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).
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.
- Jürgen Kramer and Fran?ois Poirier: ‘ENBAS – 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.