Composante
LITTERATURE FRANCAISE ET COMPAREE, ETUDES ANGLOPHONES, HISTOIRE, ETUDES IBERIQUES ET LATINO AMERICAINES
Volume horaire TD
1,5
Nombre de semaines
13
Discipline rare
Non
Description et objectifs
This course presents the spectacular growth of the US superpower and its contradictions following the Civil War. It will focus on the war and Reconstruction, the westward expansion and the drive toward imperialism, the Gilded Age and the related social claims for reform, the birth of a new American way of life.
Syllabus
Manuel obligatoire :
Norton, Mary Beth (et al.). A People and a Nation: A History of the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, fourth edition, 1996.