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Readings

The following books are available for purchase at the Coop Bookstore. There is also a Course Reader; readings from it are indicated on the schedule of readings by an asterisk (*).

SESSION# TOPIC READINGS
2 Margaret Jacob The Enlightenment. A Brief History with Documents
5 Descartes Discourse on Method, all.
9 Fontenelle Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
13 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Letters From an American Farmer
17 Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Equiano
22 Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Recommended

McKay, Hill, Buckler, A History of Western Society II: From Absolutism to the Present (A Western Civ textbook, for background reading.)