American Studies B1
30 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 5EN721
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Nobles, Gregory H., American frontiers: cultural encounters and continental conquest, New York, Hill & Wang, 1998Compulsory
- Stephanson, Anders, Manifest destiny: American expansionism and the empire of right, New York, Hill and Wang, 1996Compulsory
- Horsman, Reginald, Race and manifest destiny: the origins of American racial Anglo-Saxonism, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard U.P., 1981Compulsory
- Greenstein, Fred I., The presidential difference: leadership style from FDR to Barack Obama, 3. ed., Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2009Compulsory
- McKay, David; Houghton, David; Wroe, Andy, Controversies in American politics and society., Oxford, Blackwell, 2002Compulsory
- Zakaria, Fareed., The post-American world: release 2.0, New York, W. W. Norton, c2011Compulsory
- Bennett, W. Lance; Lawrence, Regina G.; Livingston, Steven, When the press fails: political power and the news media from Iraq to Katrina, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago press, 2007Compulsory
- Jones, Alex S., Losing the news: the future of the news that feeds democracy, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009Compulsory
- Rosenberg, Howard; Feldman, Charles S., No time to think: the menace of media speed and the 24-hour news cycle, London, Continuum, 2009Compulsory
- Roth, Henry, Call it sleep., New York, Avon, 1964Compulsory
- Lee, Chang-rae, Native speaker, London, Granta, 1998, c1995Compulsory
- Larsen, Nella, Passing., New York, Collier, 1971Compulsory
- Morrison, Toni, The bluest eye., London, Vintage, 1999Compulsory
- Hemingway, Ernest, The sun also rises, New York, Scribner, [1996]Compulsory
- Díaz, Junot, The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao, London, Faber and Faber, 2008Compulsory
- Faulkner, William, Requiem for a nun., Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1960Compulsory
- Shepard, Sam, True west, New York, Samuel French, Inc., 198?, cop. 1981Compulsory
- DeLillo, Don, The names, 1. ed., New York, Knopf, 1982Compulsory
* Compulsory