耶鲁美国小历史

This book vividly describes the 500 years' history of the United States from the wild continent to the superpower: from the first violent collision between the Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere to the dependent development between the aborigines and the colonists; from being at daggers drawn over the attempt to eliminate the regional boundaries to balance and coexistence of multi independent cultures with mutual tolerance; from the survival confinement caused by suffering to the ideological awakening triggered by the enlightenment. The seemingly eruptive growth of the United States is just realized in such a free and diverse environment. But in a certain sense, the United States has shown a strange cycle of development: integration accompanies with exclusion while prosperity causally connects with recession.