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Recommend some English books about American history and culture.
1 American history and culture

Published by Zhejiang University Press on June 5438+ 10, 2007, translated by Wang Jiafeng and Zhou Xudong.

Abstract: One of the core topics involved in the reform of talent training mode in colleges and universities is to build a teaching knowledge system that conforms to the modern social concept and can reflect the level of scientific and technological progress. The ideal university teaching knowledge system should be contemporary, advanced, academic and appropriate, and be embodied in the teaching material system and curriculum content that can show the above advanced concepts and characteristics.

The book is divided into three chapters, including the War of Independence and the Civil War, environmental protection and environmental movement, Puritanism and Pragmatism, the spirit of invention and scientific exploration, and George Washington.

2. A Brief History of America

It is a book published by Anhui People's Publishing House on 20 13 and 1 by Wang Yi. This book is an American history book, involving politics, economy, law, religion, culture and many other fields.

A Brief History of America is a popular and vivid American history book, which was compiled by Beijing New Oriental teachers. With his profound knowledge, the author tells the history of the United States from Columbus' discovery of the New World to World War II, and gives a profound and unique description of the historical events, western civilization, scientific and technological inventions and American political life in this period.

It also introduces some important historical figures in the colonial period, the War of Independence, the Civil War and the American development period. In order to let readers know the general situation of each chapter, this book also includes more than 200 color photos, which are different from other editions.

3. Americans: Founding experience

Author: (America) Daniel J. Borsting, formerly known as "Americans: National Experience".

Content abstract: During his teaching at the University of Chicago from 65438 to 0944, the author once had a unique academic point of view that American pragmatism and realism national character did not come from a certain dogma or belief, but was naturally formed in the process of settling in the North American continent under the tempering of the environment. This view may constitute the main motivation of his later trilogy "The American".

With a length of 6.5438+0.5 million words, this trilogy shows the historical development of the United States from colonial to contemporary in a panoramic way, causing a sensation. Therefore, the author determines the academic status of American history experts. This trilogy won many awards, and the last book, The Course of Democracy, also won the Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Research with 1973.

4. A Brief History of American Race

It is a book published by CITIC Publishing House on 201119. The writer is Thomas sauville.

In A Brief History of American Race, the author tells the struggle history and cultural history of various races in the United States in a simple way with a large number of historical facts and figures, including Irish, German, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, China, Mexican, black, Puerto Rican and so on. ?

As we all know, America is a melting pot of world culture. Every race has its own inherent characteristics, including genetic and cultural characteristics. Compared with other races, these inherent attributes also make it stand out in the environment where many races coexist.

5. Cambridge American History

This book was written by Susan-Mary Grant and published by Xinxing Publishing House.

In A Brief History of American Race, the author tells the struggle history and cultural history of various races in the United States in a simple way with a large number of historical facts and figures, including Irish, German, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, China, Mexican, black, Puerto Rican and so on.

As we all know, America is a melting pot of world culture. Every race has its own inherent characteristics, including genetic and cultural characteristics. Compared with other races, these attributes also make them stand out in an environment where many races coexist.

Compared with the people around them, people who are willing to come to the United States far from their motherland are more enterprising and more active in facing difficulties, so their prominent racial characteristics are more obvious.

Although personality or way of thinking depends largely on people's class, it still shows many common qualities necessary for success, such as attaching importance to education, diligence, positivity and attaching importance to the transmission of experience, which are applicable to all industries.

In the United States, the only way out for racial success is to give full play to traditional advantages and make unremitting adaptation and improvement. The richest Jews and Japanese in the United States today are full practitioners of this experience.

This book was published in the United States by 198 1, and it has been 30 years now. American racial history has a connotation that transcends race itself. The detailed data, analysis and opinions on ethnic characteristics in the book are still out of date, which is of great significance to China with increasingly diversified economy and culture.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Americans: Founding Experience

Baidu Encyclopedia-A Brief History of America

Baidu Encyclopedia-American History and Culture