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Lecture 1: The Human Family
- Louis Carini, The Origins of Homo Sapiens (Xlibris, 2008).
- Camilo J. Cela-Conde and Francisco J. Ayala, Human evolution: trails from the past (Oxford University Press, 2007).
- David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (University of California Press, 2004).
- Ann Gibbons, The First Human (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007).
- Wiktor Stoczkowski, Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2002).
- Ian Tattersall, The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE (OxfordUniversity Press, 2008).
Lecture 2: The Cognitive Revolution
- Frans de Waal, Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
- Steven Mithen, The Singing Neanderthals: the origins of music, language, mind, and body (Harvard University Press, 2005).
- Guy Deutscher, The unfolding of language: an evolutionary tour of mankind’s greatest invention (Henry Holt and Company, 2006).
- Robin Dunbar, Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language (Harvard University Press, 1998)
- Robbins Burling, The talking ape: how language evolved (Oxford University Press, 2005).
- John H. McWhorter, The power of Babel : a natural history of language (Arrow, 2003).
- Steven J. Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science(Thames and Hudson, 1999).
- Merlin Donald, Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition (Harvard University Press, 1991).
- Linda Stone, Paul Lurquin and L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesis (Wiley, 2006).
Lecture 3: Daily Life in the Stone Age
- Frans de Waal, Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Riverhead Books, 2005)
- Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, Sex at dawn : the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality (Harper, 2010).
- Robert Wright, The moral animal : the new science of evolutionary psychology (Pantheon Books, 1994).
- David M. Buss, ed., The handbook of evolutionary psychology (John Wiley & Sons, 2005).
- Neil Morris, Everyday Life in Prehistory (McRae Books, 2004).
- Monica L. Smith, A Prehistory of Ordinary People (University of Arizona Press, 2010).
- John Lynch and Kouise Barrett, Walking with cavemen: eye-to-eye with your ancestors (DK Pub., 2003).
- Susie Brooks, Prehistoric People (The Rosen Publishing Group, 2010).
- Douglas V. Campana, Before farming: hunter-gatherer society and subsistence (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1995).
- Jean Guilaine and Zammit Jean. The Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory. (Blackwell, 2005).
- Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (OxfordUniversity Press, 2006).
- Lawrence H. Keeley, War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage (Oxford University Press, 1996).
Lecture 4: The Human Flood
- Byron Heath, Discovering the great south land (Rosenberg Pub., 2005).
- Peter Hiscock, Archaeology of Ancient Australia (New York: Routledge, 2008).
- Alan G. Fix, Migration and Colonization in Human Microevolution (Cambridge U. Press, 1999).
- Michael Begon, Ecology: Individuals, Populations and Communities (Blackwell Pub., 1996).
- William Balée, ed., Advances in Historical Ecology (Columbia U. Press, 1998).
- Samuel T. Turvey, ed., Holocene Extinctions (Oxford U. Press, 2009).
- Bernard Campbell, Human Ecology: The Story of Our Place in Nature from Prehistory to the Present, 2nd ed.(Aldine De Gruyter, 1995 [1983]).
- Torben C. Rick and Jon M. Erlandson, eds., Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective (U. of California Press, 2008).
- Andrew Goudie, the Human Impact on the Natural Environment, 6th ed. (Blackwell Pub., 2006 [1981]).
- Klaus Rohde, ed., the Balance of Nature and Human Impact (Cambridge U. Press, 2013).
- Timothy F. Flannery, The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and Peoples (Port Melbourne, Vic.: Reed Books Australia, 1994).
- Anthony D. Barnosky et al., "Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents," Science 306:5693 (2004): 70-75.
- Jim Allen and James F. O'Connell, "The Long and the Short of It: Archaeological Approaches to Determining When Humans First Colonised Australia and New Guinea," Australian Archeology 57 (2003): 5-19.
- Bary W. Brook and David M.J.S. Bowman, "The Uncertain Blitzkrieg of Pleistocene Megafauna," Journal of Biogeography 31:4 (2004), 517-523.
- Gifford H. Miller et al., "Ecosystem Collapse in Pleistocene Australia and a Human Role in Megafaunal Extinction," Science 309:5732 (2005), 287-290;
- Jared Diamond, the Third Chimpanzee (HarperCollins, 1993).
Lecture 5: History’s Biggest Fraud
- Steven Mithen, After the ice: A global Human history 20,000-5000 BC (Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd., 2003).
