Resource link:
Link:/s/17 itc06zj3p193v _ ykqmjha
Extraction code: 6023 Title: Modern World History (photocopy number 10)
Author: [America] R.R Palmer
Douban score: 9.4
Press: World Book Publishing Company Houlang Publishing Company
Publication year: 20 14- 1
Page number: 13 12
Content introduction:
Temples and Academic Textbooks in Modern World History
Generations of scholars all over the world look at history through his eyes.
The Modern History of the World, written by Palmer and others, has been regarded as a court-level academic history textbook since it was published in early 1950. In more than 60 years, the author of this book has been constantly revised and published until the 10 edition. Its sales volume has been among the best of its kind, and it is the longest, most widely read and most influential American world history textbook for more than half a century.
This book is rich in content and covers a wide range of fields. It expounds the historical events of the rise of modern Europe in more than one million words. The author thinks that the once unknown Europe (or the West) has led to the emergence of global political, economic, military and scientific and technological systems for more than 500 years since the16th century.
As a work combining traditional narrative with structural analysis, the author gives a concise and vivid explanation of social history, cultural history and religious history while focusing on the evolution of politics and system. The book runs through the author's humanistic care and realistic feelings. From time to time, you can see the spark of thought and wise expression, which makes reading this book a wonderful ideological journey.
The concept of "modernization" replacing the concept of "westernization" is not only a rhetorical issue, but also a revision and breakthrough of the "Westernization" viewpoint that has obviously turned to observe the modern world in western modern history works since the 1970s. Here, I'd like to especially recommend The Modern History of the World, co-authored by the famous American historians R.R. Palmer and kolton. One of the main features of this book is to observe the recent progress of world history from a new perspective of "modernization" with the formation of "modern world" as the main line.
—— Luo Rongqu (1927 —— 1996), a famous historian, was a pioneer in China's modernization research.
Constant innovation needs different viewpoints to provide readers with different frames of reference. This book provides readers with a very popular view in American history today. Advantages and disadvantages can provide a frame of reference for China's world history research and knowledge, rather than just providing some relevant knowledge to ordinary readers.
-He Zhaowu, a famous translator and scholar of ideological and cultural history.
The modern history of the world is not a diagram of modernization theory, but an excellent historical narrative. History is always richer and more vivid than theory. At present, some grand narratives often abandon the tradition of historical narration, while modern world history combines diachronic narration with major topics, and reasonably combines the three levels of events, situations and structures mentioned by French scholar Braudel. It is not difficult for readers to find that the book is not only good at contact and comparison, but also has a broad vision and reveals mysteries in historical details.
-Professor Liu Beicheng of Tsinghua University History Department.
There is no doubt that Palmer's latest edition is still one of the best introductory textbooks on world history on the market.
-George j Kyle Poirot and David j Plocque of tufts university.
A remarkable feature of their works lies in their writing, clarity and beauty.
-Nathaniel Green, Wesleyan University
It can be used as the first and last book recommended to students majoring in history, and such works are rare in any field. Modern world history is such a masterpiece.
-Amazon online bookstore reader comments
About the author:
R.R. Palmer (R.R. Palmer, 1909-2002), a famous American historian, received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1934, 1936- 1977 successively at Princeton University, University of Washington and. As an authority on the study of the French Revolution and a pioneer in the comparative study of the American and French revolutions, Palmer has successively served as the president of the French History Research Society (196 1) and the American Historical Society (1970), and is also an active member of the American Philosophy Society and the American Academy of Arts, and has been awarded honorary degrees by many universities in Europe and America. 1990, Palmer was awarded the Feltrinelli Prize by the Italian Linchenko Academy.
This book is Palmer's masterpiece. In addition, he also wrote/kloc-Catholics and unbelievers in France in the 8th century (1939) and the era of democratic revolution: the political history of America and Europe (1959).
Joel kolton, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1950- 1989 teaches in the history department of Duke University. He is the chairman of Rockefeller Humanities Scholarship and Research Program, and a member of American Academy of Arts, Guggenheim Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation.
Lloyd Kramer, Ph.D., Cornell University, Professor of History Department, University of North Carolina, Adjunct Professor of Stanford University and Cornell University.
presenter
Luo Rongqu (1927 ——1996), a famous historian, was the director of Peking University World Modernization Research Center. The representative work "A New Theory of Modernization-The Modernization Process of the World and China" can be regarded as the foundation work for studying modernization theory and China's modernization process.
He Zhaowu (1921-) is a famous translator, a scholar of ideological and cultural history, and a professor at Tsinghua University Institute of Ideological and Cultural Studies.
Liu Beicheng, Professor of Tsinghua University History Department, Editor-in-Chief of World History, and Deputy Secretary-General of the World Society of Modern History.