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Topics in World History, 1350-1800: Books

All of the following must be purchased, and reading assigned in them must be completed by the date listed in the reading and class topic page. Moreover, you must be prepared to discuss how these reading assignments relate to class modules you are creating for your Project. You should have the book under discussion with you during the relevant real time ("live") class sessions in the MOO.

Alfred W. Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (1993).
Cambridge University Press. paper. 0-521-45690-8

Used copies of this book are available for purchase from the bookstore of Idaho State University.

Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (1997).
University of California Press. paper. 0-520-20743-2

Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 (2nd ed., 1996).
Cambridge University Press. paper. 0-521-47958-4

Used copies of this book are available for purchase from the bookstore of Idaho State University.

John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (2nd ed., 1998).
Cambridge University Press. paper. 0-521-62724-9

NOTE

Turn your books into dialogues: Write your questions in the margin as they occur to you; look for answers as you read and then write these, as you understand them, in the margins. You will post great queries to the on-line list, do brilliantly in the MOO discussions, and create outstanding class modules. 

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J. B. Owens
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Revised:  16 May 1998


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