- Jared Diamond, Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies (W. W. Norton & Company Incorporated, 1999).
- Graeme Barker, The agricultural revolution in prehistory: why did foragers become farmers? (OxfordUniversity Press, 2006).
- Peter Bellwood, First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies (Blackwell Publishing, 2005).
- Alan H. Simmons, the Neolithic Revolution in the Near East: Transforming the Human Landscape (University of Arizona Press, 2010).
- Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel and Ofer Bar-Yosef, eds., the Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences (Springer, 2008).
- Douglas J. Kennett and Bruce Winterhalder, eds., Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture (University of California Press, 2006).
- Tim Denham and Peter White, The emergence of agriculture: a global view (Routledge, 2007).
- B.W. Higman, How Food Made History (John Wiley & Sons, 2011).
- Jared Diamond, "The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race," Discover (May 1987): 64-66.
Lecture 6: Building Pyramids-
- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd, Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
- Gary M. Feinman and Linda Manzanilla, eds., Cultural Evolution: Contemporary Viewpoints (Springer, 2000).
- Allen W. Johnson, The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to AgrarianState (Stanford University Press, 2000).
- Ian Kujit, ed., Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Pub., 2000).
- Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel and Ofer Bar-Yosef, eds., the Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences (Springer, 2008).
- Craig A. Lockard, Societies, Networks, and Transitions: A Global History, Volume I (Cengage Learning, 2007). Part 1.
- Barry B. Powell, Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization (John Wiley & Sons, 2012).
- Amalia E. Gnandesikan, The Writing Revolution (John Wiley & Sons, 2011).
- Jean-Jacques Glassner, The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).
- Jack Goody, the Power of the Written Tradition (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000).
- Andrew Robinson, the Story of Writing (Thames & Hudson, Limited, 2007).
- Terence P. Moran, Introduction to the History of Communication: Evolutions & Revolutions (Peter Lang, 2010). Especially pages 75-108.
- Stephen D. Houston, ed., the First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
- William G. Roy, Making Societies: The Historical Construction of Our World (Pine Forge Press, 2001).
Lecture 7: There is no Justice in History-
- T. Douglas Price and Gary M. Feinman, eds., Foundations of Social Inequality (Springer, 1995).
- T. Douglas Price and Gary M. Feinman, eds., Pathways to Power: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality (Springer, 2010).
- Tracy L. Sweely, Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology (Routledge, 2003).
- Timothy K. Earle, How Chiefs Come to Power: The Political Economy in Prehistory (Stanford University Press, 1997).
- Jonathan Haas, From Leaders to Rulers (Springer, 2001).
- Diane Bolger, ed., A Companion to Gender Prehistory (John Wiley & Sons, 2012).
- Peter N. Stearns, Gender in World History (Routledge, 2000).
- Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Gender in History: Global Perspectives (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001).
- Teresa A. Meade & Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, eds., A companion to Gender History (Blackwell Publishing, 2004).
Lecture 8: The Direction of History
- Nayan Chanda, Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization (YaleUniversity Press, 2007).
- Wendy F. Kasinec and Michael A. Polushin, eds., expanding empires: cultural interaction and exchange in world societies from ancient to early modern times (Scholarly Resources, 2002).
- Michael Adas and Stuart B. Schwartz, World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Vol. 1 (HarperCollins Publishers, 1992).
- Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Penguin Press, 2008).
- Alan Beattie, False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World (Penguin Group, 2009).
- Glyn Davies and Julian Hodge Bank, A history of money: from ancient times to the present day (University of Wales Press, 2002).
- Jack Weatherford, The History of Money (Crown Publishing Group, 2009).
- Howard Means, Money & Power: The History of Business (John Wiley & Sons, 2002).
- Liviu C. Andrei, Money and Market In the Economy of All Times: Another World History of Money and Pre-Money Based Economies (Xlibris Corporation, 2011).
- David Graeber, Debt: the First 5,000 Years (Melville House Publishing, 2011).
- John R. McNeill and William H. McNeill, The Human Web: A Bird's-eye View of World History (W.W. Norton, 2003).
Lecture 9: Imperial Visions
- Eric H. Cline and Mark W. Graham, Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
- Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel, The Dynamics of Ancient Empires : State Power from Assyria to Byzantium(Oxford University Press, 2009).
