceptance of the nobel prize
(1950)
v. contemporary america: dominance and struggle: 1950---2009
a. social criticism and the cold war fanaticism in the
fifties
david riesman: preface to the lonely crowd (excerpt) (1950)/
c. wright mills: preface to white collar:the american middle
classes (excerpt) (1951)
joseph mccarthy: speech at wheeling, west virginia (excerpt)
(1950)
b. the atomized america: the turbulent sixties
tom hayden: students for a democratic society: the port huron
statement (excerpt) (1962)
martin luther king: letter from the birmingham city jail (excerpt)
(1963)
lyndon baines johnson: the great society speech (excerpt)
(1965)
betty friedan: our revolution is unique (excerpt) (1968)
c. reclaiming america in the age of the three worlds
henry a. kissinger: strengthening the world economic structure
(1975)
ronald reagan: farewell address (1988)
d. toward the challenges in the new century
michael walzer: what does it mean to be an "american"? (excerpt)
(1990)
bill clinton: address before a joint session of congress (excerpt)
(1993)
toni morrison: nobel lecture (1993)
george w. bush: speech addressed to the congress about the war
against terrorism (2001)
samuel p. huntington: anglo-protestant culture (excerpt from whoare
we?) (2003)
barack obama: inaugural address (2009)

章节摘录

版权页：First, "The first fundamental, positive law of all common wealths or states is theestablishing the legislative power. As the first fundamental natural law, also, which is to govern even the legislative power itself, is the preservation of the society."  Secondly, the Legislative has no right to absolute, arbitrary power over the livesand fortunes of the people; nor can mortals assume'a prerogative not only too high formen, but for angels, and therefore reserved for the exercise ofthe Deitv alone."The Legislative cannot justly assume to itself a power to rule by extempore arbitrarydecrees; but it is bound to see that justice is dispensed, and that the rights ofthe subjectsbe decided by promulgated,  standing,  and known laws,  and authorized independent judges " ;that is, independent, as far as possible, ofPrince and people. "There should be one rule ofjustice for rich and poor, for the favorite at court, and the countryman at the plough." Thirdly, The supreme power cannot justly take from any man any part of hisproperty, without his consent in person or by his representative. These are some of the first principles of natural law and justice, and the greatbarriers of all free states and of the British Constitution in particular. It is utterlyirreconcilable to these principles and to many other fundamental maxims of thecommon law, common sense, and reason that a British House of Commons shouldhave a right at pleasure to give and grant the property of the Colonists. (That theColonists are well entitled to all the essential rights, liberties, and privileges of men andfreemen born in Britain is manifest not only from the Colony charters in general, butacts of the British Parliament.) The statute of the 13th of Geo. 2, C. 7, naturalizes evenforeigners after seven years' residence. The words ofthe Massachusetts charter are these: "And further, our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby for us, our heirs, andsuccessors, grant, establish, and ordain, that all and every of the subjects of us, ourheirs, and successors, which shall go to, and inhabit within our said Province orTerritory, and every of their children, which shall happen to be born there or on the seasin going thither or returning from thence, shall have and enjoy all liberties andimmunities of free and natural subjects within any of the dominions of us, our heirs,and successors, to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever as if they andevery one of them were born within this our realm of England."

编辑推荐

《美国读本(英文版)》是一部介绍美国文化、思想、政治、观念、历史等方面的综合读本，提供美国研究的基本素材。《美国读本(英文版)》沿着历史的脉络，涵盖美国社会的各方面，包括政治、文化、宗教、哲学、经济、社会、文学等，通过对历史的形成和走向有过重要影响的文献和文本，力求最精准地探求美国发展为世界霸主的根源。

用户评论 (总计5条)

•   美国文学文化选本，可参考
•   很好的美国读本
•   好书~值得一读！
•   非常有助于了解美国文化
•   给同事的上高中的儿子买的，应该是有用的课外书。