第四部分进一步阅读书目(第3/3页)

关于日本,William G.Beasley,The Rise of Modern Japan(New York,1990);Mikiso Hane,Modern Japan:A Historical Survey,2nd ed.(Boulder,Col.,1992);和Edwin O.Reischauer,Japan,The Story of a Nation(New York,1989),都是适合初学者的概论性优秀著作。适合大学使用的原始史料高级选编是John Livingston,Joe Moore,and Felicia Oldfather,eds.,The Japan Reader, 2 vols.(New York,1973~1974)。关于经济变迁,见Johannes Hirschmeier and Tsunehiko Yui,The Development of Japanese Business,1600~1980,2nd ed.(Bostton,1981);G.C.Allen,A Short Economic History of Modern Japan,4th ed.(New York,1981);和Thomas C.Smith,Political Change and Industrial Development in Japan:Government Enterprise(Stanford,Cal.,1974)。

关于日本的第二次世界大战的历史。Thomas R.H.Havens,Valley of Darkness:The Japanese People and the World War II(Lanham,Md.,1986);和John Heresy,Hiroshima(New York,1946),特别具有启发性。Gordon W.E.Prange,At Dawn We Slept:The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor(New York,1982),是来自交战双方的生动而详细的描述。对太平洋战争的优秀而均衡的总结,John Tolland, The Rising Sun(New York,1982)值得推荐。

关于日本社会的特性,Robert J.Smith,Japanese Society:Tradition,Self and the Social Order(Cambridge,1987);和Tadashi Fukutake,Japanese Society Today(Tokyo,1981),分别提供了一种美国观点和日本观点。Joseph M.Kitigawa,Religion in Japanese History(New York,1990);和Irene B.Taeuber,The Population of Japan(Princeton,1958)在各自领域里都是标准之作。

关于朝鲜,Andrew C.Nahm,Korea:Tradition and Transformation:A History of the Korean People(Elizabeth,N.J.,1988);和Donald Stone Macdonald,The Koreans:Contemporary Politics and Society(2nd ed.,Boulder,Col.,1990),是很有用的概论。关于朝鲜战争,Burton Ira Kaufman,The Korean War:Challenges in Crisis,Credibility and Command(Philadelphia,1986);和Bruce Cumings,The Origins of the Korean War,2 vols.(Princeton,1981~1990)是一种美国修正派的论述。

关于越南和美国卷入越南,见Joseph Buttinger,Vietnam:A Dragon Embattled,2 vols.(New York,1967);David Halberstam,The Best and the Brightest(New York,1969);和George C.Hering,Jr.,Americas Longest War:The United States and Vietnam,1950~1975,2nd ed.(Philadelphia,1986)。

拉丁美洲。E.Bradford Burns,Latin America:A Concise Interpretive History,5th ed.(Englewood Cliffs,N.J.,1990);和Thomas E.Skidmore and Peter H.Smith,Modern Latin America,3rded.(New York,1992),是标准的入门书。Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto,Dependency and Development in Latin America(Berkeley,Cal.,1978)认为,拉美被外部资本主义国家所剥削。相反的观点,见Frederick S.Weaver,Class,State and Industrial Structure:The Historical Process of South American Industrial Growth(Westport,Conn.,1980)。拉美历史其他特别的主题被下列著作所探讨:Douglas S.Butterworth and John K.Chance,Latin American Urbanization(New York,1981);Marvin Harris,Patterns of Race in the Americas(New York,1974);Daniel H.Levine,Religion and Political Conflict in Latin America(Chapel Hill,N.C.,1986);Alain Rouquie,The Military and the State in Latin America(Berkeley,Cal.,1987);Leopoldo Zea,The Latin American Mind(Norman,Ok.,1963);和John J.Johnson,A Hemisphere Apart:The foundation of United States Policy toward Latin America(Baltimore,Md.,1990)。