[Carson] = Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin, original 1962, anniversary edition 2002. ISBN: 9780618249060.
[Cook] = Cook, James. Journals of Captain Cook. Penguin Classics, 2000. ISBN: 9780140436471. [See on Project Gutenberg]
[Cronon] = Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. Hill and Wang, 2003. ISBN: 9780809016341.
[Defoe] = Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. W. W. Norton and Company, 1992. ISBN: 9780393961881. [See on Project Gutenberg]
[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]
[Jacoby] = Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780520239098.
[Mancall] = Mancall, Peter C. Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640. Bedfords/St. Martins, 1995. ISBN: 9780312096700.
[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.
[White] = White, Richard. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. Hill and Wang, 1996. ISBN: 9780809015832.
| WEEK | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction | 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) |
| Week 2 | The Columbian Exchange |
Mancall, pp. 45-61, 112-132, and 140-148. Questions: (PDF) Carney, Judith A. "African Rice in the Columbian Exchange." Journal of African History 42, no. 3 (2001): 377-396. [Abstract] Questions: (PDF) 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) |
| Week 3 | Wilderness and Garden | Cronon, full text. Questions: (PDF) |
| Week 4 | The Disease Environment | Defoe, pp. 6-66, and 197-230. Questions: (PDF) |
| Week 5 | Science and Nature | Cook, pp. 39-61, 125-134, 335-339, 374-390, and 530-547. Questions: (PDF) |
| Week 6 | Landscape and Agriculture | 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) |
| Week 7 | Industry and Demography | Engels, "The Great Towns." Chapter 2. "Results." Chapter 5. Questions: (PDF) |
| Week 8 | Conservation and Preservation |
Jacoby, Introduction and chapters 4-6. Questions: (PDF) Ritvo, Harriet. "Manchester v. Thirlmere and the Construction of the Victorian Environment." Victorian Studies 49, no. 3 (2007): 457-481. [Abstract] |
| Week 9 | Preparation for research paper | |
| Week 10 | Poisoning and Environmentalism |
Carson, Chapters 1, 7, 9, 10, 14, and 16. Questions: (PDF) 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] |
| Week 11 | Current Events | White, full text. Questions: (PDF) |