Environment and History

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• [Carson] = Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring . Houghton Mifflin, original 1962, anniversary edition 2002. ISBN: 9780618249060.
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• [Cook] = Cook, James. Journals of Captain Cook . Penguin Classics, 2000. ISBN: 9780140436471. [See on Project Gutenberg ] ↗
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• [Cronon] = Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England . Hill and Wang, 2003. ISBN: 9780809016341.
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• [Defoe] = Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year . W. W. Norton and Company, 1992. ISBN: 9780393961881. [See on Project Gutenberg ] ↗
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• [Engels] = Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England . Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780199555888. [See the original English translation on Project Gutenberg ] ↗
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• [Jacoby] = Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation . University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780520239098.
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• [Mancall] = Mancall, Peter C. Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640 . Bedfords/St. Martins, 1995. ISBN: 9780312096700.
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• [McNeill and McNeill] = McNeill, J. R., and W. H. McNeill. The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History . W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. ISBN: 9780393051797.
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• [White] = White, Richard. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River . Hill and Wang, 1996. ISBN: 9780809015832.
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• WEEK: Week 1 · TOPICS: Introduction · READINGS: McNeill, and McNeill, pp. 25-40, 75-81, 108-15, 137-54, 158-78, 186-9, 200-23, 230-52, 264-7, 279-88, and 319-327. Questions : ( PDF ) ↗
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• Carney, Judith A. “African Rice in the Columbian Exchange.” Journal of African History 42, no. 3 (2001): 377-396. [ Abstract ] Questions : ( PDF ) ↗
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• McNeill, J. R. “Revolutionary Mosquitoes of the Atlantic World: Malaria and Independence.” In Natures Past: The Environment and Human History . Edited by Paolo Squatriti. University of Michigan Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780472069606. [Preview on Google Books ] Questions : ( PDF ) ↗
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• WEEK: Week 3 · TOPICS: Wilderness and Garden · READINGS: Cronon, full text. Questions : ( PDF ) ↗
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• WEEK: Week 4 · TOPICS: The Disease Environment · READINGS: Defoe, pp. 6-66, and 197-230. Questions : ( PDF ) ↗
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• WEEK: Week 5 · TOPICS: Science and Nature · READINGS: Cook, pp. 39-61, 125-134, 335-339, 374-390, and 530-547. Questions : ( PDF ) ↗
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• WEEK: Week 6 · TOPICS: Landscape and Agriculture · READINGS: Ritvo, Harriet. “Possessing Mother Nature: Genetic Capital in 18th-Century Britain.” In Susan Staves and John Brewer, eds. Early Modern Conceptions of Property . Routledge, 1996. ISBN: 9780415153140. Questions : ( PDF ) ↗
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• WEEK: Week 7 · TOPICS: Industry and Demography · READINGS: Engels, “The Great Towns.” Chapter 2. “Results.” Chapter 5. Questions : ( PDF ) ↗
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• Jacoby, Introduction and chapters 4-6. Questions : ( PDF ) ↗
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• Ritvo, Harriet. “Manchester v. Thirlmere and the Construction of the Victorian Environment.” Victorian Studies 49, no. 3 (2007): 457-481. [ Abstract ] ↗
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• Carson, Chapters 1, 7, 9, 10, 14, and 16. Questions : ( PDF ) ↗
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• Langston, Nancy. “The Retreat from Precaution: Regulating DES, Endocrine Disruption, and Environmental Health.” Environmental History 13, no. 1 (2008): 41-65. [See on Environmental History ] ↗
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• WEEK: Week 11 · TOPICS: Current Events · READINGS: White, full text. Questions : ( PDF ) ↗
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