- Will Slayter, Life/Death Rhythms of Ancient Empires - Climatic Cycles Influence Rule of Dynasties: A Predictable Pattern of Religion, War, Prosperity and Debt (Trafford Publishing, 2012).
- Eric H. Cline and Mark W. Graham, Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
- Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel, The Dynamics of Ancient Empires : State Power from Assyria to Byzantium(Oxford University Press, 2009).
- Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Princeton University Press, 2010).
- Timothy Parsons, The Rule of Empires:Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall (Oxford University Press, 2010).
- Herfried Munkler, Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient Rome to the United States(Polity, 2007).
- Susan E. Alcock, Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
- Thomas Harrison, ed., The Great Empires of the Ancient World (Getty Publications, 2009).
- Walter Scheidel, ed., Rome and China : comparative perspectives on ancient world empires (Oxford University Press, 2009).
- John E. Curtis and Nigel Tallis, ed., Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia (University of California Press, 2005).
- Grant Hardy and Anne Behnke Kinney, The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China(Greenwood Press, 2005).
Lecture 10: The Law of Religion
- Peter Watson, Ideas: a history from fire to Freud (Pheonix, 2006).
- Seth D. Kunin. ed., Theories of Religion: A Reader (Rutgers University Press, 2006).
- Robert N. Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Harvard University Press, 2011).
- Solomon A. Nigosian, World Religions: A Historical Approach (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008).
- Roberto Cipriani, Sociology of Religion: An Historical Introduction (Walter de Gruyter, 2000).
- John Bowker, World Religions: The great faiths explored & explained (DK Publishers, 2006).
- Willard Gurdon Oxtoby, A concise introduction to world religions (Oxford University Press, 2007).
- George Walsh, The Role the Religion in History (Transaction Publishers, 1998).
- Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, 3 Volumes (translated to English by Willard Trask and published by Chicago University Press, 1978-1991).
- William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Arc Manor, 2008 [1902]).
Lecture 11: The Discovery of Ignorance-
- Arun Bala, The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
- John Henry, The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
- Lisa Jardine, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution (Anchor Books, 2000).
- Jack Repcheck, Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began (Simon & Schuster, 2007).
- Margaret J. Osler, ed., Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
- Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 1996).
- Toby E. Huff, Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Lecture 12: The Marriage of Science and Empire-
- James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew, eds., Science and Empire in the Atlantic World (Routledge, 2008).
- Brett M. Bennett and Joseph M. Hodge, eds., Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970 (Palgrave McMillan, 2011).
- Jorge-Canizares-Esguerra, Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (Stanford University Press, 2006).
- George Vlahakis, Imperialism and Science: Social Impact and Interaction (ABC-CLIO, 2006).
- P. De Vos, “Natural History and the Pursuit of Empire”, Journal of World History, 17 (2006), 400-406.
- L. H. Brockway, Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens (Yale University Press, 2002 [1979]).
Lecture 13: The Capitalist Creed-
- Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton University Press, 2000).
- Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Penguin Press, 2008).
- Joyce Appleby, The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism (W. W. Norton, 2011).
- Thomas K. McCraw, Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions (Harvard University Press, 1997).
- Eric Hobsbawm, Age Of Capital 1848-1875 (Orion, 2010 [1975]).
- H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (Anchor, 2011).
- Eric H. Mielants, The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West" (Temple University Press, 2007).
- Eric Wright and Miles ranum, The Origins of Capitalism (BiblioBazaar, 2010).
- Ellen Meiksins Wood, The origin of capitalism: a longer view (Verso, 2002 [1999]).
- Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, And the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (M.E. Sharpe, 2006).
Lecture 14: The Wheels of Industry-
- Alfred W. Crosby, Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity’s Unappeasable Appetite for Energy (W. W. Norton & Company, 2006).
- Charles Moore, Understanding the Industrial Revolution (Routledge, 2000).
- Stewart Ross, the Industrial Revolution (Evans Brothers ltd., 2008).
- Peter Stearns, The Industrial Revolution in World History (Westview Press, 2007).
- Eric Hopkins, Industrialisation and Society: A Social History, 1830-1951 (Routledge, 2000).
- Steven King and Geoffrey Timmins Steven King and Geoffrey Timmins, Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution: English Economy and Society 1700-1850 (ManchesterUniversity Press, 2001).
- Jeff Horn, Leonard N. Rosenband and Merritt Roe Smith, eds., Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution (MIT Press, 2010).
