British studies

Journal of British Studies

British studies is the academic study of Britain — its culture, geography and history.

Britain is significant as a topic because it was the location of the industrial revolution; the British Empire was large and influential in world history; and English is now a major international language. The topic is especially studied in the USA as students there often have a heritage of British ancestry which encourages Anglophilia while the shared language of English makes British culture readily accessible.[1] The greatest influence on American culture has been from western and British culture.[2] In Germany, the topic is a specialism of Kulturkunde and Landeskunde and there is a Journal for the Study of British Cultures.[3]

A course was started at the University of Texas in 1975 and, more recently, courses have started at other universities such as Columbia, Yale[1] and the Faculty of World Studies at University of Tehran.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Zoë Corbyn (2 May 2011), "British studies, the latest import from the US?", The Guardian
  2. ↑ "culture of USA". What is USA News. 26 April 2013. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
  3. ↑ Michael Payne; Jessica Rae Barbera (2010), A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory, pp. 253–255, ISBN 978-1-4051-6890-8
  4. ↑ http://fws.ut.ac.ir/ltr/Groups.aspx?Ind=-1&Id=112&LanId=2 | University of Tehran, Faculty of British Studies

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