HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (c.1776-1945)

Objective :
This Course will give
(i) an account of the Colonization and Settlement of America,
(ii) The American War of Independence , the Features of Constitution
(iii) The rule of Federalists and Republicans, Monroe Doctrine, the Civil War,
(iv) Industrialization, Labour Movements, USA in World War I and II.

Unit-1 1.01: The land and Indigenous People: Settlement and
 Colonization by Europeans
1.02: Revolution: Sources of Conflict, Revolutionary
 groups, Ideology: The War of Independence and
 its Historical Interpretations
1.03: Processes and Features of Constitution Making:
 Debates

Unit-2 2.01: Federalists and Republicans, War of 1812
2.02: Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny

Unit-3 3.01: Abolitionism and Sectionalism: Rise of
 Republicanism, Lincoln and the Civil War
3.02: Reconstruction of the South
3.03: Beginnings of Industrialization

Unit-4 4.01: Growth of Capitalism and Big Business
4.02: Labour Movements and Trade Unions
4.03: Agrarian Crises, Populism and Progressivism

Unit-5 5.01: Spanish-American War 1898
5.02: World War I and Fourteen Points of Woodrow
 Wilson, New Deal Reforms
5.03: USA and World War II

ESSENTIAL READINGS
Baruah, Biswajit, History of USA 1776-1945
Bernard Bailyn, The Great Republic.
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform, From Bryan to FDR
Charles Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the American Constitution.
Peter Carroll and David Noble, Free and Unfree: A New History of the United States.
David B. Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution.
U. Faulkner, American Economic History.
John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom.
David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis.
W. Pratt, A History of the United States Foreign Policy.
James Randail, The Civil War and Reconstruction.
J. G. Randall and David Donald, The Civil War and Reconstruction.
Federick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History.
R.P. Kaushik, Significant Themes in American History.
Richard W. Leopold, The Growth of American Foreign Policy.

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