- Nigel Smith, the Industrial Revolution (Evans Brothers ltd., 2009).
- Gavin Weightman, The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World 1776-1914 (Atlantic, 2007).
- Gavin Weightman, What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us (BBC Books, 2003).
- Jennifer L. Goloboy, ed., Industrial Revolution: People and Perspectives (ABC-CLIO, 2008).
Lecture 15: A Permanent Revolution-
- Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (Ofxford University Press, 2006).
- Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (New York: Viking, 2011).
- Joshua S. Goldstein, Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide (New York, N.Y.: Dutton, 2011)
- Mary S. Hartman, The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
- Michael Anderson, Approaches to the History of the Western Family 1500-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1980).
- Richard Wall, Tamara K. Hareven, Josef Ehmer, eds., Family History Revisited: Comparative Perspectives (Associated University Press, 2001).
Lecture 16: And They Lived Happily Ever After-
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus,1932).
- Darrin m. McMahon, Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006).
- Darrin m. McMahon, The Pursuit of Happiness: A History from the Greeks to the Present (Penguin Books, Limited, 2007).
- Richard Layard, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Penguin Group US, 2006).
- Nicholas P. White, a brief history of happiness (Blackwell Publishing, 2006).
- Sissela Bok, Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science (Yale University Press, 2011).
- Gregg Easterbrook, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse (Random House, 2003).
- E. Diener, & M. Suh, eds, Culture and Subjective Well-Being (MIT Press, 2000).
- Charles Kenny, " Were People in the Past Poor and Miserable?" Kyklos, 59:2 (2006): 275-306.
Lecture 17: The End of Homo Sapiens-
- Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking, 2005).
- Asher Seidel , Inhuman thoughts : philosophical explorations of posthumanity (Lexington Books, 2008).
- Ervin Laszlo, Quantum shift in the global brain : how the new scientific reality can change us and our world (Inner Traditions, 2008).
- John Leslie, The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction (Taylor & Francis, 2002).
- Nicholas Agar, Humanity's end: why we should reject radical enhancement (MIT Press, 2010).
- Joel Garreau, Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human (Crown Publishing Group, 2005).
Lecture 1: The Human Family
- Louis Carini, The Origins of Homo Sapiens (Xlibris, 2008).
- Camilo J. Cela-Conde and Francisco J. Ayala, Human evolution: trails from the past (Oxford University Press, 2007).
- David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (University of California Press, 2004).
- Ann Gibbons, The First Human (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007).
- Wiktor Stoczkowski, Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2002).
- Ian Tattersall, The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE (OxfordUniversity Press, 2008).
Lecture 2: The Cognitive Revolution
- Frans de Waal, Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
- Steven Mithen, The Singing Neanderthals: the origins of music, language, mind, and body (Harvard University Press, 2005).
- Guy Deutscher, The unfolding of language: an evolutionary tour of mankind’s greatest invention (Henry Holt and Company, 2006).
- Robin Dunbar, Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language (Harvard University Press, 1998)
- Robbins Burling, The talking ape: how language evolved (Oxford University Press, 2005).
- John H. McWhorter, The power of Babel : a natural history of language (Arrow, 2003).
- Steven J. Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science(Thames and Hudson, 1999).
- Merlin Donald, Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition (Harvard University Press, 1991).
- Linda Stone, Paul Lurquin and L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesis (Wiley, 2006).
Lecture 3: Daily Life in the Stone Age
- Frans de Waal, Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Riverhead Books, 2005)
- Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, Sex at dawn : the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality (Harper, 2010).
- Robert Wright, The moral animal : the new science of evolutionary psychology (Pantheon Books, 1994).
- David M. Buss, ed., The handbook of evolutionary psychology (John Wiley & Sons, 2005).
- Neil Morris, Everyday Life in Prehistory (McRae Books, 2004).
- Monica L. Smith, A Prehistory of Ordinary People (University of Arizona Press, 2010).
- John Lynch and Kouise Barrett, Walking with cavemen: eye-to-eye with your ancestors (DK Pub., 2003).
- Susie Brooks, Prehistoric People (The Rosen Publishing Group, 2010).
- Douglas V. Campana, Before farming: hunter-gatherer society and subsistence (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1995).
- Jean Guilaine and Zammit Jean. The Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory. (Blackwell, 2005).
- Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (OxfordUniversity Press, 2006).
- Lawrence H. Keeley, War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage (Oxford University Press, 1996).
Lecture 4: The Human Flood
- Byron Heath, Discovering the great south land (Rosenberg Pub., 2005).
- Peter Hiscock, Archaeology of Ancient Australia (New York: Routledge, 2008).
- Alan G. Fix, Migration and Colonization in Human Microevolution (Cambridge U. Press, 1999).
- Michael Begon, Ecology: Individuals, Populations and Communities (Blackwell Pub., 1996).
- William Balée, ed., Advances in Historical Ecology (Columbia U. Press, 1998).
- Samuel T. Turvey, ed., Holocene Extinctions (Oxford U. Press, 2009).
- Bernard Campbell, Human Ecology: The Story of Our Place in Nature from Prehistory to the Present, 2nd ed.(Aldine De Gruyter, 1995 [1983]).
- Torben C. Rick and Jon M. Erlandson, eds., Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective (U. of California Press, 2008).
- Andrew Goudie, the Human Impact on the Natural Environment, 6th ed. (Blackwell Pub., 2006 [1981]).
- Klaus Rohde, ed., the Balance of Nature and Human Impact (Cambridge U. Press, 2013).
- Timothy F. Flannery, The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and Peoples (Port Melbourne, Vic.: Reed Books Australia, 1994).
- Anthony D. Barnosky et al., "Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents," Science 306:5693 (2004): 70-75.
- Jim Allen and James F. O'Connell, "The Long and the Short of It: Archaeological Approaches to Determining When Humans First Colonised Australia and New Guinea," Australian Archeology 57 (2003): 5-19.
- Bary W. Brook and David M.J.S. Bowman, "The Uncertain Blitzkrieg of Pleistocene Megafauna," Journal of Biogeography 31:4 (2004), 517-523.
- Gifford H. Miller et al., "Ecosystem Collapse in Pleistocene Australia and a Human Role in Megafaunal Extinction," Science 309:5732 (2005), 287-290;
- Jared Diamond, the Third Chimpanzee (HarperCollins, 1993).
Lecture 5: History’s Biggest Fraud
- Steven Mithen, After the ice: A global Human history 20,000-5000 BC (Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd., 2003).
- Jared Diamond, Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies (W. W. Norton & Company Incorporated, 1999).
- Graeme Barker, The agricultural revolution in prehistory: why did foragers become farmers? (OxfordUniversity Press, 2006).
- Peter Bellwood, First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies (Blackwell Publishing, 2005).
- Alan H. Simmons, the Neolithic Revolution in the Near East: Transforming the Human Landscape (University of Arizona Press, 2010).
- Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel and Ofer Bar-Yosef, eds., the Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences (Springer, 2008).
- Douglas J. Kennett and Bruce Winterhalder, eds., Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture (University of California Press, 2006).
- Tim Denham and Peter White, The emergence of agriculture: a global view (Routledge, 2007).
- B.W. Higman, How Food Made History (John Wiley & Sons, 2011).
- Jared Diamond, "The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race," Discover (May 1987): 64-66.
Lecture 6: Building Pyramids-
- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd, Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
- Gary M. Feinman and Linda Manzanilla, eds., Cultural Evolution: Contemporary Viewpoints (Springer, 2000).
- Allen W. Johnson, The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to AgrarianState (Stanford University Press, 2000).
- Ian Kujit, ed., Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Pub., 2000).
- Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel and Ofer Bar-Yosef, eds., the Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences (Springer, 2008).
- Craig A. Lockard, Societies, Networks, and Transitions: A Global History, Volume I (Cengage Learning, 2007). Part 1.
- Barry B. Powell, Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization (John Wiley & Sons, 2012).
- Amalia E. Gnandesikan, The Writing Revolution (John Wiley & Sons, 2011).
- Jean-Jacques Glassner, The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).
- Jack Goody, the Power of the Written Tradition (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000).
- Andrew Robinson, the Story of Writing (Thames & Hudson, Limited, 2007).
- Terence P. Moran, Introduction to the History of Communication: Evolutions & Revolutions (Peter Lang, 2010). Especially pages 75-108.
- Stephen D. Houston, ed., the First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
- William G. Roy, Making Societies: The Historical Construction of Our World (Pine Forge Press, 2001).
