本书五十多万字,二十个单元,每单元三篇课文:通史、论文和原始资料。课文由短语、专有名称、注释、课文理解和翻译等部分组成。*后有翻译练习参考答案。其目的是培养学生具备利用英文原版史料进行科研的能力,并为之进行国际学术交流打下英语听说基础。
本教材共二十个单元六十篇课文,均选自西方历史学家和政治家的英文原版名著、英译名著、政府文件及其他原始档案。本教材特点如下:将中国史专业英语和世界史专业英语相结合,将本科生与研究生的专业英语相结合,在以培养史料阅读和理解能力为主的基础上使读、写、听、译的教学相结合。

Unit One Greco-Roman Civilization
Unit Two Claassical Civilization of China
Unit Three Great Three Religions
Unit Four The Chinese Empire Opening to the World
Unit Five The Flowering of Traditional China
Unit Six Italian Renaissance
Unit Seven Absorption of Nomadic Civilization into Agricultural
Unit Eight The Empire Trying to Be "Blue China"
Unit Nine Religious Reform
Unit Ten Iberian Expansion
Unit Eleven The Last Dynasty of China's Dynastic Circle
Unit Twelve Three Bourgeois Revolutions
Unit Thirteen Industrial Revolution
Unit Fourteen The Semi-Colnial and Semi-Feudalist China
Unit Fifteen The Meiji Restoration of Japan
Unit Sixteen Two World Wars
Unit Seventeen Russian Revolution of 1917
Unit Eighteen The Rise of Modern China
Unit Nineteen The Cold War
Unit Twenty China on the Way to a Rich Power
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