- Read/revise your course on Britain and the US (all your notes since september 2015)
- Read the two chapters extracted from Eric Foner’s Give Me Liberty, An American History, Norton 2014 :
- The Peculiar Institution
- An Age of Reform
NB : there will be an assessment on these two chapters on day 1 of the course in September 2016.
Recommanded reading
On Britain
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A Social History of England 1851-1990, François Bédarida, Routledge, 1991
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Eighteenth Century Britain, A Very Short Introduction, Paul Lagford, Oxford University Press, 2000
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Nineteenth Century Britain, A Very Short Introduction, Christopher Harvie & H.G.G Matthew, Oxford University Press, 2000
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Twentieth Century Britain, A Very Short Introduction, Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 2000
On the United States of America
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A Concise History of the United States, Andrew Sinclair, Amberley, 2010
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Histoire des États-Unis de 1776 à nos jours, Jacques Portes, Armand Colin, Collection U, 2e édition, 2013