Università Roma Tre

Il corso offre una lettura approfondita della società e della politica americana in prosettiva nazionale e transnazionale tra il XX e il XXI secolo. Il corso si svolge interamente in inglese.

REQUIRED READINGS:
Joshua Freeman, American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000 (New York: Penguin, 2013).

Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform (New York: Vintage, 1955) (or any later edition).

The Constitution of the United States of America. http://archives.gov/exhibits/charters/ constitution.html

For the in class discussion and presentations, students can choose one among the following six essays:

Thomas Bender, “The Boundaries and Constituencies of History,” American Literary History, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Summer, 2006), pp. 267-282 + “Global History and Bounded Subjects: A Response to Thomas Bender” by Peter Fritzsche, American Literary History, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Summer, 2006), pp. 283-287

David Ekblad , “Meeting the Challenge from Totalitarianism: The Tennessee Valley Authority as a Global Model for Liberal Development, 1933–1945,” International History Review, 32 (March 2010), pp. 47–67.

John Higham, “The Future of American History,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 80, No. 4 (Mar., 1994), pp. 1289-1309

David A. Hollinger, “How Wide the Circle of the "We"? American Intellectuals and the Problem of the Ethnos since World War II,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 2 (Apr., 1993), pp. 317-337.

Hilde E. Restad, “Old Paradigms in History Die Hard in Political Science: US Foreign Policy and American Exceptionalism,” American Political Thought, Vol. 1, No. 1 (May 2012), pp. 53-76.

Thomas W. Zeiler, “The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 95, No. 4 (Mar., 2009), pp. 1053-1073.


RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Bacevich, Andrew, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Belmonte, Laura, Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).

Bender, Thomas, A Nation among Nations: America’s Place in the World (New York: Hill and Wang, 2006).

Borstelmann, Thomas The Cold War and the Color Line (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
2003).

de Grazia, Victoria, Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe,
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005).

Gerstle, Gary, American Crucible: Race and Nationalism in the Twentieth Century (Princeton
University Press, 2001).

Hunt, Michael, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1987).

Jackson Lears, T., Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America (New York: Harper Colins, 2010).

Kennedy, David M., Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929- 1945 (Oxford History of the United States) (Oxford University Press, 2001).

Perlstein, Rick, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015).

Rodgers, Daniel, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (New York: Belknap, 2000).

Trachtenberg, Alan, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007).