American Studies B

Main group 1

Global American History

• Gabaccia, Donna R., Foreign relations: American immigration in global perspective, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, c2012Compulsory* (Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Hoganson, Kristin L., The heartland: an American history, New York, Penguin Books, 2020Compulsory*
• Holsti, Ole R, To see ourselves as others see us: how publics abroad view the United States after 9/11, 2008Compulsory* (E-book through UUB.)
• Immerwahr, Daniel, How to Hide an Empire: a Short History of the Greater United States, London, The Bodley Head, 2019Compulsory*

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Current Issues in American Politics

• Briggs, Laura, How all politics became reproductive politics: from welfare reform to foreclosure to Trump, Oakland, University of California Press, [2017]Compulsory*
• Denvir, Daniel., All-American Nativism, Verso Books, 2020Compulsory*
• Desmond, Matthew, Poverty, by America, [London], Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023Compulsory*
• Alba, Richard D., The great demographic illusion: majority, minority, and the expanding American mainstream / Richard Alba, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Excerpts. Digitally available or provided by teacher.)
• Grossmann, Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2024Compulsory*
• Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, Abolition geography: essays towards liberation, London, Verso, 2023Compulsory*
• Marietta, Morgan; Barker, David C., One nation, two realities: dueling facts in American democracy, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2019Compulsory* (Excerpts. Digitally available or provided by teacher.)
• Schlozman, Daniel; Rosenfeld, Sam, The hollow parties: the many pasts and disordered present of American party politics, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, [2024]Compulsory*
• Sides, John, The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy / John Sides, Lynn Vavreck, Chris Tausanovitch, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Ziegler, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2020Compulsory*

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Memory and Heritage in American Culture

• Bruyneel, Kevin, Settler memory: the disavowal of indigeneity and the politics of race in the United States, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, [2021]Compulsory*
• Cox, Karen L., No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Gordon, Tammy S., The Spirit of 1976: Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Janney, Caroline E., Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, The University of North Carolina Press, 2013Compulsory*
• Landsberg, Alison, Engaging the past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge / Alison Landsberg, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Lepore, Jill, The whites of their eyes: the Tea Party's revolution and the battle over American history, Princeton, Princeton University Press, cop. 2010Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Melish, Joanne, "Recovering (from) Slavery: Four Struggles to Tell the Truth", Part of: Slavery and public history [electronic resource]: the tough stuff of American memory / edited by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Savage, Kirk, Monument wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the transformation of the memorial landscape, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, University of California Press, 2011Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Sturken, Marita, Tourists of history: memory, kitsch, and consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero, Durham, Duke University Press, 2007Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)

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Current Research in American Studies

• Chakrabarty, D, The Climate of History: Four Theses., Part of: Critical inquiry., vol. 35, no. 2, 2009, p. 197–222Compulsory*
• Gould, Stephen Jay, The Golden Rule: A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis, Part of: The Earth Around Us: Maintaining A Livable Planet / Jill Schneiderman, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• LeMenager, Stephanie, Petro-Melancholia, Part of: Qui parle: critical humanities and social sciencesCompulsory*
• Patel, Raj, A history of the world in seven cheap things: a guide to capitalism, nature, and the future of the planet / Jason W. Moore, Raj Patel, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt, The mushroom at the end of the world [electronic resource]: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Whyte, Kyle Powys, On the Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as a Collaborative Concept, Part of: Ecological processes, https://ecologicalprocesses.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/2192-1709-2-7Compulsory*
• Williams, Raymond, Problems in materialism and culture: selected essays, London, Verso, cop. 1980Compulsory* ("Ideas of Nature", pp. 67–85.)

First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, "Principles of

Environmental Justice," Washington, DC, 1991. Online resource.

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, 2022, https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/.

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* Compulsory