070354 VO Lecture Course - U.S. History since 1865 (2019S)
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Language: English
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Monday
25.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
Monday
06.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
Wednesday
08.05.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 1 Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 1 Hof 1
Monday
13.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
Wednesday
15.05.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 1 Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 1 Hof 1
Monday
20.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
Wednesday
22.05.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 1 Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 1 Hof 1
Monday
27.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
Wednesday
29.05.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 1 Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 1 Hof 1
Monday
03.06.
13:15 - 14:45
Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
Wednesday
05.06.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 1 Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 1 Hof 1
Wednesday
12.06.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 1 Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 1 Hof 1
Monday
17.06.
13:15 - 14:45
Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
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written exam
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Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States (New York: W.W. Norton, 2018); Bernd Stoever, United States of America: Geschichte und Kultur: Von der ersten Kolonie bis zur Gegenwart (München: CH Beck 2013); Michael H. Hunt, The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2009) Jeffrey A. Engel/Mark Atwood Lawrence/Andrew Preston, eds., America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2014)
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MA Geschichte: VO aus Geschichte PM 4 (4 ECTS)
MA Globalgeschichte: VO Vertiefung 1 (4 ECTS)
MA Globalgeschichte: VO Vertiefung 1 (4 ECTS)
Last modified: Th 05.09.2019 12:27
Students will study the rise of the United States towards world power status and discuss the issue whether the U.S. can be considered a traditional „empire“. Issues such as the growing American military presence in the world after World War II, the cost of American „empire“, the „Americanization“ of the world and the negative reactions American hegemonic statues produced (anti-Americanism). We will also study the principal issue of political economy (American free market capitalism, Fordism, Taylorism), the history of immigration to the U.S., the status of minorities and civil rights social movements.
The principal method will be both lectures and class discussion of principal themes through the use of primary sources.