| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Discussion of Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle
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| 3 | Discussion of Session Readings | |
| 4 | Discussion of Pielou's After the Ice Age and Mithen's After the Ice
| Paper proposals due |
| 5 | Discussion of Richards's Unending Frontier
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| 6 | Discussion of Grove's Green Imperialism
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| 7 | Discussion of Melville's Plague of Sheep and Anderson's Creatures of Empire
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| 8 | Discussion of Drayton's Nature's Government
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| 9 | Discussion of Session Readings | Paper progress reports due |
| 10 | Discussion of Watt's Epidemics and History and Curtin's Disease and Empire
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| 11 | Discussion of MacKenzie's Empire of Nature and Ritvo's Animal Estate
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| 12 | Discussion of MacLeod's Science and the Colonial Enterprise
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| 13-14 | Final Presentations | Final paper due on session 14 |
