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Amazon logo Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. ISBN: 9780395683309.

Amazon logo Cook, James. Journals of Captain Cook. New York, NY: Penguin USA, 2000. ISBN: 9780140436471.

Amazon logo Cronon, William. Changes in the Land. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2003. ISBN: 9780809016341.

Amazon logo Crosby, Alfred. The Columbian Exchange. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. ISBN: 9780275980733.

Amazon logo Defoe, Daniel. Journal of the Plague Year. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1992. ISBN: 9780393961881. (Download a version from the Gutenberg Project.)

Amazon logo Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1987. ISBN: 9780140444865.

Amazon logo Herlihy, David. The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780674076136.

Amazon logo Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780520220270.

Amazon logo Mncall, Peter. Envisioning America. Boston, MA: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780312122522.

Amazon logo McNeill, J. R., and W. H. McNeill. The Human Web. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. ISBN: 9780393051797.

Amazon logo O'Grada, C. Black '47 and Beyond. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780691015507.

Amazon logo White, Richard. The Organic Machine. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1996. ISBN: 9780809015832.

Readings by Class Session

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1-2IntroductionMcNeill, 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
(PDF)Kinds of Societies (PDF)
3-4The Disease EnvironmentAmazon logo Herlihy, David. The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780674076136.

Amazon logo Defoe, Daniel. Journal of the Plague Year. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1992, pp. 1-51. ISBN: 9780393961881.

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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5-6The Columbian ExchangeAmazon logo Crosby, Alfred. The Columbian Exchange. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. Chapters 2, 3, and 5. ISBN: 9780275980733.

Amazon logo Mancall, Peter. Envisioning America. Boston, MA: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995, pp. 45-61, 112-132 and 140-148. ISBN: 9780312122522.

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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7-8Wilderness and GardenAmazon logo Cronon, William. Changes in the Land. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2003. ISBN: 9780809016341.

Related Web Sites

Museum of Garden History: Tradescant Knot Garden

Versailles Gardens
Changes in the Land (PDF)(PDF)
9-10Science and NatureAmazon logo Cook, James. Journals of Captain Cook. New York, NY: Penguin edition, 2000, pp. 39-61, 125-134, 335-339, 374-390 and 530-547. ISBN: 9780140436471.

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)(PDF)Bestiary and Natural History (PDF)
11Field Trip to Burndy LibraryRelated Web Site

Burndy Library
12-14Landscape and AgricultureO'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)(PDF)Goldsmith, Oliver. "The Deserted Village." (PDF)

The Shock of Industrialization (PDF)
15-16Industry and DemographyAmazon logo Engels, Friedrich. Chapters 2 and 5 in The Condition of the Working Class in England. London; New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1987. ISBN: 9780140444865.

Related Web Sites

England before (1701) and after (1911) the Industrial Revolution

BBC: History: Industrialisation

Condition of the Working Class (PDF)(PDF)
17-18Conservation and PreservationJacoby. "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)(PDF)
20-21Poisoning and EnvironmentalismCarson, 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)
22-23Current EventsMcNeill, J. R., and W. H. McNeill. The Human Web. pp. 284-8 and 319-327.

White, Richard. The Organic Machine.
The Organic Machine (PDF)(PDF)

 








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