世界の歴史教科書はアメリカをどう描いているか History Lessons : How Textbooks from around the World Portray America

Lindaman, Dana/ Ward, Kyle

The New Press（2004/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 432 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781565848948
• DDC分類 973

基本説明

英語初出多数。「キューバ危機」についての米露・キューバの相違など、自己中心史観の相対化に資する書。貴重な北朝鮮の教科書抜粋含む。
Includes textbook selections from: China, France, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Mexico, North Korea, Egypt, Cuba, Great Britain, South Africa, Iran, and India.

Full Description

"History Lessons" offers a light-hearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of widespread attention when it was first published in 2004, this book gives a glimpse into classrooms across the globe, where opinions about the United States are first formed. Heralded as "timely and important" ("History News Network"), "History Lessons" includes sections from Russia, France, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Canada and others, covering such events as the American Revolution, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iran hostage crisis, and the Korean War - providing an alternative history of the United States from the Viking Explorers to the post-Cold War era. By juxtaposing starkly contrasting versions of the historical events, "History Lessons" affords us a sometimes hilarious, often sobering look at what the world learns about America's past.