American Studies

American Studies: A Source Book is designed for students who live outside the United States. Using a variety of historical and literary documents, supplemented by maps, charts and photographs, it covers six themes that are part of any American Studies course: the creation of the Americans as a distinct people, the invention of its political system, the ambiguity of its class distinctions, the interplay of ethnicity, race and gender, the twentieth centry redefinition of the U.S. as a world power, the imagination of America as a new kind of space.