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Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
HSY2240
Modern America: the American people and the United States, 1877-1960s
Tony Wood and others
8 points + Two lectures and one tutorial per week + First semester + Clayton
+ With the permission of the head of the department, intending majors in
English, politics or American studies with a special interest in American
literature, US politics, or other area of American studies may take HSY2230
without having completed a first-year history sequence
Synopsis This subject provides an introduction to the history of the
American people and the United States from the Civil War and Reconstruction to
the 1960s, emphasising social and economic as well as political history.
Attention will be paid to the study of race, gender and the history of
working-class and ethnic minority cultures. Combined with HSY2240 or HSY2360,
this subject is designed to contribute to an understanding of the contemporary
USA and its place in the world. Students will be encouraged to specialise in
the study of aspects of US history which particularly interest them, eg in the
research essay.
Assessment Document exercise (1000 words): 20% + Long essay (3000
words): 40% + Examination (2 hours): 30% + Class participation and attendance:
10%
Prescribed texts
- Bailyn B and others The great republic: A history of the American
people 4th edn, Heath, 1992 or
- Nash G B and others The American people: Creating a nation and a
society 2nd edn, Harper and Row, 1990 or
- Nash G B and others The American people: Creating a nation and a
society Brief edn, Harper Collins, 1992
Recommended texts
- Badger A J The New Deal: the Depression years, 1933-1940 Noonday,
1989
- Daniels R Coming to America: A history of immigration and ethnicity in
American life Harper, 1990
- Evans S Born for liberty: A history of women in America Free Press,
1989
- Ferrell R Woodrow Wilson and World War I Harper Torch, 1985
- Green, H The uncertainty of everyday life, 1915-1945 Harper, 1993
- Kirby J T Rural worlds lost: The American South, 1920-1960 Louisiana
U P, 1987
- McCormick T J America's half century: United States foreign policy in
the Cold War Johns Hopkins U P, 1989
- Polenberg R War and society. The United States, 1941-1945
Lippincott, 1972
- Sitkoff H The struggle for black equality, 1954-1980 Hill and Wang,
1981
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