Revised Syllabus October 19, 2011

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Revised Syllabus October 19, 2011 Robert M. Schwartz (inactive) Wednesday, 10/19/2011, at 8:15 PM

Revised syllabus October 19, 2011.

Oct. 26

Written work

The Railways, Globalization, and Agricultural Change

Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey. Trains and Travel in the 19^th Century, chap. 3 “Railroad Space and Railroad Time,” (P2)

Optional: chap. 4 Panoramic Travel and chap. 12 “Tracks in the City.”

Winter, Secure from Rash Assault, chap. 6 Cutting New Channels

Coclanis, Peter A. "Back to the Future: The Globalization of Agriculture in Historical Context." SAIS Review 23, no. 1 (2003): 71-84. (ER)

R. M. Schwartz, Rail Transport, Agrarian Crisis, and the Restructuring of Agriculture: France and Great Britain Confront Globalization, 1860-1900,” Social Science History (June 2010) (P2)

Optional: Read the following when possible to grasp important concepts of geographic and spatial analysis using GIS.

R. Schwartz, “Railways and Population Change in Industrializing England,”

chapter 1. (P2)

Lab report due on Sunday, Send by email attachment. (Graded)

Nov. 2

Written work

Environmental Issues in the British Parliamentary Papers Excerpts from the Royal Commissions on Agricultural Depression, to be assigned.

Optional:

R Schwartz, “Railways and Population Change in Industrializing England,”

chapter 2. (P2)

Lab report due on Friday, Send by email attachment. (Graded)

Nov. 9

Written work

Agrarian Crisis

Harding, Jeremy. "What We’re about to Receive." London Review of Books 32 no. 9 (2010): 3-8. (P)

Research in the British Parliamentary Papers, to be explained.

Optional: A good example of a first-rate seminar paper that was eventually published after revisions.

Melissa Joyce, “Industrialisation and Environmental History in Victorian England: Wolverhampton, Wolverton and The Railroad,” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 2008 [a revised and expanded version of her paper for History 256 in the fall 2005.] (P)

Lab report due on Friday, Send by email attachment. (Graded)

Nov. 16

Avner Offer, The First World War, An Agrarian Interpretation, chaps. 6,7,8. (P)

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Extended Lab period

Break

November 19-27

Nov. 30

The Victorians and the Environment: The City and the Country

Winter, Secure from Rash Assault, either chap. 7 Holes or chap. 8 Heaps, chap. 9 The City in the Country.

Optional: chap. 10 Greening the City, 11 The Environment of Leisure, 12 The Hungry Ocean.

Douglas, Ian, Rob Hodgson, and Nigel Lawson. "Industry, Environment and Health through 200 Years in Manchester." Ecological Economics 41, no. 2 (2002): 235 ff. (P)

Optional. Darwin: Man in Nature

Peter Marshall, “Darwinism and the Web of Life,” chap. 23 in Nature’s Web. An Exploration of Ecological Thinking (New York, 1992). (P)

Dec. 7

Class Presentations

Drafts of seminar paper due.

Dec. 14

William Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness: or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” from Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (New York, 1996). (P)

John McNeill, Historical Perspectives on Global Ecology. (P)

Harkinson, Josh, “What’s Your Water Footprint, “Mother Jones, Jul/Aug2009, Vol. 34, Issue 4. (ER)

Amherst College: Revised Syllabus

Revised Syllabus October 19, 2011

Break

The Victorians and the Environment: The City and the Country

Optional. Darwin: Man in Nature

Peter Marshall, “Darwinism and the Web of Life,” chap. 23 in Nature’s Web. An Exploration of Ecological Thinking (New York, 1992). (P)

Class Presentations

William Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness: or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” from Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (New York, 1996). (P)