Postwar America is an up-to-date
來源:香港大書城megBookStore,http://www.megbook.com.hk history of the United States from the presidency of Harry Truman at
the end of World War II to the presidency of Barack Obama today. By
taking an interdisciplinary approach, Professor Paul Levine
combines political, social and cultural history to explore American
life during the last seven decades. Among the themes he discusses
are: 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 delivered
at two Fulbright-sponsored seminars for Chinese postgraduate
students held at Shantou University and Beijing Foreign Studies
University in 2009 and 2010. The lectures have been revised to
serve as a general introduction for all Chinese university
students. Paul Levine is Professor Emeritus in American Literature
at Copenhagen University and a former Fulbright Professor at East
China Normal University.
關於作者:
Paul Levine is Emeritus Professor of
American Literature at Copenhagen University. He was born in
Brooklyn, New York,and attended Wesleyan and Princeton Universities
before receiving a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization
from Harvard.Levine taught at Wesleyan, Rochester and York
Toronto Universities before becoming the first Professor of
American Literature in Copenhagen 1975-2006. He also held the
Salgo Chair in American Studies at Eotvos Lorand University in
Budapest 1986-9 and directed the Athens American Studies Seminar
for fifteen years 1994-2009. Professor Levine publishes widely on
literature, art, film and culture. He collaborated with E. L.
Doctorow on a volume of the novelisfs Screenplays Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2003 and a new edition of America Since 1945:
The American Moment,with Harry Papasotiriou was published by
Palgrave in 2011. He has twice received royal honors in Denmark and
holds the title of Ridder af Dannebrogorden, 1st Kl. 2000.
Professor Levine first went to China in 2001 at the invitation of
the U.S. State Department to help create a graduate program in
American Studies at East China Normal University. In 2004 he was
awarded a Fulbright Professorship at ECNU for three semesters. In
2005 ECNU granted him the title of Guest Professor. After retiring
from Copenhagen in 2006, he served as director of regional studies
and the new Center for International Studies 2007-11 at Shantou
University. He and his wife, Lily Varidald-Levine, now live in
Copenhagen and Athens.
目錄:
1.Harry Truman and the Origins of the Cold War
2.Dwight Eisenhower: An Age of Affluence and Anxiety
3.Martin Luther King: Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs
4.From JFK to LBJL The Liberal Hour
5.Richard Nixon: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
6.Ronald Reagan and the Cycles of American Politics
7.George H.W.Bush and the new World Order
8.Bill Clinton and the Crisis of Civil Society
9.Geroge W.Bush and the Immigration Debate
10.Barack Obama and the New Politics of Race
Recommended Reading
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