1 | Introduction | |
2 | Discussion of Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle |  Darwin, Charles. Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1989. ISBN: 9780140432688.
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3 | Discussion of Session Readings |
Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2003, chapters 11-12. ISBN: 9781551113371. Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin: Voyaging. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1996, chapters 7-14. ISBN: 9780691026060. Desmond, Adrian, and James Moore. Darwin. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994, chapters 8-13. ISBN: 9780393311501. Keynes, R. D., ed. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988, especially pp. 351-64. ISBN: 9780521235037. Darwin, Charles. "Darwin's Ornithological Notes." Edited by Nora Barlow. The British Museum of Natural History Historical Series 2, no. 7 (1963). London, England. Bulletin of BM (NH), 1963, especially pp. 260-266. Sulloway, Frank. "Darwin and His Finches: The Evolution of a Legend." Journal of the History of Biology 15 (1982): 1-53.
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4 | Discussion of Pielou's After the Ice Age and Mithen's After the Ice |
Pielou, E. C. After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992, especially 5-38, 61-80, 99-101, 107-115, 125-128, and 227-312. ISBN: 9780226668123. Mithen, Steven. After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004, especially 1-300. ISBN: 9780674015708.
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5 | Discussion of Richards's Unending Frontier | Richards, John F. The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, especially 1-61, 199-245, and 313-622. ISBN: 9780520230750. |
6 | Discussion of Grove's Green Imperialism | Grove, Richard. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Orgins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996, especially 1-152, and 309-486. ISBN: 9780521565134. |
7 | Discussion of Melville's Plague of Sheep and Anderson's Creatures of Empire |
Melville, Elinor. A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780521574488. Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780195158601.
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8 | Discussion of Drayton's Nature's Government | Drayton, Richard. Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the 'Improvement' of the World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780300059762. |
9 | Discussion of Session Readings |
Stocking, George. Victorian Anthropology. 1st Free Press paperback ed. New York, NY: The Free Press, 1991, especially 46-109, and 186-283. ISBN: 9780029315514. Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. New York, NY: Routledge, 1992, especially 15-143. ISBN: 9780415060950. Krech, Shepherd. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999. ISBN: 9780393047554.
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10 | Discussion of Watt's Epidemics and History and Curtin's Disease and Empire |
Watts, Sheldon. Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780300080872. Curtin, Philip D. Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780521598354.
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11 | Discussion of MacKenzie's Empire of Nature and Ritvo's Animal Estate |
MacKenzie, John. The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation, and British Imperialism. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780719022272. Ritvo, Harriet. The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987, pp. 243-288. ISBN: 9780674037069.
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12 | Discussion of MacLeod's Science and the Colonial Enterprise | MacLeod, Roy, ed. Nature and Empire: Science and the Colonial Enterprise. Osiris, 2nd series, vol. 15. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780226500782. |
13-14 | Final Presentations | |
