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Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Axel Schäfer
Veranstaltungsart:
Übung
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Cultural Studies IV
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: CS IV AS
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
This module seeks to engage students in a critical and analytical look at crucial themes in America's domestic development from the Progressive Era to the end of the Cold War. It offers a diversity of perspectives and will equip students with the basic historical tools for more detailed investigation. Particular emphasis will be put on the impact of war on society, the growth of the state, economic change, social movements, cultural transformations, and political realignments. Among the key themes to be discussed are the emergence of modernity, including urbanization, secularization, technology, and new media; the rise of both cultural pluralism and reactionary modernism; the transition from producer to consumer capitalism; the rise of big business and “big labor”; state-building and the politics of economic growth; the shift from an industrial to a postindustrial economy; and the changes in gender and race relations.
Inhalt:
INDICATIVE STUDY PROGRAM
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Writing the Twentieth Century
Week 3: The Progressive Era and the Origins of Modern America
Week 4: No class (public holiday)
Week 5: World War I and its Aftermath
Week 6: The1920s: Culture, Society, Politics
Week 7: No class (public holiday)
Week 8: The Great Depression
Week 9: The New Deal
Week10: World War II and the Postwar Era
Week 11: Cold War Society and Culture
Week 12: Race and American Society at Mid-Century
Week 13: The Great Society, the New Left, and the Politics of the 1960s
Week 14: Economic Change and Social Conflict in the US since the 1970s
Empfohlene Literatur:
The following title will be the texbook for this course:
Gerstle, Gary et al. America Transformed: A History of the United States Since 1900 (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1999).
Other useful boks for background reading include:
Boyer, Paul S. Promises to Keep: The United States Since World War II
Chafe, William. The Unfinished Journey: America Since WWII
Fraser, Steve, and Gary Gerstle, eds. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980
Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
Hamby, Alonzo. The Imperial Years: The U.S. Since 1939
Leuchtenburg, William. In the Shadow of FDR: from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton
Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States 1945-1974
Polenberg, Richard. One Nation Divisible: Class, Race and Ethnicity in the United States since 1938
Sherry, Michael S. In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s
Sitkoff, Harvard, ed. Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
Susman, Warren. Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the 20th Century
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