Syllabus/achievement requirements

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, 6^th edition (Routledge, Abingdon, New York, 2015).
• Graeme Turner: British Cultural Studies: An introduction, 3^rd edition (Routledge, Abingdon, New Work, 2003).

Articles:

(Available in Canvas, or via link)

• Simon Bronner: ¡®The Death of American Studies¡¯, European journal of American Studies, 13/2 (2018), pp. 1-26.
• 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: https://s-usih.org/2012/04/present-and-future-of-american/
• Rob Kroes: ¡®American Empire and Cultural Imperialism: A View from the Receiving End¡¯, Diplomatic History, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Summer 1999), pp. 463-477.
• J¨¹rgen Kramer and Fran?ois Poirier: ¡®ENBAS ¨C European Network of British Area Studies¡¯ (handout).
• Jeremy Paxman: ¡®What Empire did for Britain¡¯, The Daily Telegraph (2 Oct. 2011): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8801370/Jeremy-Paxman-what-empire-did-for-Britain.html
• 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

Historical example articles:

(Available in Canvas)

• 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, vol. 52 (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, vol.8, no.3 (1971), 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 (1989), pp. 240-268.