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Readings

SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction
2 Discussion of Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle Darwin, Charles. Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of researches. London, England: Penguin Books, 1989. ISBN: 014043268X.
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: 1551113376.

Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin: Voyaging. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1996, chapters 7-14. ISBN: 0691026068.

Desmond, Adrian, and James Moore. Darwin. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994, chapters 8-13. ISBN: 0393311503.

Keynes, R. D., ed. Charles Darwin's Beagle diary. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988, especially pp. 351-64. ISBN: 0521235030.

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.
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, 1991, especially 5-38, 61-80, 99-101, 107-115, 125-128, and 227-312. ISBN: 0226668126.

Mithen, Steven. After the ice: a global human history, 20,000-5000 BC. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004, especially 1-300. ISBN: 0674015703.
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: 0520230752.
6 Discussion of Grove's Green Imperialism Grove, Richard. Green imperialism: colonial expansion, tropical island Edens, and the orgins of environmentalism, 1600-1860. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995, especially 1-152, and 309-486. ISBN: 0521565138.
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, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN: 052157448X.

Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. Creatures of Empire: how domestic animals transformed early America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0195158601.
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: 0300059760.
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: 0029315514.

Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial eyes: travel writing and transculturation. London, England: Routledge, 1992, especially 15-143. ISBN: 0415060958.

Krech, Shepherd. The ecological Indian: myth and history. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999. ISBN: 0393047555.
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, 1997. ISBN: 0300080875.

Curtin, Philip D. Disease and empire: the health of European troops in the conquest of Africa. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0521598354.
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, England: Manchester University Press, 1988. ISBN: 0719022274.

Ritvo, Harriet. The animal estate: the English and other creatures in the Victorian Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987, pp. 243-288. ISBN: 0674037065.
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: 0226500780.
13-14 Final Presentations