Required Texts
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. ISBN: 0395683300.
Cook, James. Journals of Captain Cook. Penguin USA, 2000. ISBN: 0140436472.
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. ISBN: 0809016346.
Crosby, Alfred. The Columbian Exchange. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. ISBN: 0275980731.
Defoe, Daniel. Journal of the Plague Year. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992. ISBN: 0393961885. (Download a version from the Gutenberg Project.)
Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England. London; New York: Penguin Books, 1987. ISBN: 0140444866.
Herlihy, David. The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0674076133.
Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 0520220277.
Mancall, Peter. Envisioning America. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995. ISBN: 0312122527.
McNeill, J. R., and W. H. McNeill. The Human Web. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. ISBN: 039305179X.
O'Grada, C. Black '47 and Beyond. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0691015503.
White, Richard. The Organic Machine. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995. ISBN: 0809015838.
Readings by Class Session
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Introduction |
McNeill, J. R., and W. H. McNeill. The Human Web. pp. 25-40.
Related Web Sites
The Maoi
Easter Island
Arctodus simus Yukonensis
Dinnertime at Cuddie Springs: Hunting and Butchering Megafauna?
Smithsonian Institution: Virtual Tour of the National Museum of Natural History: Ice Age Mammals: Giant Ground Sloth
Illinois State Museum: Ground Sloths
Illinois State Museum: Armadillo |
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Kinds of Societies (PDF) |
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The Disease Environment |
Herlihy, David. The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0674076133.
Defoe, Daniel. Journal of the Plague Year. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992, pp. 1-51. ISBN: 0393961885.
McNeill, J. R., and W. H. McNeill. The Human Web. pp. 75-81 and 264-6.
Related Web Sites
Electronic Textbook of Dermatology: Bubonic Plague
The Black Death
PBS: A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Bubonic Plague Hits San Francisco |
The Black Death (PDF)
Journal of the Plague Year (PDF)
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The Columbian Exchange |
Crosby, Alfred. The Columbian Exchange. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. Chapters 2, 3 and 5. ISBN: 0275980731.
Mancall, Peter. Envisioning America. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995, pp. 45-61, 112-132 and 140-148. ISBN: 0312122527.
McNeill, J. R., and W. H. McNeill. The Human Web. pp. 108-15 and 160-1. |
Crosby, The Columbian Exchange (PDF)
Selections in Mancall (PDF) |
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| 7-8 |
Wilderness and Garden |
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. ISBN: 0809016346.
Related Web Sites
Museum of Garden History: Tradescant Knot Garden
Versailles Gardens |
Changes in the Land (PDF) |
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| 9-10 |
Science and Nature |
Cook, James. Journals of Captain Cook. Penguin edition, 2000, pp. 39-61, 125-134, 335-339, 374-390 and 530-547. ISBN: 0140436472.
McNeill, J. R., and W. H. McNeill. The Human Web. pp. 137-53, 162-78, 186-9 and 200-5. |
The Journals of Captain Cook (PDF) |
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Bestiary and Natural History (PDF) |
| 11 |
Field Trip to Burndy Library |
Related Web Site
Burndy Library |
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| 12-14 |
Landscape and Agriculture |
O'Grada, C. Black '47 and Beyond. Chapters 1, 3 and 4.
Related Web Sites
Irish Famine: Views of the Famine
Map of Irish Counties |
The Irish Famine (PDF) |
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Goldsmith, Oliver. "The Deserted Village." (PDF)
The Shock of Industrialization (PDF) |
| 15-16 |
Industry and Demography |
Engels, Friedrich. Chapters 2 and 5 in The Condition of the Working Class in England. London; New York: Penguin Books, 1987. ISBN: 0140444866.
Related Web Sites
England before (1701) and after (1911) the Industrial Revolution
BBC: History: Industrialisation
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Condition of the Working Class (PDF) |
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| 17-18 |
Conservation and Preservation |
Jacoby. "Introduction." In Crimes Against Nature. Chapters 4-6.
McNeill, J. R., and W. H. McNeill. The Human Web. pp. 217-23, 230-52 and 279-84. |
Conservation and Preservation (PDF) |
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| 20-21 |
Poisoning and Environmentalism |
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Chapters 1, 7, 9, 10, 14 and 16.
Rosenberg, Tina. "What the World Needs Now is DDT?" The New York Times Sunday Magazine. April 11, 2004. |
Silent Spring (PDF) |
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Current Events |
McNeill, J. R., and W. H. McNeill. The Human Web. pp. 284-8 and 319-327.
White, Richard. The Organic Machine. |
The Organic Machine (PDF) |
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