Lecture 7: There is no Justice in History-
- T. Douglas Price and Gary M. Feinman, eds., Foundations of Social Inequality (Springer, 1995).
- T. Douglas Price and Gary M. Feinman, eds., Pathways to Power: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality (Springer, 2010).
- Tracy L. Sweely, Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology (Routledge, 2003).
- Timothy K. Earle, How Chiefs Come to Power: The Political Economy in Prehistory (Stanford University Press, 1997).
- Jonathan Haas, From Leaders to Rulers (Springer, 2001).
- Diane Bolger, ed., A Companion to Gender Prehistory (John Wiley & Sons, 2012).
- Peter N. Stearns, Gender in World History (Routledge, 2000).
- Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Gender in History: Global Perspectives (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001).
- Teresa A. Meade & Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, eds., A companion to Gender History (Blackwell Publishing, 2004).
Lecture 8: The Direction of History
- Nayan Chanda, Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization (YaleUniversity Press, 2007).
- Wendy F. Kasinec and Michael A. Polushin, eds., expanding empires: cultural interaction and exchange in world societies from ancient to early modern times (Scholarly Resources, 2002).
- Michael Adas and Stuart B. Schwartz, World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Vol. 1 (HarperCollins Publishers, 1992).
- Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Penguin Press, 2008).
- Alan Beattie, False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World (Penguin Group, 2009).
- Glyn Davies and Julian Hodge Bank, A history of money: from ancient times to the present day (University of Wales Press, 2002).
- Jack Weatherford, The History of Money (Crown Publishing Group, 2009).
- Howard Means, Money & Power: The History of Business (John Wiley & Sons, 2002).
- Liviu C. Andrei, Money and Market In the Economy of All Times: Another World History of Money and Pre-Money Based Economies (Xlibris Corporation, 2011).
- David Graeber, Debt: the First 5,000 Years (Melville House Publishing, 2011).
- John R. McNeill and William H. McNeill, The Human Web: A Bird's-eye View of World History (W.W. Norton, 2003).
Lecture 9: Imperial Visions
- Eric H. Cline and Mark W. Graham, Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
- Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel, The Dynamics of Ancient Empires : State Power from Assyria to Byzantium(Oxford University Press, 2009).
- Will Slayter, Life/Death Rhythms of Ancient Empires - Climatic Cycles Influence Rule of Dynasties: A Predictable Pattern of Religion, War, Prosperity and Debt (Trafford Publishing, 2012).
- Eric H. Cline and Mark W. Graham, Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
- Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel, The Dynamics of Ancient Empires : State Power from Assyria to Byzantium(Oxford University Press, 2009).
- Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Princeton University Press, 2010).
- Timothy Parsons, The Rule of Empires:Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall (Oxford University Press, 2010).
- Herfried Munkler, Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient Rome to the United States(Polity, 2007).
- Susan E. Alcock, Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
- Thomas Harrison, ed., The Great Empires of the Ancient World (Getty Publications, 2009).
- Walter Scheidel, ed., Rome and China : comparative perspectives on ancient world empires (Oxford University Press, 2009).
- John E. Curtis and Nigel Tallis, ed., Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia (University of California Press, 2005).
- Grant Hardy and Anne Behnke Kinney, The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China(Greenwood Press, 2005).
Lecture 10: The Law of Religion
- Peter Watson, Ideas: a history from fire to Freud (Pheonix, 2006).
- Seth D. Kunin. ed., Theories of Religion: A Reader (Rutgers University Press, 2006).
- Robert N. Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Harvard University Press, 2011).
- Solomon A. Nigosian, World Religions: A Historical Approach (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008).
- Roberto Cipriani, Sociology of Religion: An Historical Introduction (Walter de Gruyter, 2000).
- John Bowker, World Religions: The great faiths explored & explained (DK Publishers, 2006).
- Willard Gurdon Oxtoby, A concise introduction to world religions (Oxford University Press, 2007).
- George Walsh, The Role the Religion in History (Transaction Publishers, 1998).
- Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, 3 Volumes (translated to English by Willard Trask and published by Chicago University Press, 1978-1991).
- William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Arc Manor, 2008 [1902]).
Lecture 11: The Discovery of Ignorance-
- Arun Bala, The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
- John Henry, The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
- Lisa Jardine, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution (Anchor Books, 2000).
- Jack Repcheck, Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began (Simon & Schuster, 2007).
- Margaret J. Osler, ed., Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
- Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 1996).
