第四部分進一步閱讀書目(第3/4頁)

關於阿拉伯—以色列沖突,中立的論述似乎仍然是不可能的,但是Sydney D.Bailey,Four Arab-Israeli Wars and the Peace Process(Bastingstock,UK,1990);J.C.Hurewitz,The Struggle for Palestine,rev.ed.(New York,1978)和Ian Lustick,Arabs in the Jewish State:Israils Control of a National Minority(Austin,Tex.,1980),作了嘗試。關於針鋒相對的觀點,見Lawrence A.Hoffman,ed.,The Land of Israel:Jewish Perspectives(Notre Dame,Ind.,1986)與Edward W.Said,The Question of Palestine(New York,1980)。

關於伊朗1979年革命,見Nikki R.Keddie,Roots of Revolution:An Interpretive History of Modern Iran(New Haven,Conn.,1981);Roy P.Mottahedeh,The Mantle of the Prophet:Religion and Politics in Iran(New York,1985);和James A.Bill, The Eagle and the Lion:The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations (New Haven,Conn.,1988)。關於伊拉克,見Phoebe Marr,The Modern History of Iraq(Boulder,Col.,1985);Mario Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett,Iraq since1958:From Revolution to Dictatorship(London,1990);和Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi,Saddam Hussein:A Political Biography(New York,1991)。

關於土耳其:Niyazi Berkes,The Development of Secularism in Turkey(Montreal,1964);Walter F.Weiker,The Modernization of Turkey:From Ataturk to the Present Day(New York,1981);和C.H.Dodd,The Crisis of Turkish Democracy,2nd ed.(Huntingdon,Cal.,1990),討論了一個世俗政權的成功和重重困難。關於埃及現代史,見Arthur E.Goldschmidt,Jr., Modern Egypt:The Formation of a Nation State(Boulder,Col.,1988);Panayiotis J.Vatikiotis,The History of Modern Egypt,from Muhammad Ali to Mubarak,4th ed.(Baltimore,Md.,1991);和Derek Hopwood,Egypt:Politics and Society,1945~1990,3rded.(London,1991)。

印度和東南亞。對印度歷史的最好介紹是A.L.Basham,A Cultural History of India(Oxford,1975)。關於社會經濟史,試試Dharma Kumar ed.,The Cambridge Economic History of India,Vol.2,1757~1970 (Cambridge,1983)。關於英國的殖民統治,見Penderel Moon,British Conquest and Dominion of India(London,1989);和L.S.S.OMalley,ed.,Modern India and the West:A Study of the Interaction of Their Civilizations(London,1968)。兩部著名的小說比許多歷史學著作更深刻地揭露了英國統治下的印度:E.M.Forster,A Passage to India(London,1924);和Rudyard Kipling,Kim(London,1901)。Mohandas K.Gandhi,The Story of My Experiments with Truth(Boston,1957);和Jawaharlal Nehru,Towards Freedom:The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru(New York,1941)是現代獨立印度兩位主要締造者的深刻有力的敘述。由於印度很可能超越中國而成為全球人口最多的國家,所以Tim Dyson,ed.,Indias Historical Demography:Studies in Famine,Disease and Society(London,1989),是特別有趣的著作。關於東南亞,David J.Steinberg,In Search of Southeast Asia:A Modern History,rev.ed.(Honolulu,Hi.,1987)是一本非常好的入門讀物。

遠東。3部傑出的中國現代史通論著作是:John J.Fairbank,China:A New History(Cambridge,1992);Immanuel C.Y.Hsu,The Rise of Modern China,4th ed(New York,1990);和Jonathan D.Spence, The Search for Modern China(New York,1990)。帶有現代中美關系特色的涉及傳教、商業和意識形態方面的綜合著作是John J.Fairbank,The United States and China,4th ed.(Cambridge,Mass.,1983)。關於中國共產主義,見James P.Harrison,The Long March to Power:A History of the Chinese Communist Party,1921~1972(New York,1972);Edgar Snow,Red Star over China(New York,1973)和Ross Terrill, Mao:A Biography(New York,1980)。關於人口,Judith Bannister,Chinas Changing Population(Stanford,Cal.,1978);關於鄉村生活,William L.Parish and Martin K.Whyte,Village and Family in Contemporary China(Chicago,1978)。

關於日本,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),都是適合初學者的概論性優秀著作。適合大學使用的原始史料高級選編是John Livingston,Joe Moore,and Felicia Oldfather,eds.,The Japan Reader, 2 vols.(New York,1973~1974)。關於經濟變遷,見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)。

關於日本的第二次世界大戰的歷史。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),特別具有啟發性。Gordon W.E.Prange,At Dawn We Slept:The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor(New York,1982),是來自交戰雙方的生動而詳細的描述。對太平洋戰爭的優秀而均衡的總結,John Tolland, The Rising Sun(New York,1982)值得推薦。