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
- Cather, Willa, My Ántonia, [New ed.], New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1995Compulsory
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The great Gatsby, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998Compulsory
- Ginsberg, Allen, Howl and other poems, San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1962Compulsory
- Johnson, James Weldon, The autobiography of an ex-colored man, London, X Press, 1995Compulsory
- McCarthy, Cormac, No country for old men, London, Picador, 2007Compulsory
- Morrison, Toni, The bluest eye., London, Vintage, 1999Compulsory
- West, Nathanael, The day of the locust, London, Grey Walls Press, 1951Compulsory
- Erdrich, Louise, The round house: [a novel], 1. ed., New York, NY, Harper, 2012Compulsory
* Compulsory