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This lecture will give an overview over American history from a cultural studies point of view. Guiding concerns will be main currents of thought and ideology, the changing gender roles, the successive media revolutions, the changing landscape, science and technology. The lecture will keep to the time-honored period markers in order to give students some orientation. Headings will be 1492: the conquest of America; The City upon a Hill: the Puritan experiment; The Age of Reason/Age of Revolutions; Sentimentalism and the Reform Age; American Renaissance; Slavery and Emancipation; Realism and Science; The Gilded Age and Naturalism; Modernism; Harlem Renaissance; Counterculture and Postmodernism; Postcolonialism and Cyberculture.You do not need to sign up for this lecture! Reading:Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation. A Concise History of the American People. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.An additional reader with concise material for each session will be available by October at Sprintout, Georgenstraße, S-Bahn Bogen 190.Course Requirements:Klausur (in connection with the the other class in the Modul) |
