美国读本(英语版)

.alexis de tocqueville: social condition of the anglo-americans(from democracy in america) (1835) / 72
ralph waldo emerson: the american scholar (excerpt) (1837) / 81
henry david thoreau: civil disobedience (excerpt) (1848) / 90
b. voices of the disadvantaged 97
elizabeth cady stanton:
the seneca falls declaration of sentiments and resolutions (1848) / 97
frederick douglass: speech at the anti-slavery association (excerpt) (1848) / 103
seattle: the indian's night promises to be dark (1853) / 108
c. causes of the civil war 112
george fitzhugh: cannibals all! or, slaves without masters (excerpt) (1857) / 112
abraham lincoln: the emancipation proclamation (1863) / 117
iii. reconstruction and industrialization: 1865--1900 123
a. the american dream: imagination and faith 123
horatio alger: ragged dick (excerpt) (1867) / 123
walt whitman: democracy (excerpt) (1867) / 131
b. visions of and criticisms about progress 138
thomas alva edison: on the industrial research laboratory (1887) / 138
frederick turner: the significance of the frontier in american history (excerpt) (1893) / 140
thorstein veblen: "conspicuous consumption"(excerpt from the theory of the leisure class) (1899) / 145
john dewey: my pedagogic creed (excerpt) (1897) / 153
iv. the rise of the american age: 1900---1950 161
a. business and entrepreneurialism 161
john wanamaker: on the department store (excerpt) (1900) / 161
frederick winslow taylor: on scientific management (excerpt) (1912) / 166
henry ford: my life and work (excerpt) (1922) / 173
b. the voice of the oppressed 179
w.e.b dubois: the souls of black folks (excerpt) (1903) / 179
"manifesto" of industrial workers of the world (1905) / 185
c. american ideas 191
william james: pragmatism (excerpt) (1907) / 191
woo&ow wilson: the meaning of democracy (1912) /198
h. l. mencken: preface to the american language (1919) / 205
herbert hoover: american individualism (excerpt) (1922) / 209
henry fairchild: the melting-pot mistake (excerpt) (1926) / 214
d. the conquer of fear, a vision of american mission and the will to prevail 220
franklin d. roosevelt: first inaugural address (1933) / 220
henry luce: the american century (excerpt) (1941) / 225
william faulkner: speech on acceptance of the nobel prize (1950) / 230
v. contemporary america: dominance and struggle: 1950---2009 233
a. social criticism and the cold war fanaticism in the fifties 233
david riesman: preface to the lonely crowd (excerpt) (1950)/233
c. wright mills: preface to white collar:the american middle classes (excerpt) (1951) / 238
joseph mccarthy: speech at wheeling, west virginia (excerpt) (1950) / 247
b. the atomized america: the turbulent sixties 252
tom hayden: students for a democratic society: the port huron statement (excerpt) (1962) / 252
martin luther king: letter from the birmingham city jail (excerpt) (1963) / 260
lyndon baines johnson: the great society speech (excerpt) (1965) / 266
betty friedan: our revolution is unique (excerpt) (1968) / 271
c. reclaiming america in the age of the three worlds 279
henry a. kissinger: strengthening the world economic structure (1975) / 279
ronald reagan: farewell address (1988) / 283
d. toward the challenges in the new century 290
michael walzer: what does it mean to be an "american"? (excerpt) (1990) / 290
bill clinton: address before a joint session of congress (excerpt) (1993) / 298
toni morrison: nobel lecture (1993) / 306
george w. bush: speech addressed to the congress about the war against terrorism (2001) / 314
samuel p. huntington: anglo-protestant culture (excerpt from whoare we?) (2003) / 221
barack obama: inaugural address (2009) / 330