战后美国简史(英文版)

    鲍乐文的这本《战后美国简史(英文版)》以时间发展为脉络，从杜鲁门一直说到奥巴马，结合历任总统执政时期的社会背景，点评历任总统的性格特征以及大政方略等，进而把二战后美国政治、经济、文化的全貌展现在读者面前，让读者了解真正意义上的美国梦。

     Postwar America is an up-to-datehistory of the United States from the presidency of Harry Truman atthe end of World War II to the presidency of Barack Obama today. Bytaking an interdisciplinary approach, Professor Paul Levinecombines political, social and cultural history to explore Americanlife during the last seven decades. Among the themes he discussesare: racism and mulficulturalism;civil rights and civil society;the Cold War and Soft Power; immigration and the American Dream.Postwar America is a distillation of lectures Paul Levine deliveredat two Fulbright-sponsored seminars for Chinese postgraduatestudents held at Shantou University and Beijing Foreign StudiesUniversity in 2009 and 2010. The lectures have been revised toserve as a general introduction for all Chinese universitystudents. Paul Levine is Professor Emeritus in American Literatureat Copenhagen University and a former Fulbright Professor at EastChina Normal University.

     Paul Levine is Emeritus Professor ofAmerican Literature at Copenhagen University. He was born inBrooklyn, New York,and attended Wesleyan and Princeton Universitiesbefore receiving a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilizationfrom Harvard.Levine taught at Wesleyan, Rochester and York(Toronto) Universities before becoming the first Professor ofAmerican Literature in Copenhagen (1975-2006). He also held theSalgo Chair in American Studies at Eotvos Lorand University inBudapest (1986-9) and directed the Athens American Studies Seminarfor fifteen years (1994-2009). Professor Levine publishes widely onliterature, art, film and culture. He collaborated with E. L.Doctorow on a volume of the novelisfs Screenplays (Johns HopkinsUniversity Press, 2003) and a new edition of America Since 1945:The American Moment,(with Harry Papasotiriou) was published byPalgrave in 2011. He has twice received royal honors in Denmark andholds the title of Ridder af Dannebrogorden, 1st Kl. (2000).Professor Levine first went to China in 2001 at the invitation ofthe U.S. State Department to help create a graduate program inAmerican Studies at East China Normal University. In 2004 he wasawarded a Fulbright Professorship at ECNU for three semesters. In2005 ECNU granted him the title of Guest Professor. After retiringfrom Copenhagen in 2006, he served as director of regional studiesand the new Center for International Studies (2007-11) at ShantouUniversity. He and his wife, Lily Varidald-Levine, now live inCopenhagen and Athens.

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