Main group 1

American History

• Holsti, Ole R, To see ourselves as others see us: how publics abroad view the United States after 9/11, 2008Compulsory*
• De Grazia, Victoria, Irresistible empire: America's advance through twentieth-century Europe, Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005Compulsory*
• Tyrrell, Ian R., Transnational nation: United States history in global perspective since 1789, Second edition., New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Compulsory*
• "American Exceptionalism", Part of: SAGE encyclopedia of political behavior, First edition., Thousand Oaks, California, SAGE Publications, Inc., [2017], p. 24–27Compulsory*
• Deneen, Patrick J., "Cities of Man on a Hill", Part of: American Political Thought, vol. 1, no. 1, 2012Compulsory*

Eric Foner. What Is American Exceptionalism?: https://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2013/what-is-american-exceptionalism/

American Exceptionalism: The History of an Idea: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/episode-054-john-d-wilsey-american-exceptionalism-the-history-of-an-idea/

Photocopied material.

American Politics

• Frey, William H., Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America, Brookings Institution Press, 2014Compulsory*
• McClain, âCan We All Get Along?â, Taylor & Francis, 2018Compulsory*
• Putnam, Robert D., Our kids: the American dream in crisis, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2015Compulsory*

American Mass Media

The course reading is compiled in a compendium supplied by the department.

American 20th-Century Literature

• Williams, Tennessee; Browne, E. Martin, A streetcar named desire, [New ed.], London, Penguin, 2009Compulsory*
• Lee, Harper, To kill a mockingbird, London, Vintage, 2004Compulsory*
• Morrison, Toni, Beloved, London, Vintage Books, 2005Compulsory*
• Villanueva, Tino, Scene from the movie Giant, 1. ed., Willimantic, CT, Curbstone Press, 1993Compulsory*
• Foer, Jonathan Safran, Everything is illuminated, Penguin Books Ltd., 2003Compulsory*
• Hamid, Mohsin, The reluctant fundamentalist, [New ed.], London, Penguin, 2008Compulsory*

Ginsburg, Allen. "Howl", "A Supermarket in California", "America" (handout)

Cisneros, Sandra. "Never Marry a Mexican" (handout)

* Compulsory