Textbooks:
- David E. Nye (ed.): Beyond the Crisis in US American Studies: Scandinavian Perspectives (University Press of Southern Denmark, Odense, 2007).
- John Tosh: The Pursuit of History: aims, methods and new directions in the study of history, 6th edition (Routledge, Abingdon, New York, 2015).
- Graeme Turner: British Cultural Studies: An introduction, 3rd edition (Routledge, Abingdon, New Work, 2003).
Historical articles:
- H. T. Dickinson: “Why did the American Revolution not spread to Ireland?”, Valahian Journal of Historical Studies, issue: 18-19 / 2012-2013, pp. 155-180.
- Philippa Levine: “Naked Truths: Bodies, Knowledge, and the Erotics of Colonial Power”, Journal of British Studies, 52 (January, 2013), 5-25.
- Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman: “The Relative Efficiency of Slavery: A Comparison of Northern and Southern Agriculture in 1860”, Explorations in Economic History, 1971, Vol.8 (3), pp. 353-367.
- Richard B. Sher: “Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Problem of National Defense”, the Journal of Modern History, Vol. 61, no. 2 (June, 1989), pp. 240-268.
Articles:
(Available in Fronter, or via link)
- Linda Colley, “Britishness and Otherness: An Argument”, Journal of British Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, ‘Britain and Europeanness: Who are the British Anyway?’ (Oct. 1992), pp. 309-329.
- Andrew Hartman: “The Present and Future of American Intellectual History”, Society for U.S. Intellectual History, April 3 2010: http://s-usih.org/2012/04/present-and-future-of-american.html
- Rob Kroes: “American Empire and Cultural Imperialism: A View from the Receiving End”, Diplomatic History, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Summer 1999), pp. 463-477.
- Jeremy Paxman: “What Empire did for Britain”, The Daily Telegraph (2 Oct. 2011).
- Robert T. Tally Jr.: “’Believing in America’: The Politics of American Studies in a Postnational Era”, http://www.roberttally.com/uploads/4/9/4/0/4940675/believing_in_america.pdf http://www.roberttally.com/uploads/4/9/4/0/4940675/believing_in_america.pdf http://www.roberttally.com/uploads/4/9/4/0/4940675/believing_in_america.pdfhttp://www.roberttally.com/uploads/4/9/4/0/4940675/believing_in_america.pdf
- Alan Trachtenberg: The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age, Chapter 04: Mysteries of the Great City (Hill and Wang, New York, 1982). Excerpts from the text to be specified by the course teacher: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/incorp/text/ch04.html