Exploring History and Theory

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Überblickswerke/Handbücher etc.

  • Kulturgeschichten:

U.S.A.:

Barney, William. Ed. A Companion to 19th-Century America. New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2006.

Foner, Eric. Give Me Liberty! An American History. Vol. 1 and 2. New York: W.W.Norton, 2004.

Halttunen, Karen. Ed. A Companion to American Cultural History. New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2008.

Vickers, Daniel. Ed. A Companion to Colonial America. New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2006.

Whitfield, Stephen J. Ed. A Companion to 20th-Century America. New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2007.

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  • Literaturgeschichten:

U.S.A.:

Lauter, Paul et al. Ed. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Vols. A-E. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005-.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Ed. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. New York: W.W.Norton, 1996.

Greil, Marcus and Werner Sollors. Eds. A New Literary History of America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2009.

Zapf, Hubert. Ed. Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte. 2nd Ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2004.

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  • Cultural History: P. Burke, "Unity and Variety in Cultural History"(?)

Early Modern

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Theory:

Greenblatt, Stephen. "Towards a Poetics of Culture." The New Historicism. Ed. H. Aram Veeser. London: Routledge, 1989. 1-14.

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  • Weiteres:
From the "Middle Ages" to the "Early Modern" Period (Parliament, Economy, Origins of the Modern State, Religious Conflicts, the Age of Discoveries, the English Civil War, the English Republic, Restoration, the Glorious Revolution), "Renaissance"
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Modernities

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Theory:

Butler, Judith. "Imitation and Gender Insubordination." Literary Theory. An Anthology. Eds. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. New York: Blackwell, 1998.

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  • Weiteres:
UK timeline? constitutional monarchy, the Act of Treaty of Union, "Enlightenment," "Victorianism," "Industrial Revolution," Slave Trade, the American War, the second British Empire/Empire of the Seas; 20th century: WWI, Irish partition, Inter-war period, WWII, welfare state, Common Market, Thatcher Era, New Labour
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Global

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  • Sekundärtexte:

Stuart Hall, "The West and the Rest"

Theory:

Edward Said. Orientalism. (1978) Ashcroft et al., The Empire Writes Back Arjun Appadurai, Disjuncture and Difference (?)

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  • Weiteres/Key Aspects:
Empire Building and the New World, from the Second British Empire to the Commonwealth
Globalization, Americanization, Cultural Imperialism
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