November 15

 

 

 

GUEST FACULTY MEMBER MATT DENNIS

Journal Reviews Due in Class

This session is the third of three sessions in which members of the history department faculty will come to class to talk about scholarly discussions on nationalism and transnationalism in their specific fields. This week Professor Matt Dennis will focus our thoughts on American history. Although Professor Dennis will offer a few introductory remarks, the bulk of the class discussion is up to you, so come to class prepared to ask questions about the assigned readings, the topics of our class in American history, and other matters of interest to the class.

Reading Assignment:

David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820. University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Suggestions for Further Reading:

*Florencia E. Mallon, Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru.  California, 1995.

*Mark Thurner, From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru.   Duke, 1997.

*Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina.  California, 1991.

*Cecilia Elizabeth O’Leary, To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism.  Princeton University Press, 1999.

*Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture.  Knopf, 1991.

*Philip Deloria, Playing Indian.   Yale University Press, 1998.

*Frederick E. Hoxie, Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America, 1805-1935.  Cambridge University Press, 1995.

*Yossi Shain, Marketing the American Creed Abroad: Diasporas in the U.S. and their Homelands.  Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Gary Gerstle, "Liberty, Cohesion, and the Making of Americans."  Journal of American History 1997 84(2): 524-558, and the essays following it through page 580.

Nicholas DeGenova, "Race, Space, and the Reinvention of Latin America in Mexican Chicago."  Latin American Perspectives 1998 25(5): 87-116.

Wilbur Zelinsky, Nation Into State: The Shifting Symbolic Foundations of American Nationalism.  North Carolina, 1988.

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