1998年9月,中国人民大学出版社出版了李世安同志的著作《世界当代史》,这是我国第一部普通高等教育“九五”国家教委重点教材,教育部“面向21世纪课程教材”。这部著作所叙述的内容,时间跨度逾半个世纪,从立论的观点到征引的资料和研讨的方法都比较新。正如作者在本书前言中提? In September 1998, the publishing house of Renmin University of China published Comrade Li Shian’s book Contemporary History of the World, which is the key textbook of the Ninth Five-year State Education Commission of China’s first general higher education. The Ministry of Education’s “Textbook for the 21st Century” . The content described in this book has spanned more than half a century, from the point of view of arguments to the information it solicits and the methods of discussion. As the author mentioned in the foreword of this book?