American Shelves Project

Introduction to American Studies:
   
Author Title Publisher ISBN Year Price
Richard Horwitz The American Studies Anthology SR Books 0842028293 2001 $39.95

David Mauk American Civilizations: An Introduction Routledge 0415481627 2009 $30.95

Anthologies and basic texts:

Author Title Publisher ISBN Year Price
Nina Baym The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Shorter Seventh Edition), Vol. 1 & 2 W. W. Norton & Company 0393930580 2007 $54.25
Ronald Takaki Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America Back Bay Books 0316022365 2008 $12.23
Christopher Clark, Nancy Hewitt, and Roy Rosenzweig Who Built America : Volume 1 to 1877 Bedford/St. Martin's 0312446918 2007 $43.91
Nelson Lichtenstein, Susan Strasser, Roy Rosenzweig, and Stephen Brier Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's History Bedford/St. Martin's 0312446926 2000 $21.75
John Mack Faragher Out of Many, Combined Volume (6th Edition Prentice Hall 0136149553  $101.46

Classics in the field:
 
Author Title Publisher ISBN Year Price
Henry Nash Smith Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth Harvard University Press 0674939557 2007 $20.95
Jane Tompkins Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 Oxford University Press 0195041194 1986 $38.89
David Roediger The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class Verso 1844671453 2007 $13.57
George Lipsitz American Studies in a Moment of Dandger University of Minnesota Press 0816639493 2001 $24.00
Donald Worster Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s Oxford University Press 0195174887 2004 $12.89

Selected books in and around American Studies:

Author Title Publisher ISBN Year Price
Joe Austin Taking the Train Columbia University Press 0231111436 2001 $20.86
Greil Marcus Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music Plume 0452289181 2008 $11.56
Wanda Corn The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935 University of California Press 0520231996 2001 $36.52
John Stilgoe Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845 Yale University Press 0300030460 1983 $29.00
Thomas Hine Populuxe University of California Press 1585679100 2007 $16.50
Roland Marchand Advertising the American Dream University of California Press 0520058852 1986 $31.27

American Studies for ELT:

Author Title Publisher ISBN Year Price
Cheryl Benz, Steven Benz Impressions 1: America through Academic Reading Houghton Mifflin 0618410260 2007 $36.95
Cheryl Benz, Steven Benz Impressions 2: America through Academic Reading Houghton Mifflin 0618410279 2007 $36.95
Greg Costa American Short Stories: Exercises in Reading and Writing Heinle ELT 0030213347 2000 $43.95
M. E. Sokolik Rethinking America 1: An Intermediate Cultural Reader Heinle ELT 0838447503 1999 $37.95
M. E. Sokolik Rethinking America 2 Heinle ELT 0838447414 1999 $34.15
M. E. Sokolik Rethinking America 3 Heinle ELT 0838447325 1999 $37.95
Maryanne Datesman, JoAnn Crandall, Edward Kearny American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture Longman 0131500864 2005 $24.81
Jessica Williams Academic Encounters: American Studies Student's Book: Reading, Study Skills, and Writing Cambridge University Press 0521673690 2007 $24.08
Kim Sanabria Academic Listening Encounters: American Studies Student's Book with Audio CD: Listening, Note Taking, and Discussion Cambridge University Press 0521684323 2007 $28.95
Milada Broukel, Peter Murphy, Janet Milhomme All About the USA 1: A Cultural Reader Longman 0136138926 2007 $24.50 **
Milada Broukel, Peter Murphy, Janet Milhomme All About the USA 2: A Cultural Reader Longman 0132406284 2007 $24.50**
Milada Broukel, Peter Murphy, Janet Milhomme All About the USA 3: A Cultural Reader Longman 0132349698 2007 $24.50**
Milada Broukel, Peter Murphy, Janet Milhomme All About the USA 4: A Cultural Reader Longman 013234968X 2007 $24.50**
** = price from publisher’s website