Pensum/l?ringskrav

B?KER:

Mauk and Oakland: American Civilization, An Introduction Fourth Edition, London and New York: Routledge, 2005.

O¡¯Callaghan: An Illustrated History of the USA London: Longman, 200? [last printing] ISBN ¨C 0-852-74921-2

?KOMPENDIUM:

Bernhard-Henri Levy, American Vertigo (New York: Random House, 2006), 173-179.

John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (Athens: Ohio State University Press, 1954), 143-149. [bare kopier]

Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative (Shepherdsville, Ky., Victor Pub. Co., 1960), 12, 34, 64, 71, 114 [bare kopier]

Patricia J. Williams, Seeing a Color-Blind Future (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997), 31-45.

Bread and Roses, ¡°Declaration of Women¡¯s Independence,¡± in Dear Sisters, Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon eds. (New York Basic Books, 2000), 45-47.

American Federation of Teachers, ¡°AFT Resolution on Women¡¯s Rights,¡± in Dear Sisters, Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon eds. (New York Basic Books, 2000), 263.

Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (New York Balantine Books, 1999), 1-15.

Desmond King, Making Americans (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2000), 11-49, 243-253, 270-291.

Edmund Wilson, I Thought of Daisy (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967; originally pub, 1929), 274-286, 303-304 [se kopier i boken]

Van Wyck Brooks, ¡°The Sargasso Sea,¡± from America¡¯s Coming of Age reprinted in Three Essays on America (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970; orig. pub. 1915), 100-112.

Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa (Morrow Quill paperbacks, 1961; orig. pub, 1928), 195-211.

Robert N. Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in the Time of Trial (New York: The Seabury Press, 1975), 3-16, 22-25.

Herbert G. Gutman, Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America (New York: Vinatge Books, 1976), 32-52.

Henry David Thoreau, ¡°Concord River¡± from A Week on the Merrimac and Concord Rivers (Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1906), 2-11.

Demos, John. ¡°Digging Up Family History: Myths, Realities, and Works-in-Progress¡± Jabour, Anya. (ed.) Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children, Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2005, 3-13.

Coontz, Stephanie. ¡°Mythology and History in the Study of the American Family¡± Jabour, Anya. (ed.) Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children, Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2005, 14-23.

Griffith, Robert and Baker, Paula. (ed.). Major Problems in American History Since 1945, 2nd ed., Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2001. ¡°Graphical Illustrations of How to Respond to a Nuclear Attack, 1950.¡± 135-136.

Boyer, Paul. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1992. ¡°Prologue: The Hidden World of Prophecy Belief.¡± 1-18. ¡°United States in Prophecy.¡± 225-253.

Putman, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York, London, Toronto, and Sydney: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. 2001. ¡°Religious Participation.¡± 65-79.

Sobel, Michael. ¡°How Black and White Cultures Merged: Culture as Social Relations,¡± in Holt, Thomas C. (ed.) Major Problems in African-American History Volume I From Slavery to Freedom_, 1619-1877. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2000, 140-156.

Ch. 5 (Excerpts), I (Red) Holt, T.C. & Brown, E.B. Major Problems in African-American History Volume I From Slavery to Freedom, 1619-1877. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2000, 160-162.

Kulikoff, Allan. ¡°How Africans Became African Americans¡± in Holt, Thomas C. (ed.) Major Problems in African-American History Volume I From Slavery to Freedom, 1619-1877, 182-194.

Lapansky, Emma Jones. ¡°The Roots of Resistance in Free Black Communities¡± in Holt, Thomas C. (ed.) Major Problems in African-American History Volume I From Slavery to Freedom, 1619-187, 308-321.

Nader, Ralph. Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile. New York: Grossman Publishers. 1965. ¡°The Stylists: It¡¯s the Curve that Counts.¡± 210-231.

Fishman, Charles. The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World¡¯s Most Powerful Company Really Works ¨C and How It¡¯s Transforming the American Economy. New York: The Penguin Press. 2006. ¡°Wal-Mart and the Descent of Society¡± 219-247.

NORAM 1520 Pensum, del 2

All texts listed below are available at the website American Studies @ University of Virginia

Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull House Chapter 11, ¡°Immigrants and their Children¡±

Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio ¡°Godliness¡±

Crevecouer, J. Hector St. John De. Letters from an American Farmer Letter III: ¡°What is an American?¡±

Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography Part I, pp.1-30 Part II, pp. 4-13 ¡°Chief Events in Franklin¡¯s Life¡±

James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience Lectures IV and V: ¡°The Religion of Healthy Mindedness¡±

Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature Chap 1, ¡°The Spirit of Place¡±

Lippman, Walter. Public Opinion Chapter 15, ¡°The Leaders and the Rank and File¡± Chapter 24, ¡°News, Truth and a Conclusion¡±

Parrington, Vernon Louis, Main Currents in American Thought Volume 2 > Book 1> ¡°The Heritage of Jeffersonianism¡± Volume 2 > Book III > Part 2, > ¡°The Social Mind: The Puritan Conscience individual rather than social¡± Volume 2 > Book III> Part 3 > ¡°Ralph Waldo Emerson¡± Volume 3 > ¡°Introduction: the Great Revolution¡±

Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land Chapter 4 > ¡°Walt Whitman and Manifest Destiny¡± Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America Part I, Chapter 12, ¡°Political Associations in the United States¡± Part I, Chapter 15, ¡°Unlimited Power of the Majority in the United States and its Consequences¡± Part II, Chapter 5, ¡°Of the Use the Americans Make of the Public Associations in Civil Life¡±

Trachtenburg, Alan. The Incorporation of America Ch 2. ¡°Mechanization Takes Command¡±

Turner, Frederick Jackson, The Significance of the Frontier in American History Chapter I

Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Chapter 2, ¡°The Spirit of Capitalism¡±

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