我国研究美国史的专家黄绍湘教授,以六十多岁高龄,倾多年心力,写成了六十多万字的新著《美国通史简编》(以下称《简编》),最近已由人民出版社出版。这是八十年代第一春美国史研究园地上开放的一朵鲜花。《简编》距她的前著《美国简明史》(以下称《简明史》)出版已相隔二十七年。这二十七年,对一位孜孜不倦地做学问的老学者来说,既有欢乐,也有忧伤。前著《简明史》完成于建国初期。作者自己说,“是一个尝试”:尝试着运用马克思列宁主义的观点和方法,采用当时美国的一些新史学家,如威廉·福斯特、菲利浦·丰纳、詹姆斯·艾伦、赫伯特·阿普特克等人的论点来分析和阐 Professor Huang Shaoxiang, an expert on American history in our country, wrote a new book entitled “Brief History of the General History of the United States” (the “Compendium of General History of the United States”), written by more than 60 years of age and exerted many years of effort, which was recently published by People’s Publishing House. This is a flower open to the American history research park in the first spring of the 1980s. The compendium was twenty-seven years past the publication of the Concise American History (hereinafter abbreviated as Concise History). For twenty-seven years, to an old scholar who tirelessly studies knowledge, there is both joy and sorrow. Before the “concise history” completed in the early days of the founding. The author himself said that “it was a try”: trying to apply the Marxist-Leninist views and methods and adopting some of the new American historians of the time like William Foster, Philip Fenner, James Allen, Bert Aptek and others to analyze and clarify the arguments