- Toby E. Huff, Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Lecture 12: The Marriage of Science and Empire-
- James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew, eds., Science and Empire in the Atlantic World (Routledge, 2008).
- Brett M. Bennett and Joseph M. Hodge, eds., Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970 (Palgrave McMillan, 2011).
- Jorge-Canizares-Esguerra, Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (Stanford University Press, 2006).
- George Vlahakis, Imperialism and Science: Social Impact and Interaction (ABC-CLIO, 2006).
- P. De Vos, “Natural History and the Pursuit of Empire”, Journal of World History, 17 (2006), 400-406.
- L. H. Brockway, Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens (Yale University Press, 2002 [1979]).
Lecture 13: The Capitalist Creed-
- Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton University Press, 2000).
- Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Penguin Press, 2008).
- Joyce Appleby, The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism (W. W. Norton, 2011).
- Thomas K. McCraw, Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions (Harvard University Press, 1997).
- Eric Hobsbawm, Age Of Capital 1848-1875 (Orion, 2010 [1975]).
- H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (Anchor, 2011).
- Eric H. Mielants, The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West" (Temple University Press, 2007).
- Eric Wright and Miles ranum, The Origins of Capitalism (BiblioBazaar, 2010).
- Ellen Meiksins Wood, The origin of capitalism: a longer view (Verso, 2002 [1999]).
- Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, And the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (M.E. Sharpe, 2006).
Lecture 14: The Wheels of Industry-
- Alfred W. Crosby, Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity’s Unappeasable Appetite for Energy (W. W. Norton & Company, 2006).
- Charles Moore, Understanding the Industrial Revolution (Routledge, 2000).
- Stewart Ross, the Industrial Revolution (Evans Brothers ltd., 2008).
- Peter Stearns, The Industrial Revolution in World History (Westview Press, 2007).
- Eric Hopkins, Industrialisation and Society: A Social History, 1830-1951 (Routledge, 2000).
- Steven King and Geoffrey Timmins Steven King and Geoffrey Timmins, Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution: English Economy and Society 1700-1850 (ManchesterUniversity Press, 2001).
- Jeff Horn, Leonard N. Rosenband and Merritt Roe Smith, eds., Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution (MIT Press, 2010).
- Nigel Smith, the Industrial Revolution (Evans Brothers ltd., 2009).
- Gavin Weightman, The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World 1776-1914 (Atlantic, 2007).
- Gavin Weightman, What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us (BBC Books, 2003).
- Jennifer L. Goloboy, ed., Industrial Revolution: People and Perspectives (ABC-CLIO, 2008).
Lecture 15: A Permanent Revolution-
- Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (Ofxford University Press, 2006).
- Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (New York: Viking, 2011).
- Joshua S. Goldstein, Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide (New York, N.Y.: Dutton, 2011)
- Mary S. Hartman, The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
- Michael Anderson, Approaches to the History of the Western Family 1500-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1980).
- Richard Wall, Tamara K. Hareven, Josef Ehmer, eds., Family History Revisited: Comparative Perspectives (Associated University Press, 2001).
Lecture 16: And They Lived Happily Ever After-
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus,1932).
- Darrin m. McMahon, Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006).
- Darrin m. McMahon, The Pursuit of Happiness: A History from the Greeks to the Present (Penguin Books, Limited, 2007).
- Richard Layard, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Penguin Group US, 2006).
- Nicholas P. White, a brief history of happiness (Blackwell Publishing, 2006).
- Sissela Bok, Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science (Yale University Press, 2011).
- Gregg Easterbrook, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse (Random House, 2003).
- E. Diener, & M. Suh, eds, Culture and Subjective Well-Being (MIT Press, 2000).
- Charles Kenny, " Were People in the Past Poor and Miserable?" Kyklos, 59:2 (2006): 275-306.
Lecture 17: The End of Homo Sapiens-
- Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking, 2005).
- Asher Seidel , Inhuman thoughts : philosophical explorations of posthumanity (Lexington Books, 2008).
- Ervin Laszlo, Quantum shift in the global brain : how the new scientific reality can change us and our world (Inner Traditions, 2008).
- John Leslie, The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction (Taylor & Francis, 2002).
- Nicholas Agar, Humanity's end: why we should reject radical enhancement (MIT Press, 2010).
- Joel Garreau, Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human (Crown Publishing Group, 2005).