Books

Hist 100-22 Western Civilization

Required Books

You are expected to buy or borrow the following assigned books, and you must bring them to class on the days for which they are assigned. They are available for purchase at the Mason Bookstore*† or through the Hist 100 Bookshop on Amazon.com.˚

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Anchor 1994. ISBN 0385474547.
Brecht, Bertold. Galileo, translated by Eric Bentley. Grove Press, 1994. ISBN 0802130593.
Burns, Michael. France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Brief Documentary History. Bedford/St. Martin's 1998. ISBN 0312111673.
Duras, Claire de. Ourika, translated by John Fowles. MLA 1994. ISBN 0873527801.
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. Touchstone 1996, ISBN 0684826801.
Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince, translated by Peter Bondanella. (Oxford World's Classics.) Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 019280426X.

Notes

* The history department reports that "all military veterans, scholarship students, and athletes must buy their textbooks at the Mason bookstore. Their funding and retention requirements make this stipulation so that proper reimbursement will occur." (Source: Email from Laura McCloskey, Department of History and Art History, on 2/25/2008)

† Please note that I am teaching two sections of Hist 100, and I using the same books for each one. If you cannot find the books under Hist 100-22 in the Mason bookstore, check Hist 100-23.

˚ If you order a book online, please plan enough shipping time for you to still be able to complete the reading assignment for the day we are discussing it. Also, please make sure you order the same translation of Machiavelli's The Prince. (You will not find alternatives for the other translated works in the above list.)

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