Your Intelligence Makeover by Edward F. Droge

Author:Edward F. Droge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FREE PRESS
Published: 2005-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Resources for Further Exploration

READING

General Resources and Relevant Books

Crampton, R. J. Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997.

Linz, Juan, and Alfred Stepan. The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Moore, Barrington, Jr. The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.

Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation: Political and Economic Origins of OurTime. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.

Ponting, Clive. World History: A New Perspective. London: Chatto and Windus, 2000.

Spielvogel, Jackson J. Western Civilization, vols. 1 and 2. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2002.

Classics

Descartes, René. Meditations. Translated by Desmond Clark. New York: Penguin, 1999.

Herodotus. The Histories (This edition titled The Histor y). Translated by David Grene. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Locke, John. “The True End of Civil Governement.” In Locke: Two Treatises of Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince. New York: Signet, 1999.

Montaigne, Michel de. Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays. Translated and edited by M. A. Screech. New York: Penguin, 1993.

Plato. The Republic. Translated by Desmond Lee. New York: Viking, 1976.

Plutarch. Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, vol. 1. New York: Modern Library, 2001.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract. Translated by Maurice Cranston. New York: Penguin, 1968.

Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. Translated by Steven Lattimore. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998.

Near-Classic

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. New York: Penguin, 2001.

USSR (Atrocities)

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander I . The Gulag Archipelago. Abridged by Edward E. Erickson, Jr. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

Leading Personalities

Cracraft, James. The Revolution of Peter the Great. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Rossabi, Morris. Khubilai Khan, His Life and Times. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990.

Strachey, Lytton. Queen Victoria. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 1983.

Histories of Countries

DeBary, William Theodore, et al., eds. Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. 1. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

Duggan, Christopher. A Concise History of Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Evtuhov, Catherine, et al., eds. A History Of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events,Forces. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Freeze, Gregory. Russia, A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Hansen, Valerie. The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Hoffmann, Stanley, et al. In Search of France. New York: Harper, 1963.

Hume, David. The History of England, vols. 1 to 6. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1985.

Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. New York: Penguin, 1997.

Morgan, Kenneth O., ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Orlow, Dietrich. A History of Modern Germany: 1871 to Present. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1987.

Perkin, Harold. The Origins of Modern English Society, 1780-1880. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.

Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. A History of Russia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Ropp, Paul S., ed. Heritage of China: Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civilization. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990.

Stone, Lawrence. The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642. New York: Harper, 1972.

The Middle Ages

Geary, Patrick J. Readings in Medieval History. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 1989.

Howarth, David. 1066: The Year of Conquest. New York: Viking, 1981.

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